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Attempting a digital diet.

Sun Feb 14 19:17:21 PST 2021

I'm thinking of trying a sort-of digital media diet. Lurking in geminispace and reading about the articles that people have up in their own capsules have made me realize how much I have been skipping paragraphs when reading articles. Perhaps it's something that I've gotten used to when browsing a ``mixed media'' site like in the web.

However, being presented with just text, and the occassional image links, made me realize how less of a reader I have become. Well, I'm not certainly a prolific reader per se. But my amount of ``reading tolerance'' have clearly decreased.

Partly I blame it on youtube but mostly I blame it on myself. I've been in this constant tussle between quitting and consuming internet video for a good while now and it's certainly the last ``social media'' that I've yet to quit out of. Now, thinking about it, I have a renewed sense of empathy to people older than me that got hooked on just watching the TV. Because for me, right now, internet video is my TV.

So, I'll attempt to do a digital diet for atleast a week. What that means is that I will try to not consume any video from youtube or otherwise and will just limit myself to three forms of recreational media: (1) podcasts, (2) gemini sites and (3) music.

Let's see how far can I go.