Comment by amelius

Perhaps a solution is that we separate the delivery of social media posts from the company that produces them. (Just like email can be received in a client that is not run by e.g. companies that send spam).

This means that we can teach our Social Media Inbox (abbreviated here SMI) that we don't like certain messages, and the SMI will remove them from the feed.

The trick here is that the SMI has its incentives aligned with the user, not the social media companies. So there is no incentive to make us addicted.