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this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2025
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A community which focusses on improving yourself. This can be in many different ways - from improving physical health or appearance, to improving mental health, creating better habits, overcoming addictions, etc.
While material circumstances beyond our control do govern much of our daily lives, people do have agency and choices to make, whether that is as "simple" as disciplining yourself to not doomscroll, to as complex as recreating yourself to have many different hobbies and habits.
This is not a place where all we do is talk about improving "productivity" (in a workplace context) and similar terms and harmful lifestyles like "grindset". Self-improvement here is intended to make you a generally better and happier person, as well as a better communist, and any other roles you may have in your life.
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- Posts should be about self-improvement. This is obviously a wide category, and can range from advice, to finding resources, to self-posts about needing to improve in a certain area, or how you have improved, and many other things.
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For your phone, you can try to buy a shitty smartphone that's 7+ years old. It can receive text, but browsing will be a completely miserable experience.
There's also RSS readers. Once I started using them, it turns out a lot of my time browsing was wasted by essentially refreshing a page because of FOMO and getting sidetracked by what the algo wants me to see. With RSS feeds, you won't really miss out things and the algorithm won't affect you anymore because everything just goes to a local RSS feeder.
Most social media sites try to prevent you from setting up RSS feeds because they want you to use their site where you'll be subject to their algorithm, but almost all sites have ways around that. For Reddit, you can set up RSS feeds through old.reddit.com. There's a Firefox extension called Awesome RSS that checks if a website has RSS set up.