[nicbou]

I never quit, but I dramatically reduced my usage, and generally changed how I interact with others online.

I am down to two subreddits that I visit by typing the URL in the address bar, and the orange site we all love. The other websites are write-only dumps where I interact with my website’s (very kind) followers. I don’t follow anyone and my feeds are literally empty. I use a Firefox extension to redirect from the feed to my notifications. I never tried TikTok or Instagram, and quitting the other hellsites was very easy post-covid; I just went outside.

Above all I just stopped engaging with bad faith comments. I just don’t get riled up by any of it anymore. I focus on positive interactions and lost interest in having the last word.

[Gooblebrai]

Interesting. You never had the need of doing social media marketing? I often wonder how would healthy relationship with social media look like if that kind of marketing is needed.

[nicbou]

They are separate jobs done on separate accounts.

My business profile has an audience that I interact with. However I only go there if I have something to post, or to reply to interactions. Hence “write-only”.

I am not an influencer. My face is not on the internet. I am just a guy running a locally popular website, and I use social media to talk about the stuff I am working on for this website.