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I’ve been off Twitter and all social media except for Nostr for a month now, and the results are hard to argue with. I’ve started reading real books again (4 this month) and have noticed both my patience and attention increase noticeably. I also feel less angry and anxiety daily, along with being committed to my workout routine. I found that Nostr has met my social media needs, most importantly, my own ability to self-limit with it. Nostr is a bit ‘boring’ compared to traditional social media because ITS NOT TRYING TO KILL YOU!!! Controlling your own data isn’t nearly as important in terms of ownership, as it is about allowing that information to be used against you. All of your most intimate thoughts and feelings are data mining by massive corporations specifically to find emotional triggers for you, so they can sell you shit, or force thoughts on to you. Fuck these people that run these companies that farm our emotions to sell us shit, and to work with corrupt government to censor our speech, sell out dissidents, and destroy our internet. We are much, much, much more powerful than they will ever be because we don’t need force, corrosion, or permission to run these systems of social connections that they cannot destroy. My month of social media detox has really lifted the veil from the hate industry complex that are all social media companies today. Stop prostitution your content, thoughts and powers to these shitty companies that enrich the scum of the earth, and empower illegal, unconstitutional and immoral government agencies from their dragnet surveillance. I’ll make one last tweet explaining this and then nuking my account in the next few weeks. Then I’ll be Nostr only.

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Large media studies people's desires, feeds desires through algorithms and controls people's daily emotions. It makes people addicted and consumes a lot of people's energy on some hot spots that are meaningless to our lives. We are not using these media tools, we are being enslaved by them. We should let AI serve us. But once large technology companies master the best AI technology, they will make AI more traceless to make people fall into the gentle land of algorithms. Until everyone's emotions and attention are drained. Because the advertising business model requires more attention from people, the more attention they pay, the more ads they can buy. We need an open #Nostr because we can migrate our contacts and data at any time, without being forced to use large social media that sells our attention and emotions because of contacts and data. image
I understand why you don't like Twitter, I have always been allergic to it. Every time I followed a link to a Twitter page and read a few extra replies, I got the emotional equivalent of hives and nausea. Since these links to Twitter post now only expose the single post made by someone, it's much better! But what I don't get, yet, is what Nostr is supposed to be good for. I don't feel like I can search for Nostr content to educate myself, nor can I get my questions exposed to the right persons so they can answer them, nor can I get exposed to questions by others which I might be able to answer. It might just be a matter of time until I find a reason, but so far it often feels like a waste of time to scroll around Nostr, just because I like Freedom Tech.
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welcome to thr #nostr tribe! Don't worry it is normal to feel a lil bit lost because his is new to ypur way of interacting social media. As someone who is fairly new here like yourself, less than a month of consistent use of Nostr. Here what I found: 1.) You need to make an effort to find the content, people and tribe that you want to connect with. For starters, explore the hashtag which every Nostr client has it. 2.) Helping guides about Nostr: I posted a note here with the links and feel free to read them: https://njump.me/nevent1qqsduxtxw6c25xrzajz7ntd7hw9f9lg38fekunrug29g7t9mpsq640spzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsygzh9xkejxn7pjugjuww6g6gwkqs27gd2ytq5zdj95xc7ww2wck7zypsgqqqqqqsplxsua 3.) Nostr is new and so does its clients. Therefore, take your time and be patient with it. Importantly, you are thr algorithm. It means you choose which client suits your needs. You may prefer a client that has algorithm like the centralised platforms that feeds onto your attention (luckily this is not available yet but it does not mean technically impossible!) or you could choose clients that are less evasive on your attention, read notes in chronological order or by hashtags or by topics. The topic categories is getting better. 4.) Lastly, if you have questions, I find that using #asknostr is very helpful. A lot of people respond to questions through it because I used it a lot. I hope this helps and we are excited to have you around! 👌🤓🎉👏 Cheers, M
Controlling your data is secondary; the primary thing, and what nostr enables, is taking back control of your mind.
Erik Cason 's avatar Erik Cason
I’ve been off Twitter and all social media except for Nostr for a month now, and the results are hard to argue with. I’ve started reading real books again (4 this month) and have noticed both my patience and attention increase noticeably. I also feel less angry and anxiety daily, along with being committed to my workout routine. I found that Nostr has met my social media needs, most importantly, my own ability to self-limit with it. Nostr is a bit ‘boring’ compared to traditional social media because ITS NOT TRYING TO KILL YOU!!! Controlling your own data isn’t nearly as important in terms of ownership, as it is about allowing that information to be used against you. All of your most intimate thoughts and feelings are data mining by massive corporations specifically to find emotional triggers for you, so they can sell you shit, or force thoughts on to you. Fuck these people that run these companies that farm our emotions to sell us shit, and to work with corrupt government to censor our speech, sell out dissidents, and destroy our internet. We are much, much, much more powerful than they will ever be because we don’t need force, corrosion, or permission to run these systems of social connections that they cannot destroy. My month of social media detox has really lifted the veil from the hate industry complex that are all social media companies today. Stop prostitution your content, thoughts and powers to these shitty companies that enrich the scum of the earth, and empower illegal, unconstitutional and immoral government agencies from their dragnet surveillance. I’ll make one last tweet explaining this and then nuking my account in the next few weeks. Then I’ll be Nostr only.
