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The Benefits of Digital Minimalism (thenewoil.org)
6 points by devonnull on April 27, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Digital minimalism? IRC, Usenet, Gopher, Gemini, Mail, RSS. Fetched with isync/slrnpull/offpunk in order to be read online across a day or a week. Gopher://magical.fish, gopher://sdf.org and gemini://gemi.dev as news starting points. No doomscroll, no crappy social media if you want, no notifications.


I'm aware of about half of those things and have the luxury of using none of them, along with zero social media except HN, which I'm alternately warm and cool on as it is. I realize I use it more when I'm feeling shaky about my sense of purpose for the day. Makes sense that I treat the symptoms with bursts of low-effort dopamine, but I usually find I'd rather have gone for a walk.




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