I concur with the other two respondents. I came upon this post after searching up “stop doom scrolling” because I have been doing far too much of that on Lemmy. I started scanning your article and have bookmarked it for a more focused read later but at first blush, I don’t think the Fediverse or RSS is a solution. Not in and of themselves.

Same search, different post, lead me to a book: The Shallows - What the Internet is doing to our brains, by Nicholas Carr. Added to my reading list but first impression from the synopsis is that the medium shapes how we think and behave. Our brains are being shaped to jump from snippet to snippet. Concentrated linear thinking is eroded.

My gathering impression is that avoiding doom scrolling is about being intentional in our interactions with content and I suspect that is your point in the linked article. RSS may be a way to support “intentionality” because once you have scanned your curated list of content, you are done. That only works if you have built the habit of not then skipping to the next “channel” to scan some more.

Thanks for creating the article and posting it. You have helped me think on this more deeply.