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chronological feeds on social media are a dying breed and it's so important to maintain the ones you still have
Apr 7, 2025
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@NIRAD that is crazy i legit thought they had abolished the chronological feed completely ty
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Youtube for sure, but any other site you can tell is burdened by nostalgia you don’t actually want to watch/see. A world where we simply ignore the explore pages and truly just see the stuff we choose to see doesn’t exist because of ads BUT at least now my list of subscriptions is shortish, actually searchable, and accurate to my taste.
P.S. This rec also applies to the socials of people you knew in high school or college or some other weird phase of your long and varied life! We should be able to just move away and never be seen again without the assistance of a PI.
Jan 16, 2025
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it feels so good to watch content you actually do wanna watch.
i regularly clean my following list. i only follow good friends and i only follow influencers, who dont make me want to die after watching their content. personally i hate those clean girl aesthetic influencers or those people who show off their bodies that look heavily edited. thats just not real life at all. i always felt bad about myself after seeing someone be so skinny or so strong. but those influencers never tell you their journey. they never tell you how to get there, and they certainly never tell you that it isnt real. they only show you their best side and it looks like theyre like that at all times 24/7. i mean, i get it. especially instagram can get soo toxic, that you dont want to show your real self.
or those influencers that try to sell you stuff youll probably never ever need in your life. i see those amazon finds tiktoks on my fyp and i think to myself: who the fuck needs those products? you almost always can use different things you already have in your home.
on tiktok i also click on not interested every time i see a tiktok im not interested in. if you click on details you can actually decide what irks you about it and give a reason why you dont want that on your fyp. and if you encounter someone really negative, block them.
normalise blocking people and accounts, please. i found so many racists and homophobes on my fyp, and i really do not need that. blocked. i never have to see them again. it really is that easy.
i genuinly advise you, that you follow people who teach you stuff. especially if its your interest or hobby. learning by watching random videos or posts on your feed is sooo much better than having an existential crisis.
i follow cleo abram on youtube for example. she makes positive science content and i really enjoy it. and i follow kurzgesagt, too. its better instead of watching videos that tell you nothing gets better or makes you insecure. that only destroys your day.
im not telling you to only listen to self help podcasts or only watch those mental health influencers, not at all. if thats not your cup of tea, than dont do that.
i just want to tell you guys that cleaning your feeds really is good for your mental health. and ive always said that.
May 1, 2024
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obviously just uninstalling the apps help, but that's easier said than done because we usually have a reason we're using social media in the first place.
changing the way you receive information is really the key. the problem with social media is primarily that it trains you to have a passive role in receiving information / art / media, and that's what makes it possible for it to suck so much of your time away.
- for news, download an rss reader and actively seek out and follow some writers and publications you trust
- for events, subscribe to local newsletters. many venues have them, and if they don't, there's typically a local publication that has one specifically for events.
- for communication, just try to get the numbers of people you'd otherwise DM, or better yet, just start a discord (or something similar) for your friend group. my friend group has one, and it basically functions as our collective twitter feed.
i could give more specific advice if i knew your particular use case, but those three things alone will get you a long way.
Aug 27, 2024
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spent the last two weeks working on an interactive guide, recommendations database, and digital library (link depot) to help get people off of social media. the first draft is done now, and it's at the link to this post.
it's still very much a work in progress (the library is especially thin atm) - which is why i wanted to share it here before unleashing it upon my IRL friends and the general public. i welcome any and all feedback, bug reports, and suggestions for things to add. i will be pushing updates to it out like a madman in the coming weeks, so be sure to check back every so often to see new additions to the database and library.
additionally, i am still on the hunt for newsletters from local venues / community organizations / magazines / newspapers, etc. the only cities i have remotely covered so far are nyc, orlando, denver, brisbane, and little bits of worcester and chicago. if you know anything in your area that fits the bill, send it my way!
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it is your civic duty to mercilessly mock generative ai users as much as possible
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it ’s so bad that discourse about it being bad is kind of played out now but it bears repeating how fucking bad it is
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