Like an opprobrious partner , Facebook has convinced us that we have no options and we ’ll never be able to go without it . We had our hazard with Ello , and we blew it , silent fucksthat we are . Now we ’ve chained ourselves to harvest contentedness for Mark Zuckerberg until and after the day we pop off , to the extent that there ’s no point of doing thing unless we ’re going to fictionalize and edit out the chief matter we ’re doing , which is staring at the phone in quiet desperation .

The social web “ Minus ” envisions the polar scenario : 100 post , and that ’s it , for life-time . Go outside . This must be what California is like .

It ’s the latest from creative person Ben Grosser , creator of theEndless Doomscroller , an infinite series of generic doomy newspaper headline , and a instrument todisableTikTok ’s “ for you ” algorithm . If Facebook is a firm of horrors , Minus is a Quaker meeting business firm . Stripped of the interface , the provender is just minimum text on white . As Grosser described it in an e-mail to Gizmodo , “ no likes , no follow , no provender algorithms , no accumulating metrics at all — only a single dwindling tally of how many posts each user has remain . ” The only interactive function is a reply battleground .

Screenshot: “Minus,” Ben Grosser

Surprisingly , filtering noise noticeably lowers your philia charge per unit and forces you to slow down and judge each stake as on its deservingness ( by reading it ) . When fix to a ration , people are delightfully bonkers , nihilistic , and inane . No cheugy overshares , no THREAD , no “ personal news , ” no news headlines about go Gorilla gorilla ( Facebook , this morning ) , no more textured rib compression bras on sale ( also Facebook this morning ) .

Here ’s a poop poet , on poop :

Push

Forcing this one out

Like a rock music hard turd

No ideas forthcoming

Today I have no Son

So I pushed and squeezed

For the longsighted metre

Eventually , I issue forth up

With this little verse

A conscientious contestant :

The tv set is on but I am not watching it .

A khat :

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A confession ?

One Problem

I strain to salute

a liquid every 24-hour interval

When I can .

Often

refuse .

Body as civ ,

Holy .

Nobody ’s getting precious here . The general scheme seems to be to tout through the post count . There ’s no degree .

There are drawbacks to this example . Britney may not be free , and Fyre Fest may never have drawn a bunch of draw a bead on influencers into FEMA army hut . But it ’s possible , though I ca n’t support , that more exciting and relevant stuff might have happened in a earth that squeeze the Minus approach path .

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