Reddit refugees: Did your productivity increase now that you are not lurking on Reddit?

Yes, at least for the couple of days before I found Lemmy. But I did realize that I need to keep myself out of the 'news stream' for focused productivity. So much of what I see during the day doesn't even matter and yet I let it become top-of-mind too quickly. I don't need to be wasting brainpower on so many things that come into my awareness in a day, and our minds are always looking for distractions. The past few days have galvanized my resolve to remove myself from that stream. The balance is just 'I need to be informed, and I need to be knowledgeable' but not 'I need article headlines screaming at me all day how the world is ending'.