Realizations about actually avoiding social media

I’ve had or re-had a few realizations lately that have helped me greatly:

1. Crossposting to or across social media is counterproductive if doing so to avoid social media. Applies to POSSE too.
2. Having a domain for micro thoughts, day-to-day photos, comments, and random musings is a waste of time and effort. Not all links need to be permanent.
3. I’m better off avoiding all social media timelines even if I may have followed all the “good” people on not-evil, non-popular social networks. Mastodon, Bluesky, Micro.blog — it doesn’t matter, it’s all the same in the end. I want non-social-media versions of people so I can continue liking them.
4. I’m not giving a single dollar for social media related posting or consumption.
5. My posts not going viral on social media is great. It means I’m expressing organically and choosing reality.
6. Reading only one longform blog post that turns out to be of minimal value is better than reading a hundred random microthoughts.

I’ve been trying to avoid living an internet without intent by embracing a simple but effective digital life since the last year. It’s been working wonders but there are moments every week where I fallback to bad habits. These realizations above might just be the final piece of the puzzle.

Originally published on my blog Journal J, which you can subscribe for free here.