If the answer is to just not use the internet that is basically like saying "broken arm? use the other one." The issue is that it didn't used to be this bad. You could browse a forum and not have it be shills or shill accounts farming points so as to not appear as shill accounts. It was a more personal world without people trying to market themselves as none of that was incentivized in any way at the time. People prolifically posting videos for all 43 viewers for years and you'd never see them turn the camera at their face.
It got too big and then it became worth the investment to advertise in, the meta was established, and then that was that.
I went through a period of blocking and muting everything that pissed me off. The bedrock, that I cannot shift, is flat earth nonsense. I can block every flat earth page I see and there's always more.
And largely the problem with flerf "content" is that it is so unoriginal. If it wasn't the same 10 arguments (soundly defeated) over and over again it might be interesting.
If the answer is to just not use the internet that is basically like saying "broken arm? use the other one." The issue is that it didn't used to be this bad. You could browse a forum and not have it be shills or shill accounts farming points so as to not appear as shill accounts. It was a more personal world without people trying to market themselves as none of that was incentivized in any way at the time. People prolifically posting videos for all 43 viewers for years and you'd never see them turn the camera at their face.
It got too big and then it became worth the investment to advertise in, the meta was established, and then that was that.
Not without cutting yourself off from decent content.
My feed is 40% flat earth and seppo politics that I could happily just erase.
But the same application delivers updates from family and friends that I want to see.
I would sooner see a genocide against flat earther's than lose the connection to my social groups.
And I have tried, desperately, to use the in built preferences to try and avoid that content, if anything it just seems to make it worse.
Just mute or unfollow the divisive content. I’ve found it works pretty well and my FB is politics free.
I went through a period of blocking and muting everything that pissed me off. The bedrock, that I cannot shift, is flat earth nonsense. I can block every flat earth page I see and there's always more.
And largely the problem with flerf "content" is that it is so unoriginal. If it wasn't the same 10 arguments (soundly defeated) over and over again it might be interesting.