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delis-thumbs-7e: What the fuck is this article/blog post? It quotes Albert Camus (first in my opinion misinterpreting his ethical stance) by kinking to some bullshit AI quote generator? https://philosophical.chat/quotes/freedom-is-nothing-else-bu...I agree with the writer on principle (yes leaving social media is good for you), but I’m not sure are these AI quotes to suppose to be just some cruel joke on any academic rigour? This type of vibe academia artsy nonsense serves no purpose and is just pseudo-intellectual clutter. Please just stop. Get a job at a gas station or something.
donatj: Social media left me. I at one time had a decent following on Twitter, just under a thousand people. I could post something I was pondering about and get a whole handful of peoples opinions.I once pondered why Apple wouldn't distribute their iPhone updates peer-to-peer and got multiple network engineers far more knowledgeable than me letting me know why that would be a bad idea.It was fun and genuinely social. My following on what is now X has halved in number, but cut far deeper in practice. When I do find myself compelled to post on X, I have two former colleagues that heart and occasionally reply. This is the extent of the interactions I have on the platform.I created an account on Bluesky account but in my several years of largely shadowing my X posts on Bluesky I've amassed all of twenty followers.Talking to a friend about it, I was basically told I was doing social media wrong. No one cares about "dude wonders about tech" posts anymore. Fine I guess. I never really sought a following, it just kind of happened.X in particular I find only really boosts big creators, whatever Twitters discovery algorithm was where I would find interesting posts by people with a couple followers is long gone.Instagram and Facebook, once places I'd reserved for friends are now just ghost towns trying to fake life with AI slop.I miss social media, I miss having genuinely deep discussions with people I did not know over shared interests. None of the current providers seem interested in providing an outlet for this.I feel I suspect a similar grief over not being perceived as the author, but it wasn't really of my choosing.
illusive4080: I’m leaving social media, how far does one go? X and Facebook? YouTube? Hacker news comment sections? Signal group chats with strangers?The author doesn’t discuss any of the particulars.
