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Made a post down below. I scroll for like two minutes before seeing anything local in my town. I only use it to volunteer at places in my town, and it literally

Made a post down below. I scroll for like two minutes before seeing anything local in my town. I only use it to volunteer at places in my town, and it literally showed over 100+ suggested/Follow/sponsored things, the addon I used collapses it all. Dead internet theory. AI generated stuff. Busted algorithms, and attention-soul sucking 'pull me in' psychological warfare ad induced stuff. We need to reclaim our sanity from doom scroll/infinite scrolling. I have it in my /etc/hosts file to be blocked unless I'm at a computer that requires me to log in.

archerx 2y ago
I don’t know what is going on at Meta but they are killing their cash cow. I don’t mind the Youtube algorithm, it used to be better but it’s still good enough. I don’t use Youtube with an account so I have gotten good at “training” it and getting it to show stuff I’m actually interested in. The X algorithm is not bad either, if I post art related stuff it will only show me art related stuff.
- mrinfinitiesx 2y ago
  I removed the finger-printing from my browser with degoogle: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle - Alternatives to google/other big platforms. Firefox addons at the top. I scream this and my love for Linux from the rooftops, hoping other people show the love for the internet and things like I do and don't put up with the exploitation. It's _OUR_ psychyes and their psychological manipulation, and our future generations they're going after. And you can check your fingerprints with: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ that has a adtrack company that openly shows how it fingerprints you, with WebGL, canvas'ing, timestamps. I have the random timestamp addon, random user-agents, canvas blocker, exfil data, Ublock origin. The 0.0.0.0 day 'Port Scanner' -> https://github.com/garywill/LAN-port-scan-forbidder https://github.com/garywill/LAN-port-scan-forbidder Yeah, they can use JS to ping stuff on our LANs to fingerprint too. It's an internet hellscape out there. Most people don't care. I do.
  - eddyg 2y ago
    > I removed the finger-printing from my browser Out of curiosity, does it successfully block https://fingerprint.com/ https://fingerprint.com/?
- input_sh 2y ago
  > The X algorithm is not bad either, if I post art related stuff it will only show me art related stuff. Highly disagree. I'm down to one hyperspecific account that follows hundreds of people, and my "for you" page might as well be someone else's. Literally nothing there matches the purpose of the account. I'm also convinced that clicking "not interested" doesn't do anything because every time I click it, I can just refresh the tab and see the exact same tweet all over again.
  - PaulHoule 2y ago
    A “dislike button” that really worked on social media would overturn their business completely.
  - Sylamore 2y ago
    Likewise I am convinced the "not interested" option does nothing, now I just straight block those pages/people when it shows up - the algorithm will send me another of nearly the same content but I keep blocking them and now a lot of that content is gone from my timeline, but FB is really convinced I want to see non-stop steam/model train and WWII content.
  - archerx 2y ago
    The account I’m using doesn’t follow anybody and the feed it gets is all art picture posts, I think not following people keeps the feed pure of outside influence. Also I rarely like posts, only really beautiful images so that probably has an influence as well. I really like what this account shows me but it is a special and narrow case.
- SpicyLemonZest 2y ago
  The Facebook news feed has always focused on random nonsense, ever since they first introduced algorithmic ranking. I think one of the main things going on is that they've decided - probably correctly - that Instagram is a better fit for what people want social media to be going forwards.
  - archerx 2y ago
    Well they ruined Instagram too, no one posts anymore, post reach has been crippled and it really wants to show you crap you don’t care about. Now they want you to use threads with pictures. And in like you just reinvented Instagram but worst, what’s the point?

archerx 2y ago

I don’t know what is going on at Meta but they are killing their cash cow. I don’t mind the Youtube algorithm, it used to be better but it’s still good enough. I don’t use Youtube with an account so I have gotten good at “training” it and getting it to show stuff I’m actually interested in. The X algorithm is not bad either, if I post art related stuff it will only show me art related stuff.

mrinfinitiesx 2y ago
I removed the finger-printing from my browser with degoogle: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle - Alternatives to google/other big platforms. Firefox addons at the top. I scream this and my love for Linux from the rooftops, hoping other people show the love for the internet and things like I do and don't put up with the exploitation. It's _OUR_ psychyes and their psychological manipulation, and our future generations they're going after. And you can check your fingerprints with: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ that has a adtrack company that openly shows how it fingerprints you, with WebGL, canvas'ing, timestamps. I have the random timestamp addon, random user-agents, canvas blocker, exfil data, Ublock origin. The 0.0.0.0 day 'Port Scanner' -> https://github.com/garywill/LAN-port-scan-forbidder https://github.com/garywill/LAN-port-scan-forbidder Yeah, they can use JS to ping stuff on our LANs to fingerprint too. It's an internet hellscape out there. Most people don't care. I do.
- eddyg 2y ago
  > I removed the finger-printing from my browser Out of curiosity, does it successfully block https://fingerprint.com/ https://fingerprint.com/?
input_sh 2y ago
> The X algorithm is not bad either, if I post art related stuff it will only show me art related stuff. Highly disagree. I'm down to one hyperspecific account that follows hundreds of people, and my "for you" page might as well be someone else's. Literally nothing there matches the purpose of the account. I'm also convinced that clicking "not interested" doesn't do anything because every time I click it, I can just refresh the tab and see the exact same tweet all over again.
- PaulHoule 2y ago
  A “dislike button” that really worked on social media would overturn their business completely.
- Sylamore 2y ago
  Likewise I am convinced the "not interested" option does nothing, now I just straight block those pages/people when it shows up - the algorithm will send me another of nearly the same content but I keep blocking them and now a lot of that content is gone from my timeline, but FB is really convinced I want to see non-stop steam/model train and WWII content.
- archerx 2y ago
  The account I’m using doesn’t follow anybody and the feed it gets is all art picture posts, I think not following people keeps the feed pure of outside influence. Also I rarely like posts, only really beautiful images so that probably has an influence as well. I really like what this account shows me but it is a special and narrow case.
SpicyLemonZest 2y ago
The Facebook news feed has always focused on random nonsense, ever since they first introduced algorithmic ranking. I think one of the main things going on is that they've decided - probably correctly - that Instagram is a better fit for what people want social media to be going forwards.
- archerx 2y ago
  Well they ruined Instagram too, no one posts anymore, post reach has been crippled and it really wants to show you crap you don’t care about. Now they want you to use threads with pictures. And in like you just reinvented Instagram but worst, what’s the point?