It’s not the bigger Twitter quit I’ve been debating for a while, but I’ve just taken the intermediate step of removing the Twitter app and its notifications from my phone. I’m going to be using a handful of feed readers to more purposefully consume curated content in the coming year.
I’ll still syndicate content into Twitter and can use my own website to receive @mentions, comments, and likes, so I won’t really be going anywhere. But I will be leaving behind a lot of the curation, maintenance, poor trained/engrained behaviors, as well as a lot of content that really isn’t doing me much good.
In particular, leaving behind a lot of the toxic content makes me feel lighter and happier already.
h/t Richard MacManus and Jonathan LaCour in the past few hours among many, many others in the near past.
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When it comes to social media I curate who I follow. That handles the toxic atmosphere. I turn off all notifications and often log in less than once a day for short periods of time.
I’ve been using #Rotonde on @BeakerBrowser and it’s interesting how it’s a completely different atmosphere.
@jimpick Can one interact with #Rotonde in a decentralized or #IndieWeb way? Has anyone tried or is it locked off within @BeakerBrowser?
Syndicated copies:
I hadn’t thought to mention it previously, but I’d gotten a new phone about 6 months ago and never even installed the Facebook app on it. I’m therefore doing much the same thing for Facebook as a result.