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Youtube for sure, but any other site you can tell is burdened by nostalgia you donāt actually want to watch/see. A world where we simply ignore the explore pages and truly just see the stuff we choose to see doesnāt 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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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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Concentrate on accounts you follow, and expect to run out of things to look at. Avoid āfor youā and āsuggested posts/videosā - when youāre out of Following posts, youāre done :)
People have said the internet is full of horrors, and I know thatās true, but I havenāt experienced it. Thatās not to brag, just to show itās possible! And I have spent my time on Tumblr, Reddit, pre-Musk Twitter, YouTube, instagram.
Link goes to a post with specific advice for IG and YouTube. I donāt think Twitter can be used this way anymore, and you will have junk shoved into your feed no matter what.
Maybe start fresh with new accounts to reset everything, too
Mar 2, 2025
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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 itās 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. Itās 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 didnāt have social media. And that place was Youtube and rewatching comfort shows and finding new outlets that don't trigger me. Sometimes thatās finding people online that only have like 5k subscribers. The other well known site that doesnāt have awful people on there is Pinterest š 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.
Jan 19, 2025
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Iām sick of feeling powerless so my new coping strategy is to not let a stupid system bully me into quiet despair. Iām learning how to use my stateās General Assemblyās online bill tracker and Iām subscribing to email updates for the agendas and the public hearings of the legislative committees Iām most concerned about. Iām memorizing all my legislatorsā names and emailing and calling regularly.
Also: Check to see if your stateās Legislative Library has Libguides that explain in laymanās terms what bills are passing in your state and other educational/legislative resources you have freely available to you!!!
Nov 20, 2024
Apr 16, 2025
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Iām up in my bank account every week writing every transaction out in a spreadsheet and Iāve never been better with money in my whole life. Also helped me notice asap when a whole mess of fraudulent transactions slipped in while I was occupied moving and otherwise wouldnāt have seen them for a while. Itās absolutely more effective than a Mint budget tracker because you have to confront EVERY purchase and contemplate what actually has value to you.
Jan 6, 2025