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i dont have most social media apps and now im working on cutting out instagram too. i find that life is so much better without it and most of the things i worried about just arent significant now

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[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 5 points 17 hours ago

I didn't make a conscious effort to stop. They got really shitty on their own, and I found more grass-touching activities. I still have accounts on all of the big social media platforms, since people will message me or send me links on them from time to time. But will go months at a time not even thinking about them.

I do spend a lot of time on lemmy and mastodon, as well as groups on the various messaging services (discord, matrix, signal, telegram, WhatsApp, and good 'ol SMS and email). Those are technically the same kind of "social media". But I think everyone understands now that there's a categorical difference between real communities of people using a technology to talk to each other, and the skinner boxes.

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