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you too, huh? lol
lemmy has made me stop doom scrolling so i turned it into my primary form of social media. i deleted my accounts on all other centralized american social media platforms, but i kept accounts on tiktok, twich, instagram and youtube to keep following leftist influencers who keep me informed while also helping me analyze it critically. they also help me understand leftist political theory.
it's been a real godsend to my perspective of life and given me hope for the future of humanity.
Yeah basically I saw a friend turn into a Nazi because of the algorithm and just kind of logged off. I did this with TV before everyone went streaming. I don't like being told what to think.
I haven't entirely shut myself out but I tune in when I want to now. Otherwise I'm just going to work and doing activist shit. Freetime is video games and books.
for me, it's my family.
my white passing family members have all gone maga or maga-friendly because they "don't get what's the big deal with trump" (their words).
meanwhile the older 1st generation immigrants of my family think that i'm just over reacting to trump because they believe that the united states will always be better than where we came from; so they overlook all the things that are happening and actively try to interfere when i try to make anyone in the family aware.
it's leading to with a really odd situation where the older people are more liberal than the younger people; but everyone is lining themselves up to do what maga wants done without realizing it.
Hmmm you know what I will take my position as bottomless pit/plato's cave supervisor seriously now I find that compelling