How I quit social media – Without missing out on anything(aliabdoli.com) |
How I quit social media – Without missing out on anything(aliabdoli.com) |
Turn off your YouTube history/algorithm. It’s free, and it immediately prevents the Shorts tab from working, and kills your homepage. This means you have to actively subscribe to YouTube channels you enjoy, or search for topics you want to know about in that moment. I cannot recommend it enough.
For example, I'm just getting into music production so I have no idea who to subscribe to and just searching music production gives me way too much content. I had this show up on my home page which I thought was really helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT66Qwms-Mw&t=1572s
Maybe I should selectively turn it on and off, because yeah usually it's way too aggressive unless it's a new topic. I really wish social media sites gave more control over the algorithm. Like I just want to talk to an LLM and tell it what type of algorithm I want. More tame algorithm goes against their business model though so maybe I'll have to build it myself :)