Like, we’re in an interesting era of times where so many alternatives are cropping up because of the drastic and draconic practices that have been taken on the social media platforms we’ve commonly embraced. But eventually, starting new can get tiring after a while.
Lemmy is increasing it, since I’m spending more time on here to help participate. I check in like every couple hours and try to find a few things to post in different places every day.
I’m doing it on purpose though, since this is a helpful time to assist the community grow by contributing and helping curate content. It’s a delicate time when there’s more work to be done than users to do it. It won’t be that way forever, though, and I know I can take a social media break whenever I want, so it’s fine. Not my first rodeo, I know what I’m about. But yes it’s a little tiring. Not even just starting over, but maintaining the participation in general.
Tbh I’ve found that the only thing that has been keeping me online is that I really don’t know what to do when I’m by myself and waiting for something to happen or time to pass infact when I visited Florida to check out the college I’m about to go to I was very surprised by how little time I spent on reddit then when I got back home all I noticed how I only ever doom scrolled on reddit so I’d probably say I’ve already burned out it’s ether that or all the entertaining posters left reddit long before the API change
Maybe im in the minority as Ive never had an account on any social media. I have no interest in following anyone & I can’t stand so called influencers, I buy products on merit not because some numpty tells me to buy it. I don’t class Reddit as social media as I only used it for obtaining/giving information in niche forums.
I’m hoping Lemmy/Kbin will prove just as valuable a resource over time, hopefully I can chime in here & there to help someone occasionally
I really use very few platforms. Was mainly Reddit, now mainly Kbin. No Facebook, no Twitter, no Instagram, too old for Snapchat.
I stopped visiting Facebook several years ago. I think it was for two reasons:
- I decided it was unhealthy for my in real life relationships to see how people behaved on Facebook.
- When I noticed that Facebook was showing me way more “suggested” crap than stuff from my friends.
I never used Twitter. It just wasn’t for me.
Maybe too old and too much of a curmudgeon for Instagram and Snapchat.
Leaving Reddit was going to be hard. I tried Mastodon but, like Twitter, that wasn’t what I was looking for.
When I found kbin, I made the switch and that’s it. I have one sub I still check out on Reddit, but here if used to be daily, now it’s a few times a week. It’s continue to diminish I’m sure as the community on the deliverer grows.
Im burnt out by the current state of social media. I remember when early Facebook where there was more focus on the people and sharing. These days it’s all bots, and ads. Im in a new area and I’m trying to use it to find people to do my hobbies with but it’s been hard.
