very thought-provoking video from @techconnectify.bsky.social about why we should work harder to cut The Algorithms out of our life. Literally inspirational. https://youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA?si=XAKBHg59dz4hV6dH
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I really don’t understand how people just let the algorithm decide what they see on socials. Maybe it’s my type-A personality, but I only ever look at the “following” (Bluesky, Instagram and Twitter) or friends (facebook) feed.
Three thoughts: 1) I feel like an idiot for not knowing the non-algorithmic "Subscriptions" feed already exists on Youtube 2) You should be able to opt out of the Bluesky Discover Feed...
I know some people have been opted-out of the discover feed manually (@ing the person who at bluesky who actually runs it), so I suspect that feature is in the works lest their mentions be swamped.
As a consumer, you should have to "opt-in" to the Discover tab.
Unfortunately, social media that doesn't incentivize slop won't happen until it's decentralized and the content is connected to the brand. There will still be lots of slop, a la NY Post but many brands will try to segment the market.
3) I've spent so many nights scrolling through the algorithmic suggestions feed on Netflix and other streamers and it makes me very unhappy and it sucks and I hate it. I'm going to write down a list *on paper* of movies I want to see then actively find them when I want to watch them. No more menus.
not everyone can do this (time, availability, etc) but I've found forcing oneself to physically *go* to the movies is a very good exercise. Solves streamer algo disease AND you get to watch a thing front to back without checking your phone, which helps a bit with attention span demolition
The suggestions don’t even include “thing you watched last night that you probably want to watch next episode of”! It takes multiple clicks/scrolls to get to that!
Right! If they suggested what you want you’d spend less time looking at stuff they’re advertising to you. You’d be shrinking your queue instead of adding to it & convincing yourself never to cancel
I don't use it! The point @techconnectify.bsky.social makes in the video is that the discover feed *being used by others* helps fuck things up for him. I agree with his observation that one of your own posts making it in there generates a bunch of shitty, idiotic replies into your mentions.
I need to watch this video when I'm in the right mindset. He's had a lot of "old man yells at cloud" type takes lately that have kinda irritated me. Not totally unreasonable ones but ones that underlie a reflexive anti-consumerism that misses a lot of things.
I don't think it's reflexive anti-consumerism, in the case of either @techconnectify.bsky.social or @edzitron.com . The issue is that consumer product development and marketing has over the past 20 years departed from actually solving consumer problems to try for ongoing captive revenue streams.
Yes, the dishwasher ones! My wife makes fun of me for saying that my mind was blown after watching those, but I learned so much I never knew before about mundane shit like that that I should have known years ago.
Turn off all your push notifications! I did it! It's great. You can make an argument for leaving on notifications for email or texts if you have the sort of job that requires you to immediately respond to urgent messages but otherwise turn everything off https://bsky.app/profile/jurph.bsky.social/post/3liufo2kaos2b
If your employer uses Microsoft 365, there are a bunch of controls available to restrict who and when push notifications will be sent. Outside of business hours there’s a short list of people who can email or message me and my phone will notify me. Otherwise, I’ll see it when I start work next.
I use Google Sheets for this, both movies and series. Sorted by which streamer it’s currently available on, color-coded by status (want to watch imminently, watched, started and DNF, etc.). For series, also has columns for season/episode count and length to give a sense of time commitment
I've been "living" on my YouTube subscriptions feed for *years* and it is always my number one recommendation for people, especially when they complain about the junk served up to them. It used to be WAY more prominent; in fact the reason it is functionally my YouTube homepage is because they (1/n)
...obfuscated it many years ago, which is exactly why you didn't know about it. They actively made it harder to find.
I try to avoid looking at post-video suggestions, and when it gets out of hand, I make a point to rewatch music videos or songs posted that I've watched before. It does a LOT (2/n)
...to reset your suggestions to basically just music videos in my experience.
The algorithm is one of the reasons video content like I create (serial video game playthroughs) practically built YouTube, but is systematically discouraged now. (3/3)
The one problem with “Subscriptions” feed is someone like PBS who chops up the hour-long Newshour into (20) 3-minute clips so you gotta scroll through 20 vids. I’m pretty close to unsubscribing just to avoid this clutter in my Subs feed
you can straight up disable YT history in your settings and it turns off the landing FYP! this broke my YT scrolling habit overnight and I highly recommend it
This video clarified so many of my thoughts — how so many internet platforms isolate our experience rather than enhance or expand it.
The head cannon moment for me was his point about how if you follow 1000+ people on a platform, you are not seeing all the stuff you actually care about.
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Unfortunately, social media that doesn't incentivize slop won't happen until it's decentralized and the content is connected to the brand. There will still be lots of slop, a la NY Post but many brands will try to segment the market.
i had no idea id be so interested in how hurricane lamps work but i am
Boys on whom society has shit is my cinematic jam.
1) Pixote
2) Fresh
3) Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
4) The 400 Blows
etc.
They never seem to get it right.
https://youtu.be/Tj_RphBpwiw?si=vLjnsmcKLFykqri-
I try to avoid looking at post-video suggestions, and when it gets out of hand, I make a point to rewatch music videos or songs posted that I've watched before. It does a LOT (2/n)
The algorithm is one of the reasons video content like I create (serial video game playthroughs) practically built YouTube, but is systematically discouraged now. (3/3)
I’ll just occasionally summon up the “Discourse” feed if I want to go gawk at train wrecks.
The head cannon moment for me was his point about how if you follow 1000+ people on a platform, you are not seeing all the stuff you actually care about.