The Web Is Flucked

Almost. It’s more like The Web Is Fucked. I’m not really up or down on swearing so much, but having harsh language in a post title crosses a boundary with me.

Anyways, from the linked site:

I’m not saying you should avoid all social media – that shit’s pretty much impossible these days and is reserved mainly for social pariahs.

You can choose which social platforms you use and how to use them so that it’s done in a healthy way. Here are some tips:

• Get the fuck off Facebook. That shit is a cancer.
• Look for decentralised alternatives, like Mastodon.
• Break your dopamine addiction and turn off all notifications from social media. This way you check it when you want to, rather then when it tells you to.
• Familiarise yourself with POSSE and make your site the single source of truth for all your online content.

I hung on to one social media account in the last few years, the one I had on Goodreads. I justified it by the fact that I had an author account there, and could promote new blog posts and any new books there. Amazon bought Goodreads out some time ago, and really it became an extension for Amazon to promote the books it wanted to. We have no way of knowing how honest those 5-star reviews and promoted books in blog posts are. Despite the decent interactions I had one there were, that last social media account of mine was shut down.

Anyways, I thought the list was decent advice to take. IndieWeb has some good resources on how to go about decentralizing away from monolithic social media structures; I realized I do a form of selfdogfooding when I post recipes I actually refer to on this silly blog. The lure of social media distraction weighs heavily, painfully, automatically, like a reflex action on a swollen limb. It’s really best to get rid of it all and figure out a way to live outside of the digital ghettos.