Not Being on Reddit & Twitter is Great!

[DichEvans]

My mental health crashed a few weeks ago and I was just constantly miserable. I deleted my reddit and twitter and honestly, my mental health has never been better. Just something about political spaces on the internet that brings out the worst in people.

Really implore everyone to do it. 

[Bones58]

I would also echo don’t check the news every hour, ignorance sometimes is bliss.

[thechase]

I hear you. While I still occasionally visit reddit, I avoid the political groups and especially the Spider-Man discourse over there. I set up Twitter twice over 2022 and this year and I ended up leaving both times due to trolls and the general unpleasantries.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

I'm mostly unplugged from Twitter and pretty much only keep it to stay in touch with the one friend who won't ditch it, or to find tweets of news items relevant to threads on this board.

On Reddit I basically just lurk in r/startrek, r/wehatemovies, and r/fanedits, infrequently commenting.

[ayumidah]

I tend to only scroll twitter a bit here and there, and when even that gets overwhelming, I leave my phone in a different room, and find something else to do. Never really bothered with Reddit much.

[dirtyoldman]

Wonder if this thread will approach 300 pages like the other?

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

I only use Reddit for Porn...

[The Legend of Groose]

I don't have Twitter on mobile anymore as I was way too addicted to it. Also Elon has made it much easier for me to go "no Twitter I'll do something else". It also helps I have about every political word muted. I'm mostly on there for art anymore, but will talk on BlueSky. However, Blue is not enough to keep me hooked all the time so I'm in a good space at limiting my social media intake.

I don't go to reddit besides maybe sports news but that's it.

[darbus alan]

I really just go to the FF14 subreddit anymore. I rarely used Twitter even before Musk f***ed it up.

[Allie Kitsune]

I've never really been much for Reddit to begin with. I don't feel like I'm missing much of anything.

[An Dog On An Skateboard]

Reddit is weird, there's some good communities and interesting discussion that goes on there, but there's also a prevalence of angry, pedantic nerds who basically ruin everything, and it really does affect your mental wellbeing to expose yourself to that kind of thing regularly. I ditched a lot of the subs that I posted on when I first started using it, and basically now just use a few music and guitar subs where things are generally good natured, and the cricket one, although the latter is veering down quite a nasty and hostile road as nationalist politics from elsewhere seeps in, and "banter" turns into outright abuse and bullying.

Twitter is a f***ing cesspit though.

[salz4life]

Oct 24, 2023 5:52:06 GMT -5 Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! said:

I only use Reddit for Porn...

I wasn't even aware there was any other reason for it. Learn something new every day...

[Malcolm]

I just went through a twitter/x thread.

You're right. f***, that that shit. What a bunch of mouthbreathers.

Reddit's pretty cool when you find the right subreddits, tho. One wrong subrubbit and it's nazitopia, though...

[Eunös ✈]

I use to really enjoy using Twitter (I will never refer to it as X.)

I follow many Artists and that's what My wall use to be.

But as soon as that Idiot took over, out of the blue my feed started to get dominated by Right Wing pages, anti LBGT and Trans Tweets, Just plain nasty stuff.

WTF, if I wanted to see this I'd be following these pages.

I know bad shit is going on in the world, doesn't mean I always need to be reminded.

Need to get away from this shit.

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

Other than this site, I quit social media years ago. Incredibly beneficial to my mental health

[DichEvans]

Oct 24, 2023 0:59:31 GMT -5 DichEvans said:

My mental health crashed a few weeks ago and I was just constantly miserable. I deleted my reddit and twitter and honestly, my mental health has never been better. Just something about political spaces on the internet that brings out the worst in people.

Really implore everyone to do it. 

I will also note, when you are on these sites, there is a good chance you're either interacting with bots or foreign (Russian) trolls who are intentionally trying to cause social rips in our society.

[DichEvans]

Oct 24, 2023 13:51:11 GMT -5 The Summer of Muskrat XVII said:

Other than this site, I quit social media years ago. Incredibly beneficial to my mental health

Even people I disagree with, I noticed I am more prone to like them and understand their perspective when I meet them IRL, as opposed to a faceless and nameless interaction online. 

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

Oct 24, 2023 14:24:43 GMT -5 DichEvans said:

Oct 24, 2023 13:51:11 GMT -5 The Summer of Muskrat XVII said:

Other than this site, I quit social media years ago. Incredibly beneficial to my mental health

Even people I disagree with, I noticed I am more prone to like them and understand their perspective when I meet them IRL, as opposed to a faceless and nameless interaction online. 

I have had some heated conversations in real life about real world shit, but when you’re face to face it’s a lot easier to finish that with “that got intense, can I buy you a beer?”

[Gunhaver]

Oct 24, 2023 9:43:09 GMT -5 An Dog On An Skateboard said:

Reddit is weird, there's some good communities and interesting discussion that goes on there, but there's also a prevalence of angry, pedantic nerds who basically ruin everything

Reddit taught me that the biggest group of people who hate Magic: the Gathering is people who play Magic: the Gathering.

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Agreed! I deleted both a while ago. I tried Threads as a news feed, but it’s anodyne and sterile. I use instagram as sort of a photo repository, but that’s about it other than here and one other forum about sports logos and uniforms.