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Rec'd on 📵 HABITS TO REPLACE DOOMSCROLLING WITH?

use the scroll time to instead educate yourself on the billionaires making money off of your life and attention with these apps (i.e. how much money they make per minute/post, how algorithms are made like slot machines, subliminal targeted ads between posts, etc.) and you will find yourself naturally disgusted/enraged every time you open those apps instead of ashamed/frustrated. it's difficult to pull yourself out of a scroll, but the more you practice, the easier it can become. highly recommend the yt vid that hazelisonline made on this!! good luck 🍻

@inabody

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actions I do to reduce social media consumption

1) i realized some time ago that alot of social media, with whatever algorithm they use, will try their best to push whats most popular to you. No matter if it’s positive or negative. So while Im on insta, I tend to delete the app and redownload it a day later when I catch them doing that. It’s like a mini reset but not really. But alongside that, i have made the conscious effort not to doomscroll and to dislike and report posts/comments/videos that are willfully harmful and spread misinformation. 2) i look back into the areas where i spent a lot of time online as a child when i didn’t have social media. And that place was Youtube and rewatching comfort shows and finding new outlets that don't trigger me. Sometimes that’s finding people online that only have like 5k subscribers. The other well known site that doesn’t have awful people on there is Pinterest 😂 i never had an awful time on there outside of the ads 3) like i am the child of the house, i limit the content on my phone. On the Iphone at least you can set timers to how long you have been on an app each day and block certain websites.

@chiawase_

Jan 19, 2025

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replace your generalized algorithmic feeds with specific curated ones

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.

@dotmatrices

Aug 27, 2024

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Avoiding algorithms

First, bookmark your subscriptions page on YouTube and always start there. Don’t look at the front page, don’t look at the side bar, turn off autoplay. Second, on the Instagram app always start by touching the IG logo at the top left and choosing Following. This removes all suggestions (and even ads in my experience) from your feed. I think it puts it in chronological order, too. The internet is full of fun, creative and interesting stuff! Take back some control so that’s the stuff you see.