General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 30
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The web being full of liberals is never a great thing but at least it usually doesn't prevent me for watching entertainment videos. For some reasons though I have encountered quite a lot of videos with crazy claims in the last two days. Your typical "communism requires following a leader without questioning them" or "Stalin committed atrocities" or "Cuba is a dictatorship" and I even got a bit of "Sweden is true socialism" and "people in Finland are happier than in China, therefore the Finnish system is better."
I have no idea how this happened, I wasn't even watching anything overtly political, but it was a bit infuriating.
What do you do when you are in a bad mood comrades? Me, I like to write stuff.
Doesn't Finland have a significant suicide rate? And also a lot of Neo-Nazis?
Anyway, social media platforms seem to tend to form a balance between ragebait recommendations and normal recommendations to get you to spend as much time in them as possible. If you follow a lot of things the solution is RSS. If you stick to a few corporate platforms anyway the solution is third party clients that filter out the algorithmic stuff if possible.
I try to distract myself when I'm in a bad mood. Mainly play video games while listening to some podcast. Neurotypicals may struggle with doing both at the same time, or maybe not, I don't know.
That's just how Western platforms work, anticommunist content will always be promoted, regardless of what you watch. For YouTube, you can use a proxy like inv.nadeko.net to avoid the tracking and "tailored" recommendations, at the expense of stability.
Using a local client is much better. Like PipePipe on Android. It's not as smooth an experience as it used to be since YouTube sucks, but it's still preferable to a public Invidious instance in my opinion. Selfhosting a private Invidious instance could be a solution too, I don't have the money to selfhost stuff so I can't comment on it though.