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i have already left one HELL of a digital footprint, but I'd like to make that a little cleaner, a little freer. So, I'm gonna be looking for a new search engine (ecosia is a scam unfortunately and duckduckgo is kinda for creeps imho, but im trying), new email service, gonna quit using google Docs to write.
Deactivating FB and Instagram soon, but need my friends and family to join the mass migration / go-dark-ification. I was never a Twitter liker but I did make a Bluesky. Now that they've dropped Pinksky, their instagram clone, why tf not just say bye to the fucked AI bots and algorithmic censorship?
Idk maybe I won't even use bsky/psky as much as I did Meta before, but either way, this social media shit has been exhausting for years and I just wanna experience life outside a screen again. Maybe show what I enjoyed/created on the screen later sometimes.
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I haven’t been on Twitter for years and hardly touch FB, but I had been an active user on Instagram since 2012. I really like taking and sharing photos, and that had always been a fun place to do it.
No more.
With the changes the content moderation changes they’re making, leaving LGBTQ+ folks vulnerable to be targeted; their rolling back of DEI programs; their willing participation in far-right rhetoric and politics; it’s all too much and I’m out.
As if Meta’s platform hadn’t already been increasingly enshittified, this was the final straw to announce how much worse it will get.
And you know what? It feels freeing. Better to leave it behind and find new platforms to connect with people.
Jan 22, 2025
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I’m going through the same thought process right now. My twitter/x has been long gone, I’ve gotten rid of meta, and frankly if tik tok comes back purchased/changed/etc. I will no longer be using it either. So for me I’ve done a few things: I’ve made new social media on healthier apps (which sounds counterintuitive to less social media but hear me out). I made a Pixelfed and it’s like the old old instagram. No ads, no distractions taking you to new links, no memes unless someone happens to post one on their personal account. It’s literally just people organically posting pictures of things they like from their breakfast to the view of their nature walk. Because it’s so simple again, I don’t really think there’s room for doomscrolling. This is me if you want to see what I mean!
Next: I use Bluesky partially to see some goings-on in the world to keep up to date, I went to the library of congress website and specifically subscribed to their email newsletters on bills being introduced and news in congress to stay up to date, and I’m vetting some news sources looking for something more objective and reliable to start reading from.
Also: a while back I got some digital cameras like I had when I was a kid for nostalgia reasons but now they’re coming in handy. I’m transitioning to using a flip phone! You don’t have to go this extreme but honestly I’m excited for it. I’ll have a flip phone so not everything will be so convenient and at the touch of my fingers, so I hope that my internet usage will become much more intentional. I’ll be leaving only a few apps on my smart phone, music, reading, this app and pixelfed for periodic social interaction lol, and that’s all I can think of right now. I’ll essentially be taking the SIM card out and using my smart phone as a wifi connected ipod lol.
My goal is to get back into my hobbies! Reading, sewing clothing, knitting, painting, being outdoors, gardening. I’ll communicate more intentionally with family and friends and not just through sending memes. I won’t doomscroll for hours and then feel bad that I wasted the day away. A lot of the sinister stuff going on between social media monopolies and the government recently is making the transition even easier. It’ll be hard at first because you’ll be so used to reaching for something to do for some instant gratification or stimulation, etc. but it’ll be so overall rewarding in the long run! Good luck❤️
Jan 19, 2025
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I don't know. I've been enjoying it, but it's kind of just Diet Twitter in the sense that I should probably not be consuming it at all (for my mental health). Friends and I have been talking about going full into wheat-pasting posters around for shows and just getting on email lists. The mask has come off for a lot of these platforms, and there was a time not so long ago where they weren't part of our daily lives. It probably wouldn't be that hard to rip the collective band aid off.
Jan 24, 2025
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have to remember to pay it forward for my roommates' friends helping us feed the cats thru this freeze. i shall do this by getting into the community garden and growin em some sweet veg when it warms up.
Feb 20, 2025
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i mean yeah i know i was kinda gay for ya and not tryna do anything about it but do we rlly gotta stop hanging/calling bc u tryna talk to some "fine shyt" or whatever
Feb 19, 2025