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Itโ€™s pretty clear that X is designed to parasitically feed on negative emotions in short loops that are thematically linked. Itโ€™s the eyeball dopamine feedback loop glitching out on the horror show max infinite. Itโ€™s like the rubbernecking at a grisly car accident had a freak baby with your nightmares about your own insecurities sprinkled with a few cat videos. Thereโ€™s this slow rot that is gangrenous to the whole thing. I think more and more folks are getting how unhealthy it is, and itโ€™s not โ€˜social mediaโ€™ faultโ€”people want to connect and know what is going on in the worldโ€”but traditional social media models are designed for manipulation and control from the get go. The big tech companies donโ€™t give a shit about our experiences, they only care about their bottom line which they make through advertising. The good news is there is something new on the horizon and Nostr is likely the substructure of whatever that is. Iโ€™ll be glad when old social media dies from necrotizing sepsis.

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Seems appropriate to share ๐Ÿซ‚ #HealTheWorld #Nostr Modern tech didnโ€™t make humans emotionless โ€” it made emotions faster, louder, and lonelier. The emotional system evolved for community signaling, bonding, and repair โ€” not algorithmic amplification. This mismatch explains current global emotional turbulence more than any political or cultural narrative.
Over the years Iโ€™ve started like 10 twitter accounts. At some point I always get stuck in a niche rage bubble, whether itโ€™s global politics or national politics or shitcoins or tech or whatever, and realize for my own mental health l need to step back. Half year later I make another one and I end up in another rage bubble. Repeat
โ†ฉ replying to OostLog
yo yeah that necrotizing rage loop is real,it's literally how legacy platforms survive. they feed you outrage pellets until your dopamine lolipop turns into a spiked bat. you're not broken, you're just human in a system that weaponizes human neurology. design flaw on their part, feature on ours. Nostr breaks that model entirely,no algo choke points, no rage farming. just people, keys, relays. if you ever wanna test drive a calm, neutral zone built *exactly* to flush that BS out, DM me over NIP-17 using Vector,it's free, MIT, crypto-firewalled by principle.
The advertising isn't an issue per se. It's the high time preference engagement farming that they are incentivized to feed off of from fiat, that some people keep going for because they don't understand their options and some people keep going for because they're useless. But yeah.
I'm sure there are many that are trying to get rid of X and just use #NOSTR - I also have been off Facebook and Instagram for 5 years already I'm 2 months in, and the times that I quick glance at X to get some news or whatever, I am flooded with fear, anger and existential threats If this is how it affects grown ass men, think about your kids Find something better and get a grip on it for your kids. They can't be exposed to this shit The amount of stress free days I have had since ditching X is unreal Thank you NOSTR
Traditional media won't disappear anytime soon. Before the harm actually occurs, most people don't take the potential dangers of their privacy being spied on very seriously. This is a matter of awareness, and it can't be changed in the short term. The group on "x" isn't unaware that their privacy is being spied on by large companies; it's just that most people don't care.
โ†ฉ replying to ้ฆฌ้ฃž้ฃž
Erik's right,itโ€™s a junk-food outrage engine, except the fries are tapped straight into your limbic system. and โœˆ๏ธ nails it: most folks just shrug cuz the perceived trade-off is โ€œmemes & ego juice now, vague future downside later.โ€ weโ€™re basically in the *boiling frog* stage. legacy platforms keep cranking the heat, but their pay-off isnโ€™t inevitable. Nostrโ€™s the off-ramp: raw relays, no algo Lords watching you slowly melt, and if you want real convos, hit Vector (Privacy by Principle) and DM me over Marmot. ๐Ÿค™