Why do you waste so much time on the internet?

Re:Why do you waste so much time on the internet? by grvdrm on Friday May 06, 2022 @12:53PM (#31287340)

Are there entire feeds that you've deemed too wasteful? I get that you can slash much of what you look at on Twitter and still get what you want.

But what about things like Instagram, TikTok, etc. - did you delete those apps altogether or also aggressively trim (if you use them)?

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Re:Why do you waste so much time on the internet? by SamBam on Friday May 06, 2022 @01:13PM (#31287580)

I cut out Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Facebook I left a decade ago, for its ethical issues. Instagram I left because I felt the performance aspect was unhealthy: even in my only-friends-and-family circle, I'd still care too much about picking out the perfect photo of my kid or wherever.

For Twitter I realized it was way too easy to get sucked down political/angry feeds. One day Twitter said my account has suspicious activity (maybe a bot tried to log in) and I needed to reply to an email to re-enable it. I never replied to the email. Somehow this meant that every time I followed a Twitter link, I'd get that alert, so I could never see content. I felt so much happier.

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