Stopped using Facebook because it’s a toxic dumping ground of content that seems targeted at me, with the intent of making me more miserable than usual. Everyone I was friends with stopped posting interesting or funny things, and now it’s just baby pics or politics. No thanks.

Mastodon. I’ve cut out instagram, twitter, reddit and bereal because bla bla bla generic fediverse enthusiast rant

Left Facebook years ago out of boredom and refuse to use anything owned by it, left Reddit because of the API changes, and now trying to leave Twitter except for maybe posting art from the mismanagement and toxicity.

I’m mostly on Tumblr now, but I’m also trying alternative social sites such as here, Cohost, Inkblot (more art focused), and Masto.

I use Snapchat and LinkedIn (and I’m still not sure exactly why).

Stopped using Facebook, twitter and Reddit completely.

My life got so much better when I ditched Facebook, I was stuck in a daily routine of just scrolling through ads and stupid posts on ridiculous groups, and though I felt it made me in a bad mood constantly, I just continued.

It was such a relief to leave it for good.

Leaving Reddit was a lot harder, since I actually enjoyed many of the subs, but Lemmy is growing fast and it’s already feeling quite good scrolling through my front page.

I deleted my Facebook back in 2017 thanks to a ProPublica story. From my recollection, reporters tried to place an ad on Facebook for apartment rentals and exclude Black people from the ad targeting. The ad went through and it was live for like a day, then ProPublica pulled the ad and published the story. A Facebook spokesperson said something to the effect of, “the targeting options are generated by an algorithm so we didn’t realize you could exclude Black people from apartment ads, oops, we’ll fix it”.

So the same reporters tried again a year later, same ad, same targeting settings. It went through again. So I got rid of Facebook and lost contact with quite a few people from high school. Best decision I ever made!

I’m not sure if Snapchat counts but I use that because it’s basically just Texting 2.0.

I use Instagram pretty regularly, have dropped facebook altogether and will delete my reddit account on Tuesday.

Some people call whatsapp a social media app, which I don’t agree to. But yeah I’m using that a lot.

I use mastodon and matrix, that’s it.

I’m on Matrix and GoToSocial (both selfhosted).

I also made an alt on kbin which is probably where I’ll probably end up migrating the “serious” discussion to, so this account will really end up as my shitposting account just like it did back at Reddit.

I also have an account on Tildes under a different name and from a long time ago.

All of these are different enough that I end up checking on all of them quite regularly.

Oh and I have a Discord too but it just feels too overwhelming how fast most guilds (they’re not servers and I will die on this hill) move so I really use it to check for updates on shit like Sync’s Lemmy port instead of posting memes or whatever.

And finally: YouTube & WhatsApp. both of which are unescapeable. I’ve tried.

As for the ones I cut off: Facebook around 2015, Instagram since so long ago I forgot, got banned off Twitter several times, and I’m waiting until Reddit gives my GDPR export to bail from there as well.

Edit: Oh, they processed my GDPR export. Brb off to delete my account