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Hey everyone, how offended would you all be upset if I just mass unfollowed everyone ever on all social media?

I'm just tired of having a constant distracting feed of random thoughts, upsetting things, porn, cool stuff to spend money on, and distracting articles.

Like I really like being mutuals and having online friendships but the feeds just kinda really mess with my mental health in a bad way.

I have given some thought to this. The problem is that the social platforms automatically pull in feeds of replies to the profiles that one follows. There needs to be a default option to refrain from fetching any of that, and let the others opt in.

I am already tired of it. I can't count how many pieces of porn have showed up in my feed in the past couple of days. It is like running around to put out a brush fire just to block those accounts.

I believe that the original poster of a thread should be the moderator of that thread network-wide. That is one step in the right direction. If you start a thread, you can moderate it, either by default, or by delete, whichever flag you choose.

Coupling that with only pulling the posts of your follows would eliminate the lion's share of the noise.

Another way is to follow the RSS feeds of profiles you like, as you will only see their posts in the RSS reader. Then you don't even log in to the social site unless you want to comment. Usually RSS readers will have a link to the post you are reading so you can click the link and then comment, and return to the RSS feed list. QuiteRSS works well for me.

If the negativity and information overload is getting you down it is time for a break!

@octade Its the information overload that is getting to me.

As a game developer I'm trying to post progress once a week.

What happens is then I end up obsessively reading everyones stuff on my feeds and getting emotionally upset often.

I know what you are saying. The poison tastes sweet a first.

I'm outta here. Be blessed.

@octade I made the jump on two websites to unfollowing people and it seemed to go well.

It took a lot of time to archive my followers list by hand but it turned out to be useful.

I think I'm going to do it here too.

Good for you. Get out there, grip grass, soak sun, shake hand at clouds, do what lifts you up!
Taylor McCue

@octade Thank you, it was the right choice in the end and I've gained back a lot of time.

Thank you OCTADE!

Glad to see you de-cluttering. Keep plugging away.