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HowTo Social Media

Social Media is a dystopian hell machine. It’s bad for your privacy and health. Don’t use it.

By using minimalism/essentialism practices we can mitigate it and its problems.

  • Remove any social media accounts if possible
  • Use RSS to get posts from blogs/channels/community…
  • Setup XMPP/Matrix bridge with your friends/work group chats
  • Move to secure messenger (XMPP)
  • If you have to use social media, keep it minimal:
    • Define what you need from social media (e.g. yt video development - you need to post new videos and answer comments)
    • Disable notifications
    • Disable any unnecesarry for your needs features (like feed, stories, channels, group chats…)
    • Make sure it does only what you need from it and nothing more that may lure you to do what you don’t want to (e.g. scroll videos)
    • Create separate account
    • Create separate phone profile/user to use social media
    • Use DnD (Do not Distrube)
    • Use more private alternative (youtube -> invidious)

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