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What is the most relieving thing you've done for yourself? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 5 months ago by pyria@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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That doesn't involve either masturbating or going to the bathroom.

Mine is leaving Facebook. 4 days ago it has passed its permanent deletion date, so I can no longer recover it. I've been on it for 5 years and have been off and on it a little longer beforehand. Yes it sucks that by deleting my Facebook, I've closed off the connection to my locals who are on there, who I haven't seen in 3 1/2 years because I moved.

However, I have tried giving them alternatives to keep in touch but they seemed glued to the platform. Not budging, not caring, though I didn't want to be around anymore.

I was tired of the ads that I had to keep closing, I was tired of the YouTube shorts-ripoff always shoved in my face that I had to keep closing. I was tired of seeing notifications to things that either didn't exist or was already read but I got a notification for anyways. I was tired of being recommended people I have had no intention of adding. I was tired of FB Dating, on my phone, making up a number to get me to use it again.

I was just so tired of all of this degradation that FB has become over the years to where it was outweighing whatever use I thought that there was with it.

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

i felt relief when i dropped all social media and tv news; including facebook.

then i've selectively adding in new platforms one-at-a-time ensuring that each one wasn't controlled by the same forces that have gamified and/or manufactured narratives like facebook/reddit/bluesky/etc. does.

lemmy, rednote, and tiktok are the only things to pass muster so far, but i suspect i'm going to have to drop tiktok eventually considering its new ownership.

[–] pyria@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

TikTok has quickly earned a negative reputation to the things you've already listed off as having manufactured narratives. That platform alone has bred generations of people now who possess attention spans like a fly and believe nearly anything that's on it like gospel.

The sooner you're off it, the better.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

tiktok hasn't been around long enough for generations to use it and the narratives used to be verifiably genuine until it started livestreaming the gazan genocide; that's when it turned to shit and those manufactured narratives started to dominate it.

i started following influencers on it before the isreali & american governments started pushing "inconvenient" people off it and paying people to manufacture those narratives (respectively). i suspect i'll stop using it once they've forced everyone i follow to move to other platforms.