Social media is fundamentally incompatible with long term happiness. We all know fulfillment comes from real life experiences - usually with other people. Social media undermines that with addiction. To be online all the time is to be away from the real world experiences. It’s a balancing game - and could work if you manage to have more offline time. But ultimately it’s poison - like sugar, tastes good but makes you sick in the long term.

To become mainstream so to speak is to enable addiction - in its current form. And to break free from addiction is to have boring social media without algorithms. Even positively tuned algorithms build addiction.

So it’s ironic to see people on nostr wanting algorithms and more people - what you’re really saying is you want more people to be addicted over here instead of over there. Maybe they’ll feel less doom, but ultimately eating the same cake.

The real win comes from balance, but that means admitting you have a problem and having the willingness to do something about it.