Well put, its a sign of personal growth to realise you don't need that PoS news cycle garbage in your life to mess with your brains reward system.

as a professional like you however, there are other considerations to make as well. there is still a great dependency on these centralized platforms.

Posting first on Nostr helps and putting the most interesting stuff here helps pulling people in  

but reducing media intake overall is very healthy and not old fashioned at all.