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Agreed on stopping subscriptions. Don't use Spotify.
I haven't listened yet but this relates to something that's been bugging me and I haven't found the right place to write it. This is also part of why I never got into TikTok in the first place. I did have a TikTok account for a few days and tried to see what the hype was about after all these years. But I was immediately turned off by the fact that after a video plays it goes down straight to the next one. It's not like Insta where you can control the speed at which you scroll through the content. It forces speed onto you. I could only use the app for a few minutes before getting overstimulated and overwhelmed and had to close it. I never installed it again.
It all comes back to the manifestations of this need for efficiency. There's cultural pressure to consume the next content chunk, while incentives or abilities to stop and savor things have been removed.
I keep thinking of Thoreau's advice to "simplify, simplify." Corporations wanna keep adding all these extra features that supposedly increase efficiency but they just create complications and headaches for their users.
The Croning by Laird Barron
Yeah that's very true about RSS readers and FOSS options and the masses not being able to find them very well despite wanting it. Agreed it's a good quotable conversation to have published. I am just frustrated that we so seldom see talk about what we can do about it, what comes next?
While I appreciate this article and those like it, too many of these types of articles don't focus enough on the solution. I expected an article titled "how to save" to offer more solutions to what can be done, but that's mostly left to a single paragraph about being more intentional and thoughtful and "sitting with your own feelings."
If something isn't done to actually change the consumerist culture and insidious marketing models and data collection practices, we'll have another article like this in another few years, like we have had every few years. We were talking about filter bubbles when I was in high school over ten years ago. It's only gotten worse.
i still judge people who film in portrait tbh. I can't stand vertical videos, it's the main reason i never made a tiktok.
once the boomers get there and start liking it, that's when you know it's about to reach peak and crash hard. my parents are talking about reddit. case in point.
i always sort by new but looks like someone slipped in right before me. damn.
It could be cool to have a fediverse alternative for IMDb or Letterbox. I used to track/rate movies and episodes of a show I'd watched on IMDb (the episodes mostly so I knew where I left off) but no longer want to deal with websites stuffed with ads. Would love to see something like this for the fedi but haven't come across anything.
social engineering
not memes for me but anime. there's no way to block whole instances i don't wanna see. if i don't wanna see ani.social on my feed at all i have to block every community on the instance, which is just not possible.
memes though is gonna be hard for you because a lot of people use meme formats to communicate in any topic. the science side of lemmy memes about science stuff. the programmers meme about computer stuff. but that's not all they do, there's more than just memes, there's actual discussion too. to completely get rid of memes and never see them on a lemmy feed again is gonna be an impossible task.