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reading a communist newspaper does not automatically make u a communist, & listening to redscare does not automatically make u a new-right contrarian (if that's a burn i meant it but i still love them). there is something to be said about getting informed in this gen-z-ish way as it avoids bourgeois news media that is untrustworthy for obvious reasons & also instagram & tik tok political content that can never possibly tell the whole story and is often misinformed itself. and instead of posting infographics get actually involved in your community in ways that matter to you! social media and identity politics are fleeting but knowledge & connection & respecting other people's opinions even if u disagree (there's a line here obvs if someone is actively racist/homophobic/transphobic that's a different story) are so invaluable and deeply human and rare in our times. lets bring these things back its our only hope ❤️🩹
May 4, 2025
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in the age of endless access to information, the unknown can quickly become known - though i think we've reached a point where balance is desperately needed. our brains are sensitive and absorbing information constantly whether we like it or not. i recently deleted social media from my phone and now only log on at the computer (love how many pi.fyi recs i've seen on this) - anyways i finally joined the club and see no going back. i don't want to know everything about everyone all the time and on top of that be plagued with intrusive ads (no matter how relevant they may or may not be). being present is crucial, and watching other people's lives on our phones whenever we want can definitely take one out of the present. if i were a true conspiracy theorist, i'd say it almost seems strategically designed to interrupt our normal train of thoughts and give everybody add and make us less thoughtful or make us stray from our true path. i think there's an art to boredom and liminal zones. if you're in a doctor's office waiting room or in a coffee shop waiting for your drink, i think its cool to just be nothing for a moment, limbo is a luxury and giving your consciousness and attention to something every second strips you of that temporary feeling...
if we're homies and not seeing each other in person we can text about our lives. instagram stories have begun to creep me out, i don't like how normalized casual stalking has become. i feel like it makes everyone overly analytical and constantly thinking about social dynamics all the time, injecting way too many forms of micro-anxieties for everyone throughout the day - there's value in time spent alone with our thoughts and i feel like the status quo of social media and internet without boundaries at the moment is infringing on some timeless human functions. that said we need to connect and find out about things and discover each other and using platforms like pi.fyi and instagram allow us to do so, we just need to be mindful about how we go about it. i think it's okay to not know everything all the time, mystery creates intrigue and that's stimulating enough for me...
Jun 8, 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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I’ve been limiting Instagram for a while, there was a good 3 months where I did check it at all and now I do every couple days for a few minutes. I’m also going to do that with TikTok and if I need to get hot/wholesome/random takes I’ll just get on here.
A lot of people say they need Instagram to get their news, but for me it makes way more sense to listen to the radio, subscribe to email blasts, and just look at publications I respect now and again.
Nov 11, 2024
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