Left social media again
Mar. 6th, 2024 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solon_kittenJust going to keep this brief.
Logged out of Twitter. (Keeping only to keep the name)
Deleted my Fediverse accounts.
Deleted my old Tumblr account.
Deleted my BlueSky account.
Pretty much dumped all social media, because I'm tired of feeling panicked from doomscrolling, being swamped by politics and fighting, and having all the positive stuff I've tried to curate into my feeds suddenly get buried under massive surges of negativity. People boost stuff without CWs on the Fediverse, or don't tag them in ways that are easily filtered, so all those tools to "help users feel safer"? They only work when it's convenient for the narrative.
I'm done with the constant feeling of mental fatigue from people shoving the hellscape of the world into my face no matter what I do. Social media just isn't worth the constant damage it does to my mental health. It just isn't. And the addiction is hard to fight, but I'm going to keep trying until I beat it. At least with logging out, I'm extremely discouraged from logging in due to how I have 2FA set up, so that should at least help until I can get up the mental fortitude against FOMO to delete the remaining accounts.
I just can't let myself constantly feel so defeated about things I enjoy because other people shit of them loudly enough to drown out all the happiness. It's better to cut that off from my life than let it fester into something I can't come back from.
Logged out of Twitter. (Keeping only to keep the name)
Deleted my Fediverse accounts.
Deleted my old Tumblr account.
Deleted my BlueSky account.
Pretty much dumped all social media, because I'm tired of feeling panicked from doomscrolling, being swamped by politics and fighting, and having all the positive stuff I've tried to curate into my feeds suddenly get buried under massive surges of negativity. People boost stuff without CWs on the Fediverse, or don't tag them in ways that are easily filtered, so all those tools to "help users feel safer"? They only work when it's convenient for the narrative.
I'm done with the constant feeling of mental fatigue from people shoving the hellscape of the world into my face no matter what I do. Social media just isn't worth the constant damage it does to my mental health. It just isn't. And the addiction is hard to fight, but I'm going to keep trying until I beat it. At least with logging out, I'm extremely discouraged from logging in due to how I have 2FA set up, so that should at least help until I can get up the mental fortitude against FOMO to delete the remaining accounts.
I just can't let myself constantly feel so defeated about things I enjoy because other people shit of them loudly enough to drown out all the happiness. It's better to cut that off from my life than let it fester into something I can't come back from.
