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looking to separate from IG//big tech//streaming//algorithms as many others seem to be. happy to be here :)
Jan 25, 2025
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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.
Feb 21, 2025
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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Went cold-turkey off IG/FB a couple months back and had already ditched Twitter a couple years ago. It was a weird switch at first (especially IG). There are just some people I'm probably never going to be in contact with again, and for others, I won't have passive daily updates on their lives. Honestly, I think that's normal. It's just not the cultural norm. There are definitely things I miss and events I don't know about, but I'm still filling my life with great things and am just texting people instead. This place has effectively been a public gratitude journal, and Bluesky is where I can still toss unhinged takes into the void as well as get my news. As with most millennials, I'm admittedly still wired to seek validation from people on the internet, but cutting out an algorithmic-driven life has been so much better for my mental health. The more I learn about the perils of big tech, the more I wish people in my life felt empowered to do the same, but I get that people have complex relationships with the big platforms.
Edit: I guess I also have Substack, but the 'social' aspects of it are so unappealing, I hardly ever look at it.
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