BACK ON FACEBOOK

 It's the 1st of June today so my month of no blogging, and not posting on Facebook is up!

I must admit, to feed my social media addictions, I did have a quick scroll through my Facebook feed from time to time in May, but didn't do any posts myself.

And I also had a quick look at my other old haunts, but the blockchain platforms Steemit, Hive, Bastyon, and Blurt all show no signs of recovery, and are actually even more deserted and lame than when I previously checked them last year. Blockchains looked like the future of social media around 2017, but they have all proven to be complete failures.

 In fact they now look far worse than the mainstream platforms they were going to replace. Blurt for example looks utterly tragic...

Several friends have been recommending Instagram, so I had another go at using it. Instagram is owned by Facebook, so they could easily make it work more like FB, but it has three big problems that FB doesn't have. None of them are difficult to fix, so I'm sure they have their own devious reasons for leaving it as is.

Firstly it can't be set to show a chronological feed, so you only see what their algorithms want you to see. That pretty much kills any platform for me. 

Secondly, you can't repost other people’s content, and that combined with the lack of active users, makes it a slow moving ghost-town with a boring feed. Yes I realise I'm following over 20x as many people on FB as on Instagram, but I had a look around and was struggling to find interesting content.

Which brings me to the third big problem - a total lack of engagement, most people on Instagram seldom seem to post or comment. They mostly don't even hit like on anything. So it's all as dead as dodo.

I did 52 quick posts, and managed to build up an massive audience of 13 disinterested followers, but no, it really is a pretty hopeless platform, so I wasn't inspired to continue using it.

And then there is X/Twitter. I've never had a good relationship with Twatter, in fact they deleted my original account back in 2015. But because I wanted to see some specific content in 2019 I set up a new account, and by a lucky a fluke called my account "X". But I still didn't like the platform then and have never really used it since. This year I was again wanting to see some specific content so ended up trying it again.

Twitter, like Instagram, also has three big problems, at least it does for me. It too has no chronological feed. Yes it can be set to chronological in the app, but not when viewed in a browser, which is what I want to do. And in the app it's wall to wall advertising. Unless you pay them!

Talking about paying them, they not only want $ to verify your account (lots of $ and they keep going on about it, because Elon Musk is really short of cash) they even want $ just to let you edit your posts.

And the third biggie is that in my opinion the entire platform is a badly designed confusing mess. I can't easily see what I want to see, and I find it totally frustrating to use. It's a complete chaos zone.

So even if some of the people I subscribe to on YouTube say "follow me on X for all my latest posts", I can't be bothered looking at that mess, so when push comes to shove I will just give it all a miss.

FACEBOOK IS THE ONLY ONE FOR ME

All the mainstream social media platforms are deep state mind programming psyops, so if I'm going to be sucked into the enemies mindfuck it had better be a damn good platform.

Which essentially leaves only Facebook, the exact same conclusion I came to last year. At times, particularly NZ 6pm to 9pm, when it's a relatively high portion of real people posting, rather than mostly AI generated crap, my feed is actually pretty entertaining to scroll through.

VIDEOS SUCK

All social media, as well as being designed to program everyone's minds, is also designed to waste as much time as possible. And a key tactic for doing that is to constantly distract everyone with videos. Occasionally one of them is interesting, but the vast majority are just more time wasting distractions.

So from now on, as I'm scrolling down my FB timeline, I'm going to completely ignore all the video posts. I already mostly do that anyway, but I want to consciously make it a habit, to not only not click on them, but to not even look at the posts at all. If it's a video, I’ll simply be scrolling past it as fast as I can.

I'm on FB to see a bunch of good content as rapidly as possible. Videos don't work in with that aim, because they are eating up valuable minutes out of a 15 min FB session, so I'll totally cut them all out.

FACEBOOK CENSORSHIP

Since "President" Trump was selected, FB have backed off their censorship to some extent. Many things that were getting my accounts restricted or suspended in 2024 are now not a problem.

But the censorship is very unpredictable, and from time to time I still get account restrictions, which are generally one month of being unable to use groups. I'm an admin for a couple of groups, and also an active member of several others, so having to switch over to a back up account to use groups for a month is a total pain in the arse.

The sort of content that FB is censoring is not obscenity (that is mostly fine) or even exposing "vaccines" or the Covidhoax (that is no longer a problem, and the AI now doesn't give a toss if you say viruses don't exist or that all vaccines are death jabs), but just try discussing BLACKC0CK, or LARRY PINK, or anything to do with ISRAHELL or the JUICE, and you are playing with fire.

As a work around, from June 1st my Greg Anderson account is going to be fairly well behaved. If in doubt I'll ask Tom Anderson to post any potentially "offensive" content, because Tom doesn't give a toss if he has account restrictions.