the good news is i've been spending much less time on twitter lately, but now every time i go on i just immediately see something that pisses me off, which is good motivation to keep spending less time on twitter
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spending time here is always better and I've definitely noticed my mood has improved by not logging on.
today i accidentally closed my twitter tab and didn't even think about it until like an hour or two later, it was refreshing really
yeah the difference in emotional consequence from spending time on cohost vs twitter is astonishing
same thing happened to me. once you have enough time away, you start to feel like "maybe i actually DON'T have to be hooked into the poison machine"
i find that when i wanna scroll, I first open Tusky (because it's alphabetically near where Twitter was) and then I close that and come here instead. it's really great
The way I've been treating it is, if I go on twitter and I see something that makes me mad, I think "wait, why am I here" and I close the app. I do the same thing on Mastodon except it's when people post about Mastodon.
I have spent less than an hour of the last week or so looking at twitter and I've replaced that time with looking at cohost and being much happier as a result. it turns out just because someone built the torment nexus doesn't mean you have to look at it
Twitter and reddit give me a permafrown while I'm scrolling, but on Cohost it's just like "I should read another essay!"
I straight up deleted the app from my phone recently and it's done wonders for my mental health
i think twitter has gotten even worse recently, for a variety of obvious reasons; but spending time away from it also leads to its negative qualities being more clear regardless of if it's changed. its like taking a break from recrationally drinking cyanide and going from "mmmm, i love drinking poison" to "eugh, this poison tastes disgusting, why am i drinking this?"
Same. It’s so nice to have another place to go that doesn’t make me feel awful. I really like it here. Y’all are doing great!
I gave up on Twitter, maybe two years ago. Deleted my account. I was already on a hiatus where I deleted the app and bookmark to stop checking it. My life improved. It was nice not to be manipulated into being pissed about something and becoming more emotionally exhausting for no reason. So I nuked my account.
