[allthetime]

The simple version: get off social media.

The dilemma for me is that aspects of social media (namely information sharing and learning) are incredibly useful, while others (contrarian argumentation, propaganda, attention black holes) are very harmful.

I go through cycles of abstaining from online interaction because I’ve sunk into the dark side too much but then return with a stronger intention in order to feed my hobbies and mind. I’ve found that it’s not so simple to just “not believe” what you see and read as being constantly bombarded with political messaging necessarily pushes you to one side or the other unconsciously.

So yeah, for me the best way is to cut that feed off entirely, instead of pretending I have any kind of effective fire wall against its deeper mental effects.

[energy123]

I'd like a product/UI that uses an LLM to filter social media to get rid of "contrarian argumentation, propaganda, attention black holes". Basically a sovereign recommendation engine.

[MarkusQ]

The easiest way to do that is to block the social media sites at your firewall. You may have a few false positive (maybe 1% or so?) but that should be minor compared to the time savings.