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by dbish 1084 days ago
It’s wild. Used to checking it frequently which any social media company would love, but can’t even scroll the feed this morning as I hit the rate limit just drinking coffee and catching up. The good thing is this will make me spend far less time on social media since it was the last one I had on my phone.
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Wow, so maybe Musk was society's savior we didn't want to need. Although, maybe if Twitter was no more, people would begrudgingly go back to FB for their doom scrolling needs.
Between Musk and u/spez, I recovered at least 2 hours a day of normally wasted time.

I've read books, like actual paper ones. Spent some time making a simply 2-d space shooter, just for fun. Spent more time engaged with people I care about. Turns out social media is the least social thing ever and basically sucks.

If you asked me a year ago I wouldnt have guessed that raising interest rates would be the cure to doomscrolling. But here we are.
What’s next? A war in Ukraine that solves the fossil fuel crisis?
Instagram Threads is going to thrash Twitter. It will be insane, like Snapchat stories but much worse