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The entire algo is filled with rage baiting bots meant to make you feel disenfranchised and othered while it throws the worst content at you back to back to back - I got off the ride finally 🙌🏽 I stayed for so long because I felt like I was getting important information about the world but it's honestly edited crap meant to keep you scrolling. Comments filled with misogynoir, ableist, and xenophobic word vomit. Back to blogs and youtube vlogs - it honestly feels so amazing to not have that app there. So much time wasted and energy lost - happy to adjust what I consider connecting and being connected 😊
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Relearning about using the actual internet is so much more fun than scrolling through Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, etc. I'm really enjoying this website and many others that (shockingly) don't make me go insane.
3d ago
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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 definitely not the first person here to make a rec about this, but my tired brain is truly rejoicing. i have a very hard time completely leaving it since i communicate and share creative work through the app, but i think i’ve decided i will only be on it once a week or when i need/want to post. that’s all. as an already anxious person, seeing the same anxiety-inducing general information (as in something i could easily find on google or a news app) be reposted by 20+ people on their stories has become HELL, especially these last few weeks. not only that, but the constant push of personal opinions about such matters (even if i agree with them) just seems to warp your perception of people. maybe i’m just a wimp, but i don’t think humans were meant to see each other in such a way; we’re not so flashy and impulsive face to face. add the endless scrolling onto that, and it’s downright exhausting and kills productivity. there is so much more dimension and depth to humans and life than what is said or done or seen through this screen. can we please go back to flip phones?
Jan 31, 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.
3d ago
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It's like I've been released from the shackles of obsession instantaneously and they start looking like npc ken dolls - they turn into background characters so fast...my mind clears them from its memory immediately and the sun is just so 🌞 afterwards the birds, the air, the earth - what a magical feeling
Shout out to the girlies who have explored enough to know what is and is not a good time, exercising your voice and not settling because it's "comfortable" in all other aspects is something i'm so proud of myself for
Feb 23, 2025
Mar 23, 2025
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i didn't realize how much of my time was wasted on my phone - everything i was consuming was straight anxiety juice. pinterest is peaceful and i love it on here, i don't spend hours on either and it's a nice little check-in when i feel like it
2d ago