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Inspired by Chatscape's Leaving Algorithm-Driven Spaces.
As someone spending a lot of time on places like Bear Blog, ooh.directory, and Bubbles, maybe I'm better served by reducing that spend. What if I migrated to more social places where less "feed annoyance" posts and other common negative blogging themes arose? That could lead to finding and accepting more bids toward positive interpersonal interaction instead. Prioritizing blossoming friendships over demonizing algorithms or other supposedly evil online entities, I can see how my needs could be better met by joining larger, high-feature platforms compared to smaller, low-feature platforms. Do you find that odd?
If you start or continue sharing what you want to see more of in a feed, does what others demand they should be seeing in the same feed matter? Posting from your heart instead of your hate might not yield as many replies, responses, or interactions as you would like. However, how much better could you feel in the long run having expressed what you actually wanted to versus what hijacked your attention?
Your social media use can have as large or as small an IRL component as you desire. Your social media use can eschew "the isolation of having to compete for ranking" for the quiet growth of showing up for as long as possible. How can you use social media to help you "find like-minded people and enjoy spaces that felt like they gave you more of a community"? Can you think of other online tools besides social media that could contribute toward the above goals?
Surf the web with however many surfboards and surfing spots as you prefer. Try finding more connectors and communities sharing your purpose within platforms, instead of desperately hoping for said purpose to prevail within the platform at-large. Besides that, maintaining and cycling through multiple discovery options can help soothe urges to complain about the conditions of any particular one. Think social media, feed aggregators, RSS subscriptions, browser bookmarks, favorites lists, etc. What else am I missing?