For instance, follow fewer accounts, or at least use the Favorites feature to concentrate on the ones most valuable to you.
When you go to ig, switch your feed to Following or Favorites so all you see is what you want, in normal chronological order, instead of ads and promoted posts that never end.
Turn off the like count for your posts, too
Social media now is set up to benefit the app companies. The apps prioritize engagement, not enjoyment. You have to work around that, unfortunately.
I follow friends/family members, bands I like, and some people in Gaza. I donât see any reels or suggested posts or anything else Meta wants to force on us. I run out of posts to look at in maybe ten minutes.
I wonât discourage anyone from deleting ig, but it is possible to make it useful and enjoyable (at least for now).
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Concentrate on accounts you follow, and expect to run out of things to look at. Avoid âfor youâ and âsuggested posts/videosâ - when youâre out of Following posts, youâre done :)
People have said the internet is full of horrors, and I know thatâs true, but I havenât experienced it. Thatâs not to brag, just to show itâs possible! And I have spent my time on Tumblr, Reddit, pre-Musk Twitter, YouTube, instagram.
Link goes to a post with specific advice for IG and YouTube. I donât think Twitter can be used this way anymore, and you will have junk shoved into your feed no matter what.
Maybe start fresh with new accounts to reset everything, too
Mar 2, 2025
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itâs so horrible for your brain and self image and iâm sure itâs just gotten more hellish since 2016. i save photos i like to an album (u can now add captions to photos on iphone) that is my social media for myself. and i also just text people or more often wait for them to text me since im bad at reaching out. i truly do not miss it at all.
i however am not perfect and will do my share of doomscrolling on youtube shorts which is bad for my brain but at least doesnt affect my self esteem since there is no community of my peers, i feel no urge to post, and the algorithm is so bad nothing is ever very targeted/relevant. you will be surprised how quickly you stop thinking and wondering about it and how good and free it will make you feel, i have quite literally never looked back.
Mar 3, 2025
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1) i realized some time ago that alot of social media, with whatever algorithm they use, will try their best to push whats most popular to you. No matter if itâs positive or negative. So while Im on insta, I tend to delete the app and redownload it a day later when I catch them doing that. Itâs like a mini reset but not really. But alongside that, i have made the conscious effort not to doomscroll and to dislike and report posts/comments/videos that are willfully harmful and spread misinformation.
2) i look back into the areas where i spent a lot of time online as a child when i didnât have social media. And that place was Youtube and rewatching comfort shows and finding new outlets that don't trigger me. Sometimes thatâs finding people online that only have like 5k subscribers. The other well known site that doesnât have awful people on there is Pinterest đ i never had an awful time on there outside of the ads
3) like i am the child of the house, i limit the content on my phone. On the Iphone at least you can set timers to how long you have been on an app each day and block certain websites.
Jan 19, 2025
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The occupation persists, the oppression persists, the torture persists.
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People whoâve paid attention wonât be surprised by this photo from Gaza.
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Give people like jilly a break!
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