Letting an algorithm decide what you feed your brain is insanity.
Curate your feeds yourself, use lists.
You become what you feed yourself, and unless you trust big tech algos to be aligned with your principles and know who you want to become, you should probably unplug from that shit.
It’s unreal how I open bird app or IG, and every other post is sponsored or suggested into my feed, things I don’t want, don’t need, and straight up make me angry…
I open Nostr on any client, and it’s just what I want… 🥲😊
You become what you feed yourself and if you trust “big tech” to curate that list for you, your results will be similar to that of your health, if you were to let big food and big pharma direct your life.
You are what you eat.
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Preach brőther
Having a “feed” generated by an algo is irritating at best. Finding a collection of high signal note-makers is a pretty good trick, though. I don’t mind the search up to a point, but there are only so many minutes. I found a voice I wanted to read on the bird app, but couldn’t get the posted npub to work in Damus. Finding high quality conversation from known is not trivial. Finding *new* high-quality commenters to expand one’s perspective is harder still. Scrolling through the global feed is a low-yield effort.
…and lists would be very helpful.
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Letting algorithms feed you is one thing, primarily encountering the world through an extra mediated layer (today primarily screens) another!
Matthew B. Crawford does an excellent job in his book: The World Beyond Your Head to show what it means to actually have an encounter with the physical/material world: it's the discovery that you cannot always bend reality to your likings or will.
Learning to live with this kind of contingency belongs in the toolbox of any mature person.
To accept that which is outside of our control. And to direct that energy towards what we can control.
