I disconnect from feeds when I encounter negativity. Also asking questions that don’t get answered well pushes me off of devices now. I like Lemmy, but this place is still somewhat limited in obscure technical capacity at any given moment. I don’t use google or fruit services at all and only use a phone for anything social, so I have no way to get lost in corporate social media black holes. I’m mostly in this position because I climbed out of that situation. They hire the best and brightest to put you into situations where you stay on platform in the first place. I am not in that elite social club. So my only choice is to obstain from contending with them in the first place.
YT through libretube/piped/newpipe functions better for searches and content discovery now if you do not use an account or limit subscriptions by subjects. Like I’m playing with AI stuff now. If I subscribe to a few channels in this space, I can clearly see my search results pool diminish into an echo chamber. If I delete all of my subscriptions in this space, or limit them to a few with proven academic credentials, it alters the quality of my search results substantially. The lack of a large block of videos I find peripherally interesting means I shift onto topics I am motivated to try, test, or take action on quickly. Also, watching an engineer talk math or white paper review content is much more likely to get me to just put down the device and try stuff myself.
I disconnect from feeds when I encounter negativity. Also asking questions that don’t get answered well pushes me off of devices now. I like Lemmy, but this place is still somewhat limited in obscure technical capacity at any given moment. I don’t use google or fruit services at all and only use a phone for anything social, so I have no way to get lost in corporate social media black holes. I’m mostly in this position because I climbed out of that situation. They hire the best and brightest to put you into situations where you stay on platform in the first place. I am not in that elite social club. So my only choice is to obstain from contending with them in the first place.
YT through libretube/piped/newpipe functions better for searches and content discovery now if you do not use an account or limit subscriptions by subjects. Like I’m playing with AI stuff now. If I subscribe to a few channels in this space, I can clearly see my search results pool diminish into an echo chamber. If I delete all of my subscriptions in this space, or limit them to a few with proven academic credentials, it alters the quality of my search results substantially. The lack of a large block of videos I find peripherally interesting means I shift onto topics I am motivated to try, test, or take action on quickly. Also, watching an engineer talk math or white paper review content is much more likely to get me to just put down the device and try stuff myself.