[soupfordummies]

The fix is easy and it's simple -- stop using them! Normalize it. Encourage others to do the same. Make it "cool" to not be on them/"lame" to use them.

I struggle to see how personal FB/IG/Twitter use is anything other than a net negative at this point. And it's gotten a lot more so over the last several years, IMO.

[Diederich]

> stop using them

Very quick thought experiment. FB had about 70 billion in income in 2019, and 2.7 billion monthly users. That's $25/user/year.

So maybe transition FB to a paid platform? In return, no advertisements, no tracking, no 'adversarial' feed algorithms.

I know that a large chunk of monthly FB users would not pay, and that a lot of the problems aren't from the algorithms, but rather with the groups and communities people form themselves, and what people share with each other.

I post pretty rarely on FB, and when I use it, I only look at particular people's pages, so I'm not (directly) subject to the dreaded feed.

As some others have said, using it as described, my personal FB experience is pretty positive. To be clear: I do manually follow a wide variety of people, across the socio-political spectrum. There is a certain amount of noise but the signal is much higher. And I will naturally tend to stop following people who primarily share/reshare toxic crap.

[listless]

I’m 100% on board with this. It seems to me that the only way out is if we reject these things on a cultural level. Being on social media should be a disgrace.

[jackcosgrove]

If social networks discourage you from participating, then they really are Doomsday machines, according to the intent of a Doomsday machine.

[WildParser]

Problem is - by removing sane people the thing will become even more insane... And most people there are unable to notice - they form democratic majority - nowadays things can accelerate downhill very fast.