My experience of social media became much more pleasant and useful after taking a few simple steps:

- Cancel X account after their fascist alignment was explicit
- Only look at the chronological friends feed on Facebook, combined with the FB Purity extension to filter out ads
- Only follow people who write informatively and factually, cite sources, and don't pump up their posts with ragebait, paranoia, and "AI"-generated boluses of anger (so I mostly look at Heather Cox Richardson, Rebecca Solnit, and Joohn Choe, with occasional excursions into Jay Kuo)
- Instantly block every fascist, racist, misogynist, etc. once their views become clear

People who can do nothing but angrily post the same talking points they were fed by disinformation machines (or the same fundamental misunderstanding of how dividends work and demand for same, in one case on the BRK board)? They no longer exist, from my point of view. There has been a big gain in diminished annoyance and wasted time.

Perhaps that's an "echo chamber", but there is still plenty of disagreement to be found. However, the disagreement is between people who are open to reasoned discussion and do not deny other people's constitutional and human rights. Also, HCR and Solnit are informative enough I don't need to spend much time on "news" sites. apnews.com is decent of its kind, and occasionally aljazeera.com for a highly biased (Qatari government outlet), but non-Western perspective.