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Yep. “You’re not curating your feed” is nonsense in 2022, and it has been for years. The only platform I’ve gotten close to this on is Instagram. Facebook and T

Yep. “You’re not curating your feed” is nonsense in 2022, and it has been for years. The only platform I’ve gotten close to this on is Instagram. Facebook and Twitter both exhibit the literally cancerous property of showing you what your contacts are engaging with. Once a social network does that, it’s basically game over unless you only connect with people who are similarly disciplined, which is just…untenable.

rhaway84773 4y ago
My Instagram feed is curated because it’s entirely for cat images and cat rescues, which for better or worse, there’s an over abundance of on the internet, so Instagram will never really need to start putting random depressing stuff on my feed. Everything else I’m off of. A necessary first step for my social media detox was deleting the apps. I started by only accessing them through the browser, so I wasn’t fully cut off, but I also didn’t have the fully curated experience that allows the social media platforms to really take over your senses.
ryanjshaw 4y ago
I don't follow this argument. If you are following people whose engagements are triggering for you, surely that is on you? I follow ~300 people on Twitter and I only see content from them, or things they like. I have no issues unfollowing overly political/negative/complaining people on Twitter (including what they 'like'), and my Twitter feed is full of people doing interesting things in the fields I'm interested in. Yes, sometimes this means you will need to stop following otherwise interesting people if they are net negative -- but I already do that IRL, so I don't see the issue. I don't have any other social media, so I don't know how their algorithms fare, but Twitter can definitely be curated with little to no effort.
zirgs 4y ago
There are some twitter clients that allow you to follow other users without an account. I use Fritter on Android. It doesn't show ads and it only shows tweets and replies of those people that you actually follow directly.

rhaway84773 4y ago

My Instagram feed is curated because it’s entirely for cat images and cat rescues, which for better or worse, there’s an over abundance of on the internet, so Instagram will never really need to start putting random depressing stuff on my feed. Everything else I’m off of. A necessary first step for my social media detox was deleting the apps. I started by only accessing them through the browser, so I wasn’t fully cut off, but I also didn’t have the fully curated experience that allows the social media platforms to really take over your senses.

ryanjshaw 4y ago

I don't follow this argument. If you are following people whose engagements are triggering for you, surely that is on you? I follow ~300 people on Twitter and I only see content from them, or things they like. I have no issues unfollowing overly political/negative/complaining people on Twitter (including what they 'like'), and my Twitter feed is full of people doing interesting things in the fields I'm interested in. Yes, sometimes this means you will need to stop following otherwise interesting people if they are net negative -- but I already do that IRL, so I don't see the issue. I don't have any other social media, so I don't know how their algorithms fare, but Twitter can definitely be curated with little to no effort.

zirgs 4y ago

There are some twitter clients that allow you to follow other users without an account. I use Fritter on Android. It doesn't show ads and it only shows tweets and replies of those people that you actually follow directly.