Quitting Instagram was the best recent decision I’ve made for my mental health. Not that Bluesky doesn’t have its moments, but seeing an outrageous image/infographic lacking context on IG compared to reading written out posts here was making me me so angry
You are the product, not the customer. Outrage is sticky. The longer you stay on anti-social media, the better for data mining and micro-targeting through sponsored content. The core problem is that most people don’t see how they are being manipulated.
It's sort of a special case of Dunning Kreuger. It's not that they think they know things they don't, it's that they think knowing things is relevant at all.
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But it's not something that depends on active cognition. It's subconscious, so we can't think our way out of it.