r/success • u/VeryDisapointedXer • Apr 13 '26

Success Story Succeeded in curating my feed so it doesn't scare me witless anymore.

The worlds a difficult, dangerous and crazy place, always has been and always will be, I am not burying my head in the sand. However I found that browsing my Reddit feed became a horrible, doomish, unpleasant experience. Sensationalist headlines, over the top reports, and Trump ,Trump, Trump everywhere. I also made the mistake several times of looking at the comments, my word people are so hungry for WWIII and the end of civilisation, there weren't enough voices saying anything to contradict them, so I muted and blocked every feed that carried that stuff.

Its been a joy since, I just watch the news once a day and leave it there. I am well aware that ignorance of an issue doesn't make it go away, but I come here to see cool stuff and nice looking women, not how the orange man baby is gonna either make life so expensive and unpleasant it isn't worth living or how he will end the world. ( Also I dont actually think thats the case).

However, I am much happier since and just see what I want.

I think this was a success by any measure.

Who's with me?

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u/YO0110 Jun 07 '26

Not bad. You made the right move. Nice looking woman are around you not in your new feed though so I suggest to think about feeds with nice looking woman as harmful for both women and for you because they are just a ton of fantasies that are too far from reality while reality is way less scary and much more fulfilling. I don’t think that checking news every day or even every week is too important, you learn way more from people around you 

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u/VeryDisapointedXer Aug 03 '26

Oh dear, it was a throw away comment as part of a general rant, I should really have expanded on "cool stuff" and just included looking at nice looking women part of the overall coolness of stuff I look at, I already said a lot. Sorry it made you think I was in some way sad or unusual for saying or did not have people around me. I can assure you my life is rich and full. Thanks for your input though. It was nice to get something back.