Facebook was fine at first. I remember excitedly hearing that my school was added to the list of approved schools to get a Facebook account.

Not sure if problems started when it was expanded beyond just listed colleges, or if it was just the public stories or wall or whatever it's called.

Technically unopposed bigotry is the reason we have the far right

That's very Chicken vs Egg for me. In the metaphorical sense anyway.

Facebook was never fine; it just wasn’t a silo effect at first—but it was still a privacy and security nightmare.

I don’t miss spending hours trying to get a slot on the modem pool.

But I’m still happy to while away a few hours on mume.org or some random Diku server.

it may not seem like it but.. being offline is the best thing you can do to your mental health. No need to overwhelm your brain with stuff happening elsewhere when you already have to deal with stuff closer to home. Being aware is generally better than being ignorant but it shouldn't disable your daily life.

Firefox focus works amazingly!

Absolutely Firefox focus.

I partly watched 1 "psychology" video, it was branded as Karl Jung so mebbe interesting, but it was some "intelligent people suffer more" bullshit, and now I have had to manually block over 10 channels of that type (9 signs a woman likes you, How to know someone takes advantage of you! etc etc) to just "get back" to being served only 4-5 of my 40+ subscriptions.

So IMO it's worse than just serving me what I asked for...

That used to be a problem like 5-10 years ago. If you clicked something, YT used to think you must love that stuff, and would never forget that unfortunate click. Nowadays though, downvoting and watch time are taken more seriously by the algorithm. If I find some trash, I just give it a thumbs down and stop watching immediately. Seems to work pretty well for me.

How to fully block pro-right, minecraft and roblox content? It doesn't matter how many videos I mark as "not interested" or channels I block, there's always another one that YT shows on the sidebar of related videos

Tbh I have never seen Minecraft and Roblox content at all. I do occasionally see alt right content but I block it immediately and don’t see them again.

I’ll give you a different perspective, perhaps you keep getting those kind of videos because you share some of the same beliefs as them. So maybe yt/life is trying to get you to start questioning your beliefs and interests…

This is completely unrelated, but I'm fascinated by your usage of original letters for "th". I recognize the thorn, but what is the other letter you used ("thee" sound instead of "thuh")?

If you want all youtube links you click on on your phone to open in tubular you can go to your phones settings>apps>tubular>set as default and make open supported links on and under the supported web addresses you can select all the web addresses you want to be opened in tubular.