You wouldn't host your community in a casino.
Addictive algorithms, amplified hateful content, doomscrolling. It's time to call social media what it is: dangerous.
As a society, we need to work harder to detangle ourselves from these places and the behaviour they encourage.
How are you creating distance between yourself and harmful social media?
#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Addictive #AntiBigTech #Algorithms #Tech #Fediverse #Mastodon
I am moving all my accounts and other needs to Open Source - including iOS and payment stuff, to stop the datagrab which has v negative environmental impacts on op of the Casino issue you put so well.
I am skillsharing the journey, motivating my community to join me.
I am finding its such a release and level up every step of the way, it's all downhill after the first step.
Just take any step, rly.
Change is constant, might as well get on board ;)
@newsmast Some think I'm crazy but I can't handle the smart screens. Had to downgrade to a flip 📞
@newsmast How to stay of harmfull (anti-)social media is an interesting question, but I’m unsure if I can contribute or not.
Except for short stints on LJ and Tumbler I’ve never really contributed material (i.e. worked for free) to anything of the big ones.
As for shallow consumption I’ve had an unhealthy relationship to YouTube for years, but sometime late last fall I decided to just drop it, and so far that’s been easier than I thought it’d be.
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Only noticeable effect is I tend to read more now.
Turns out all those books I’ve collected over the years, hoping they’d somehow teach me things just by some magic aura caused by their physical presence, actually had interesting text in them. Who would have known, right!?
Books really are magical things!
