Fully Parasocially Detached with Maximum Algo Exploit
A radical and extremely rare way of using X (as of January 2026)There exists a tiny minority of X users who simultaneously and uncompromisingly pursue two goals:Letting the algorithm work for them as intensively and honestly as possible –
while at the same time radically erasing every trace of parasocial connection, no matter how faint.The core of this approach can be summed up in one single sentence:
“I want the feed to understand me better than any human ever could – but I want to be practically non-existent to every human being on this platform.”The technical implementation is relatively straightforward, yet extremely consistent down to the smallest detail:
The account remains permanently protected. There are zero followed accounts – forever. Anyone who attempts to follow is instantly blocked. Likes are set to private, there are no replies, no quotes, no reposts, no mentions. The “For you” tab is the only one ever opened. And one’s own behavior toward content is kept as honest and impulsive as possible – no counter-steering, no strategic clicking.The result is paradoxical: After a few months, the personalization quality often surpasses what most normal power users with hundreds of follows ever achieve. At the same time, social visibility and parasocial attachment are almost completely eliminated.Who actually does this over a long period (not just as a short experiment)?Most often, these are people with a very strong need for protection from closeness. Frequently you find avoidant attachment styles combined with an extremely high need for autonomy and sovereignty. Some come from long, intense phases in toxic online communities, fandoms, or political camps and simply never want to be caught again in any form of expectation or group dynamic. Others are principled privacy maximalists – often with libertarian, crypto-adjacent, or radically data-protection-oriented backgrounds – who fundamentally reject follows and followers as an undeserved, structural form of attention economy.After many months, the few who really stick with it tend to say similar things:
The feed has become uncannily accurate, sometimes uncomfortably accurate.
It feels like a second, completely honest consciousness that belongs only to oneself.
The first months were chaotic and poor, but from around the six-month mark it got really interesting.
One has discovered things about oneself that one didn’t want
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