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Good vibes after reading this. It is mind blowing how the socials are just tools to get data to feed the AIs and in turn profits. Everything you said I have experienced myself as well. Nuking a large social account has always been matched within the fear of leaving other vulnerable ones behind. We need ways to bring those who don’t into the fold.
Eric, I have also been off for around a month or so and I totally agree it has really helped my mental health with X specifically. I am loving #nostr, loving the community and the #bitcoin content on it as well. Never realized how bad the psyops on X were until you step away from it for a while. Typically, do that leading up to a presidential election anyways, but not going back.
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I think the best way to detox is to get a smart watch with a data connection and just use that instead of your phone. You can do all the phone things but you cant use social media or the web. It’s kind of like having a flip phone. Sometimes I leave my phone at home, and just use my watch. I can get my insurance card, I can pay for things, I can text, I can listen to music and podcasts
I couldn't agree more. I did the same for 10 days, and the results were quite similar. I was WAY more productive at work, more patient, and my mood was so much better. It's not easy, to be honest. The craving kicks in, and you might miss out on interesting/valuable things, but so far, I believe it's worth it.
i did the same thing but didn't call it "social media detox" i called it "dopamine fasting" but it worked the same - less angry, more focused and motivated. i only do it when i feel i am getting off track in the real world though, then once i feel i'm back on track i get back on X.
The other thing to mention is, the average quality of posting on X these days is very poor. I created a normie outreach account with good intentions. But I ended up interacting regularly with content that was so bad that I couldn't bear it and I had to rethink things. Unless you know specifically who you want to engage with, and no doubt there are some quality accounts still, you will come across the average content, which is extremely low effort and low information. The other obvious problem is all the fake people. The site is absolutely overrun with fake accounts now. Sometimes you will see different accounts posting the same thing with a few hours gap between. A side effect of the AI revolution is that the internet is now spammed with fake people. And as it becomes harder to distinguish between real humans and bots, it becomes less justifiable to use the platforms that are overrun with the latter. Not least because sorting fact from fiction even in identity becomes that much harder. Of course, the news is all fake now, so you're not missing much there. What a world!
Aprovechando las vacaciones he estado bastante desconectado de Twitter y ahora que empiezo a volver me identifico mucho con las palabras de Erik. Voy a pasar más tiempo en Nostr y menos en X
Erik Cason 's avatar Erik Cason
I’ve been off Twitter and all social media except for Nostr for a month now, and the results are hard to argue with. I’ve started reading real books again (4 this month) and have noticed both my patience and attention increase noticeably. I also feel less angry and anxiety daily, along with being committed to my workout routine. I found that Nostr has met my social media needs, most importantly, my own ability to self-limit with it. Nostr is a bit ‘boring’ compared to traditional social media because ITS NOT TRYING TO KILL YOU!!! Controlling your own data isn’t nearly as important in terms of ownership, as it is about allowing that information to be used against you. All of your most intimate thoughts and feelings are data mining by massive corporations specifically to find emotional triggers for you, so they can sell you shit, or force thoughts on to you. Fuck these people that run these companies that farm our emotions to sell us shit, and to work with corrupt government to censor our speech, sell out dissidents, and destroy our internet. We are much, much, much more powerful than they will ever be because we don’t need force, corrosion, or permission to run these systems of social connections that they cannot destroy. My month of social media detox has really lifted the veil from the hate industry complex that are all social media companies today. Stop prostitution your content, thoughts and powers to these shitty companies that enrich the scum of the earth, and empower illegal, unconstitutional and immoral government agencies from their dragnet surveillance. I’ll make one last tweet explaining this and then nuking my account in the next few weeks. Then I’ll be Nostr only.
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100% same here. I actually left exactly the same day. I remember reading your post that day :) Is such a relief! I honestly changed the way I think. I’ve been to influenced by that contaminated Twitter feed. Horrible. I feel free of that shit. Much nicer and relaxed. And like you, doing many other things that adds much more value to my life and mental health! 👌
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Erik Cason 's avatar Erik Cason
I’ve been off Twitter and all social media except for Nostr for a month now, and the results are hard to argue with. I’ve started reading real books again (4 this month) and have noticed both my patience and attention increase noticeably. I also feel less angry and anxiety daily, along with being committed to my workout routine. I found that Nostr has met my social media needs, most importantly, my own ability to self-limit with it. Nostr is a bit ‘boring’ compared to traditional social media because ITS NOT TRYING TO KILL YOU!!! Controlling your own data isn’t nearly as important in terms of ownership, as it is about allowing that information to be used against you. All of your most intimate thoughts and feelings are data mining by massive corporations specifically to find emotional triggers for you, so they can sell you shit, or force thoughts on to you. Fuck these people that run these companies that farm our emotions to sell us shit, and to work with corrupt government to censor our speech, sell out dissidents, and destroy our internet. We are much, much, much more powerful than they will ever be because we don’t need force, corrosion, or permission to run these systems of social connections that they cannot destroy. My month of social media detox has really lifted the veil from the hate industry complex that are all social media companies today. Stop prostitution your content, thoughts and powers to these shitty companies that enrich the scum of the earth, and empower illegal, unconstitutional and immoral government agencies from their dragnet surveillance. I’ll make one last tweet explaining this and then nuking my account in the next few weeks. Then I’ll be Nostr only.
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