carlosdrave on Nostr: Everyone tells you to leave Twitter but nobody tells you HOW. I’m leaving Twitter ...

Everyone tells you to leave Twitter but nobody tells you HOW.

I’m leaving Twitter and Instagram, but this isn’t mentally easy, social media is a perfectly dialled drug. I left FB a couple of years ago cold turkey and it wasn’t easy.

So HOW am I leaving Twitter?

1. I deleted the app. This makes it inconvenient to access the platform without the stress of deleting the account. This *should* be enough but eventually you are going to reinstall it.

2. I have a “good motive”. I left FB after getting in a lot of useless arguments regarding the pandemic. It felt draining, and it’s how Twitter feels now.

3. I’m a father now, and I “need to be the change I want to see in the world”. Social media corporations literally want to rot your brain. Even if you are a perfect content creator, you are just bringing potential victims to the platform. You work for the man, for no pay. And nobody is “just lurking”. Opt out, I know I am.

4. I’m going through all my bookmarks. It surprises me how “useless” they are. Yes, they look like “signal” but why and I saving them? To own somebody else? Am I building a case against the world? Grow up Carlos.

5. I *want* to share stuff I’ve learned as a human. But a big platform with bad incentives is worse than a small platform with good incentives by orders of magnitude. (Do I even need to figure this out? I already have people I love I can share those experiences with.)

6. If you are an aldult my age, “signal” shouldn’t really be found every x number of tweets. You should have a good mental model by now, a good set of heuristics and values, which should guide you in the right direction, whatever new data comes along.
What you think is signal is just confirmation bias most of the time.

7. You can’t change anyone on social media, we can barely teach our kids.
Your intentions don’t matter, your words don’t matter, only your actions. Kids teach you that.

Wish me luck.