Like I know this isn't a shock to anyone. But it's a super surprise to me. So since 2011 I was really busy with various educational or work stuff, and never had time to log in. When I did log in to post something random for family to see, I had that Fluffbusters extension that cuts out the extra shit that Meta adds to your feed.

So recently I was forced to use the FB app to do some IRL stuff related to Palestine. Holy shit the unfiltered site is garbage. You have to scroll through 10 or so unrelated pages to see your friends' posts. And the sheer volume of paid Israeli stuff is mind blowing, despite me trying to tell the algorithm that I don't like it. And despite me being friends with and liking shitloads of ML stuff, I keep getting Unilad level "let's save a bunch of puppies" content. Like I get why people who use traditional social media become liberals or worse, I even found myself becoming a bit more lib looking at it.

    • nothx [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Encrypted chats or a private fediverse service with carefully correlated list of federated instances.

      I really don’t understand the incessant need to have constant connectivity to a large social media platform. Keep to yourself and the group of friends you actually care about, all the extra assholes you tangentially knew from school aren’t worth pretending to keep in touch with.

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        preach.

        also, I like passively cultivating an air of mystery around myself. "whatever happened to [my name]? does he still watch a lot of TV?"

        they can assume, but they'll never know for sure.

        • nothx [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          Yes! Being an enigma is very fun, no one expects me to say I don’t use any mainstream social media.

    • someone [comrade/them, they/them]
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      8 months ago

      Unironically, Tiktok. If you're careful to make extensive use of the like button you can train the algorithm to be scary-accurate in just a few active hours of using it. And there's a lot of socialist and anticolonialist content on there.