Go at it neighbor. I'm shortly out of here, too. I might not be back for 3 to 4 weeks at a time.
I usually have a spate of reading and hacking, then disappear to work for money for weeks or even a couple months with no Internet access at all. I always feel better a few days after getting away from the Internet.
Sometimes I will write code on a box with no Internet connection, and work on a program for 2 or 3 days without ever getting online. I keep all the reference materials stored locally and in hard copies so I don't need to surf to get answers.
It takes a bit of advance planning but it works great for me.
I also don't announce to my friends or followers that I'm taking time off. I just do it then say hello when I return. Those who know me get it. If I am not answering the phone, it means the phone is off or I left it at home.
If I were a tech or software dev hiring manager, I would automatically reject all applications coming from free email services like gmail, protonmail, tutanota, outlook, etc. A nerd or hacker should already have their own domain name and email server, or institutional email account.
Also, using a free email service for any personal business is a HUGE data security risk, not just for the applicant, but for the company responding to the applicant. State agencies can snarf such communications to glean inside business information, then sell that information to your competitors, which is probably happening somewhere right now as I write this.
If I were in your shoes I would unfollow and put the computer in the closet for a few weeks. The timeline model is dopamine, cortisol, and adrenaline addictive, so I understand the drive to read everything in your feed.
I have given some thought to this. The problem is that the social platforms automatically pull in feeds of replies to the profiles that one follows. There needs to be a default option to refrain from fetching any of that, and let the others opt in.
I am already tired of it. I can't count how many pieces of porn have showed up in my feed in the past couple of days. It is like running around to put out a brush fire just to block those accounts.
I believe that the original poster of a thread should be the moderator of that thread network-wide. That is one step in the right direction. If you start a thread, you can moderate it, either by default, or by delete, whichever flag you choose.
Coupling that with only pulling the posts of your follows would eliminate the lion's share of the noise.
Another way is to follow the RSS feeds of profiles you like, as you will only see their posts in the RSS reader. Then you don't even log in to the social site unless you want to comment. Usually RSS readers will have a link to the post you are reading so you can click the link and then comment, and return to the RSS feed list. QuiteRSS works well for me.
If the negativity and information overload is getting you down it is time for a break!
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AI is garbage. AI and big tech are not valid sources of medical advice or health information. These are the same demonic and moronic tards who had an army of brutes, baristas and forklift drivers taking people's temperature with infrared guns to check for 'disease'. Blocked.
Awesome! I'll test it when it goes out to main. Will you be able to decouple the rss entry number from max_timeline_entries? That is not critical but it would be helpful for pulling bigger feeds over the number of web interface entries.
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