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Why not just get rid of social media? That’s what I did. Well, I have a hackernews account but that’s it
by purple-leafy 3y ago
Why not just get rid of social media? That’s what I did. Well, I have a hackernews account but that’s it
- inatreecrown2 3y agodo you watch YouTube videos?
- purple-leafy 3y agoIncreasingly less. I’m giving away my tv tomorrow lol. I realise YouTube is just as bad with its influencers
- modeless 3y agoThere is a lot to be gained from social media, once filtered. It's not all bad.
- purple-leafy 3y agoI think there is lots to gain from Wikipedia, but increasingly social media is being gamed and politicised and manipulated. For me the cons outweigh the pros heavily. I don’t even read the news. I feel incredibly free and happy with basically no online presence. Best I’ve ever felt. All I need is Wikipedia, hacker news, and a couple of books. Coding and coding books gives me all I need. Next step is to buy some GPUs to get away from hosted LLMs and start running them locally. Then I am truly free and information dense and self sufficient