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Ask HN: Would you use a service to unfollow everyone on your social media?

4 points by pomdevv 3y ago

Would you use a service that allows you to unfollow everyone on your social media in one click ? If so how much would you pay for it ?

FBISurveillance 3y ago
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I'd just create a new account. These days, every time I have to pay for something online I ask myself: is it worth 5.5% per year guaranteed no-risk that i'm losing out if I'd buy bonds instead? I know it's offtopic, but I did a review last month and stripped down number of subscriptions: * Replaced Dropbox with GDrive that I already pay for as part of my personal Google Workspace subscription (email on my domain). * After recent Apple One price hike I couldn't justify it canceled and got _exactly what I need_ (just 200GB iCloud and Music), 3x cost reduction. * Started transferring my soon-expiring domains from Gandi to Porkbun (I was too lazy before). And so on, there were some more and I trimmed my online spend down significantly. Out of curiosity, anyone else is doing this sort of optimization? During ZIRP I never cared much.
- pomdevv 3y ago
  It it's a one time paiement, would you consider it ?
  - FBISurveillance 3y ago
    Me personally (sample size 1) - not really, but my social network usage is non-existing. I only have X where I follow tech folk and that's it. Not a user of FB/Instagram/etc.
    - pomdevv 3y ago
      Mmmh i see
haebom 3y ago
I remember when I was on Twitter, there was a service that did something similar, and it was free.
- pomdevv 3y ago
  Do you remember the name by chance ? Did it work well ?
  - ptm 3y ago
    I think there was a tool called justunfollow. I never used it myself so I'm not sure how well it worked.
FrenchDevRemote 3y ago
There are free scripts and or tools with free trial like phantombuster. So the response is 0$.
- pomdevv 3y ago
  thanks for the info :)
decide1000 3y ago
I would pay to have all my (forgotten) accounts deleted at socials, but also websites and apps
- pomdevv 3y ago
  Ooooh that would be awesome ! How do you imagine it ? You enter an email or first name/last name and it deletes all of the unused accounts linked to it ?
wmlive 3y ago
Once having used an extension named "Unfollow everyone on facebook at once" proved to be a very effective way to cut down the amount of pointless stuff on FB. Apparently, the extension was too effective and successful to stay unpunished: https://techstory.in/facebook-quashed-chrome-extension-that-lets-you-bulk-unfollow-everyone/ https://techstory.in/facebook-quashed-chrome-extension-that-... I stumbled over it back then due to the unavoidable Streisand effect and happily so. Combined with "Social Fixer" (see https://socialfixer.com https://socialfixer.com for information), this made FB much more bearable. Judging by it's CRX id, the code is still available via https://extpose.com/ext/pijkodjelolnmbehifeokihlodnajela/en https://extpose.com/ext/pijkodjelolnmbehifeokihlodnajela/en (look for github on the page).
KomoD 3y ago
There's free tools, so nothing.
broadwayinc 3y ago
I would use it if it was free. And even if it was a payed service, It would be a 1 time thing so I don't see it as a good business model.
- pomdevv 3y ago
  yea

4 points by pomdevv 3y ago

Would you use a service that allows you to unfollow everyone on your social media in one click ? If so how much would you pay for it ?

FBISurveillance 3y ago

Maybe I'm an outlier, but I'd just create a new account. These days, every time I have to pay for something online I ask myself: is it worth 5.5% per year guaranteed no-risk that i'm losing out if I'd buy bonds instead? I know it's offtopic, but I did a review last month and stripped down number of subscriptions: * Replaced Dropbox with GDrive that I already pay for as part of my personal Google Workspace subscription (email on my domain). * After recent Apple One price hike I couldn't justify it canceled and got _exactly what I need_ (just 200GB iCloud and Music), 3x cost reduction. * Started transferring my soon-expiring domains from Gandi to Porkbun (I was too lazy before). And so on, there were some more and I trimmed my online spend down significantly. Out of curiosity, anyone else is doing this sort of optimization? During ZIRP I never cared much.

pomdevv 3y ago
It it's a one time paiement, would you consider it ?
- FBISurveillance 3y ago
  Me personally (sample size 1) - not really, but my social network usage is non-existing. I only have X where I follow tech folk and that's it. Not a user of FB/Instagram/etc.
  - pomdevv 3y ago
    Mmmh i see

haebom 3y ago

I remember when I was on Twitter, there was a service that did something similar, and it was free.

pomdevv 3y ago
Do you remember the name by chance ? Did it work well ?
- ptm 3y ago
  I think there was a tool called justunfollow. I never used it myself so I'm not sure how well it worked.

FrenchDevRemote 3y ago

There are free scripts and or tools with free trial like phantombuster. So the response is 0$.

pomdevv 3y ago
thanks for the info :)

decide1000 3y ago

I would pay to have all my (forgotten) accounts deleted at socials, but also websites and apps

pomdevv 3y ago
Ooooh that would be awesome ! How do you imagine it ? You enter an email or first name/last name and it deletes all of the unused accounts linked to it ?

wmlive 3y ago

Once having used an extension named "Unfollow everyone on facebook at once" proved to be a very effective way to cut down the amount of pointless stuff on FB. Apparently, the extension was too effective and successful to stay unpunished: https://techstory.in/facebook-quashed-chrome-extension-that-lets-you-bulk-unfollow-everyone/ https://techstory.in/facebook-quashed-chrome-extension-that-... I stumbled over it back then due to the unavoidable Streisand effect and happily so. Combined with "Social Fixer" (see https://socialfixer.com https://socialfixer.com for information), this made FB much more bearable. Judging by it's CRX id, the code is still available via https://extpose.com/ext/pijkodjelolnmbehifeokihlodnajela/en https://extpose.com/ext/pijkodjelolnmbehifeokihlodnajela/en (look for github on the page).

KomoD 3y ago

There's free tools, so nothing.

broadwayinc 3y ago

I would use it if it was free. And even if it was a payed service, It would be a 1 time thing so I don't see it as a good business model.

pomdevv 3y ago
yea