I have just realized how horrifyingly over reliant I am on recommendation algorithms.

a very large amount of the stuff I see online is spoon fed to me (youtube, tumblr, roblox, etc.) and my only input is whether I like it or dislike it.

its so bad that I actually get nervous whenever I go to genuinely search for something, which in turn has made me quite bad at it.

to put it into a metaphor, I have not been surfing the web, I have been sitting on a tram with tinted windows through the web.

so I’m deciding that I’m going to try and drastically limit the amount of algorithmic content I view, while staying on the internet. luckily for you all, wasteof proudly does not have a recommendation algorithm so I won’t be leaving, potentially I’ll even become more active on here.

I have no idea how long I’ll impose this on myself, but I might keep yall updated.

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