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A comment on Ask HN: Anybody else missing a 'pure' social media?.

Re:Ask HN: Anybody else missing a 'pure' social media? by rvz on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @05:35AM (#37131881)
> Where is the space for normal people?

None (As in no social media.). The solution to a pure social media / network is having none. Or just go outside.

It is not replacing one social network with another. It just prolongs the outrage and addiction regardless of the platform.

Just delete your accounts on all of them. You will feel much better rather than participate in the $current_outrage of the day. They deleted their accounts and never looked back: [0] [1] [2] [3]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/18/in-the-year-si...

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63482162

[2] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/fjollaarifi/quit-social...

[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62589423

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Re:Ask HN: Anybody else missing a 'pure' social media? by jdthedisciple on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @05:42AM (#37131926)
Solid advice.

The Internet has turned into quite a dystopian realm.

Surreal, when you think about what we all imagined it would be.

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Re:Ask HN: Anybody else missing a 'pure' social media? by dotcoma on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @06:25AM (#37132175)
Agree.

5 minutes a day on Twitter (after muting or blocking all the politics bullshit) and 5 minutes a day on LinkedIn is more than enough.

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Re:Ask HN: Anybody else missing a 'pure' social media? by rvz on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @12:44PM (#37136144)
The last one [3] shows exactly what happens when you don't leave social media.

You don't want that one.

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