[throwboi123]

I realized that I can’t escape social media, or media in general. I am still using social media but made very very deliberate attempt to limit its poison:

- Refrain from commenting 90% of the time. Only when necessary. Even for sites like HN, because HN isn’t immune to the stuffs you described above. This has been the most helpful to me. I now only post on HN using throwaways, even for non provocative comments.

- Create multiple accounts for multiple purposes/subtopics (I love firefox container for this) and don’t get too attached, be ready to throw them quick. For sites like Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, etc. The purpose of social media to me is mostly to ask for high quality answers if I need something.

- Some sites allow you to block things. Like Twitter can block people, Reddit can block subreddit. On Reddit I block politics, antiwork, workreform, black/whitepeopletwitter, witchesvspatriarchy, leopardsatemyface, murdererbyaoc, and similar topic subreddits that often show up on hot. The content over there mostly are low quality.

- Never tell personal information online.

- Read more books/articles compared to tweets/facebook posts.

You can choose which media you want to consume. I try to refrain from consuming low quality media in general as much as I can (including avoiding tv, netflix, cosmopolitan, etc)

[Markoff]

> For sites like Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, etc. The purpose of social media to me is mostly to ask for high quality answers if I need something.

I wonder how successful you were, because from my experience asking question about anything on reddit is completely meaningless, pretty much all people answering won't read further than title and provide useless answers and you end up doing extensive internet research on your own to find out nobody helped you. That was my experience through years and many tries with Reddit.

> Some sites allow you to block things.

Highly recommended for Twitter - I don't want to waste my time with people agreeing with something completely against my values, they may be nice people under different circumstances and nice hypocrites (as shown through "pandemic"), but at least online I don't want to waste time with them. https://megablock.xyz

[throwboi123]

It depends on the topic, but I generally only ask technical/straightforward questions like programming, how to do X, where to buy X etc.

Yup just block them, its not like they are going to change your opinion, especially with low quality answers. Internet debate is 99% useless all the time. Books/articles are better. I’d argue that public literal fist fights have better net positive to society compared to public virtual online mudslingings.