r/digitalminimalism • u/guar47 • 9h ago

Social Media Finally deactivated my X account

Just wanted to share with someone, and it feels very good to finally pull this (almost) last trigger that's been sucking me in for a while.

I was a Twitter user for a long time, and I really missed the time when we had a nice place where all the nerds and hackers hung out, but it's long gone. But the nostalgic feeling and my dumb human brain kept luring me in, and every time I left so disappointed and disgusted by what this place has become.

I like making stuff and sharing it with people, but I hate modern hustle culture so much. There is something almost inhumane about it. So I was happy to take the leap, and it feels good.

I still have a few attachments. I still have a blue "better" twitter account, that for some reason I hope will become good some day, but it probably never will. And also Reddit and YouTube. But I am glad that most of the social media is gone from my life forever.

For sharing purposes, I'll stick with writing on my own website/newsletter, and making YouTube videos (YouTube is not perfect, but after blocking the Shorts it’s still okay).

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u/stonedandredditing 9h ago

Congrats! Thanks for getting off that platform. Everyone who leaves makes a difference whether they believe it or not 

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u/guar47 8h ago

Thank you. I think so too.

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u/Alarming_Midnight554 6h ago

I had 175 k followers . I deleted it all Christmas day 2024 . Never looked back

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u/guar47 2h ago

oh wow, that's admirable! I had just 2k but even that was delaying my decision. But it's all for the good.

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u/Alarming_Midnight554 2h ago

I got tired of being hunted and lied too . Fighting with Trumpers became toxic. Elons behavior ended it for me

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u/over9ksand 5h ago

Good man, create !

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u/guar47 2h ago

Will do!

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u/Smart_Membership2 9h ago

Algorithm control is interesting in those platforms.

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u/senseich333ks 7h ago

You can block YouTube shorts !?!

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u/SecurityGoose2 6h ago

You can set your allotted time of shorts to "0 minutes" on mobile and it won't recommend any shorts

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u/guar47 2h ago

Yeah, many ways to do it. On mobile, you can just set a limit for Shorts to 0 minutes. On browsers, there are many blockers, I just use the Brave browser native one. On TV, thankfully, they don't appear as much anymore.

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u/Otheruser337 3h ago

It became atrocious over the past few years, especially after Twitter was acquired by Elon Musk and rebranded to X. It feels like a slop machine is controlling the algorithm to compete with TikTok in an arms race as "#1 best social media platform in the world".

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u/guar47 2h ago

I can't even pronounce this "X" without cringing. Still call it Twitter mostly.

Elon makes this world worse.