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I was on a social media hiatus that lasted ~5 months.
It was great. No X, Mastodon nor BlueSky.
With the extra time:
- Learned vim, neovim (motions and plugins), tmux.
- Read a book per week.
- Progressed the development of my game Brazilian Street Food Simulator
- Started 4 other gamedev projects
- Played World of Warcraft Hardcore (one death = character deleted)
- Played 10s of games from my Steam backlog
- Touched a lot of grass 
I'll still be semi-away, coming back once a week or so.
Instagram and TikTok is not a problem, I didn't use them before anyway. I just had to cut these micro-blogging platforms.
I've been using RescueTime since 2010 and my average recorded time was around 4h/day in these websites.
So by quitting them I have FOUR EXTRA HOURS per day of free time.
I recommend everyone to monitor their online activity. It's so much time wasted in these websites. The 5 minutes doom scrolling every now and then add up.
Now back to the cave. See you in a week (or not).
"But without social media what am I going to do when I have to wait in line or in the toilet or wait at the airport?"
All of these:
Solution 1: have a loaded e-book reader in your smartphone.
Solution 2: SteamDeck.
Solution 3: pen + tiny pocket notebook, to doodle, plan, etc.
Solution 4: do nothing. Mindfulness.
So many alternatives to scrolling social media. I have done/am doing all of these for the past ~5 months.
@alfredbaudisch Sounds awesome! I usually only stop in to check the notifications, respond, post an update then leave for the day. Nothing is ever pressing on social media; real-life is much better. 