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.
But lately I've been questioning if I have to do the whole following thing or if it'd be okay to just not have posts to read and only just post once a week with updates and saying hi to people.
Is it okay to mass unfollow for mental health reasons or is doing that considered mass abandoning/insulting friends?
@taylormccue I think you should do what you think is best for you If social media is a lot to deal with, how about a blog? That way people can subscribe with RSS to keep up with your updates without also inundating you with their own posts. I think some blogs even let you follow via ActivityPub so functionally it would be like following you on Mastodon
@renkotsuban I appreciate that. For weeks now I've been kinda dreaming about like unfollowing and having the feeds stop since they're just too much at once and I can't stop scrolling once I start.
But I'm afraid of just like mass losing all the friendships here since I genuinely like chatting with people sometimes on here.
I think I'm going to wait 24 hours and if there isn't a massive amount of pushback do it.
@octade @renkotsuban Thank you, I am planning on waiting 24+ hours and then maybe doing that.
I use cold turkey to block social media during my work time but sometimes when I need to have it open like for releasing a new game/translation I've looked at the damage it's done to me and questioned why I keep these feeds up at all.