Escape the Algorithm

charlie

charlie

Real Bebopper
I’m making this thread because I’ve decided I’d like to escape the algorithm.

I made my first Facebook account in 2009 or something, and I’ve been making and deleting accounts ever since. Perhaps I’ve always known how destructive the Facebook algorithmo-metaverse is but maybe I’ve never had adequate substitutions or proper mental resolve… so after I spend some time off of instagram or facebook, after a while I just end up making another account.

Now that I’ve been more active on web fora like this one, I have again decided to escape the algorithm, but this time will be different.

Ever since the election, instagram has descended into a /pol/-tier slop feed of india-hate reels, gore, antisemautism and just about everything else you see on /pol/, so now I’m pretty fed up with instagram and whatnot…


So here we are.


Post your experiences with big social media sites!!
Do you use any ? Do you reject them and tell others to do the same?

Are you on any other web fora?
 
I had a twitter account a few years back I mostly used it for finding memes, but something about the site just sucked the life right out of me though not nearly as much as others. i had a similar experience when I was younger and made a instagram account for talking with family from far away, but something made me delete my account and never go back. its more fun to meet and talk in person or via text. also asking a person what they've been up to as opposed to viewing or expecting to have viewed a post provides much more connection.

I find telling people to avoid social media is not the most effective.
telling others I don't have social media is what I like to do because monkey see monkey do. "he doesn't use social media and he's not, not isolated/not engaged" is what i want people to think so they don't fall into the trap.
its pretty effective, I like to shill sleeping on the floor and its gotten many others to try it as well.
 
Used to hang out with those Tumblr-using types from around the web because I thought that they would be welcoming to an autist like myself like they usually claim. I was also a fairly open-minded person who would be kind to anyone and tend to not judge others no matter who they are. Turns out that these people took advantage of my kindness and used it to further their own rhetoric thats been personalized on their feeds as well as using such to just cause petty drama. It got so bad, especially when COVID first surfaced, that I fell into a very bad depression that lasted for months. As soon as I figured that a combination of algorithm personalization and sensationalist material thats promoted to get people angry so they can create more posts and page views on such topics is what’s tainting the centralized web, I knew I had to fucking get out of there. This shit not only made people miserable, but actively motivated people to engage in each other’s misery, and that fucking terrified me.
 
I still have my first and only facebook account but don't really use it. Keeping it just so family members know I'm alive
I deleted my instagram account but made a new one a while back just so I can keep contact with one of my friends (yes just one friend) but I don't really use it for other than that
I've been thinking to delete twitter as well. I just browse it when I have nothing to do but it's really just a big waste of time
I used to waste a lot of time on tiktok during the pandemic a few years back but I deleted it long ago and haven't used it ever since
I admit that I do use pinterest a lot. I find a lot of cool pictures, memes and all my profile pictures I use are from there. But I do think this is the least harmful one from everything I listed so far

Leaving social media seems hard because your brain is so stimulated from it and it's just an addiction at this point that you need to fight like any other addiction. I've been thinking to take a break from the internet in general. I want to use my computer mainly for work and maybe browse some forums from time to time and use my phone mainly for calls and taking photos. Spending time on social media gotta be the biggest waste of your precious time but that's just part of the daily life of most of us now
 
i used to browse those apps every day with the intellectual understanding of the emptiness and destructiveness of it but still i was there every time scrolling

like they hosted something so begging to be seen that would prevent me from falling behind the world or missing out on crucial information- that was the clawing at the back of my head before i opened the app but without fail i came out of the session feeling robbed, without practical benefit and having damaged my spirit

this experience or some variation is absurdly common and everyone just abides by it for one reason or another, it's very evil and intentional and knowing this nature of it often isn't enough to get you out but we do what we can

so i am trying to use web fora more, open to recommendations
 
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