Had twitter, deleted an account twice (1st time as I was fed up with it, 2nd time I still didn’t see the use of it and Musk bought it)
Have fb, didn;t use it for years, wanted to delete account but ‘due to EU law change you must choose between targeted ads or subscription of €12.99 a month before you have acces tto your account’. There is no option to delete without either coonsent or paying. (So it’ll either linger forever of finally get deleted)
Have Reddit, still check in from time to time in 3 game related subs, ditched the rest.
Have Discord account, but again only game related.
Lemmy is the only account I have that’s closest to ‘random social’, rest, is either topic specific or ignored.
Reddit is PC only (browser), Lemmy is small reading tablet only, discord is pc and mobile, as I run 1 server for a game related team I’m leader of. Only personal mentiones may give a silent notification.
Can you live without socials: I’d say yeah. The random sewer socials (FB/xitter) are ditched here, what’s active I see more as fora then social media.
Have fb, didn;t use it for years, wanted to delete account but ‘due to EU law change you must choose between targeted ads or subscription of €12.99 a month before you have acces tto your account’. There is no option to delete without either coonsent or paying. (So it’ll either linger forever of finally get deleted)
Are you sure? Just took the chance and deleted my deactivated account without any hick-ups.
Had twitter, deleted an account twice (1st time as I was fed up with it, 2nd time I still didn’t see the use of it and Musk bought it)
Have fb, didn;t use it for years, wanted to delete account but ‘due to EU law change you must choose between targeted ads or subscription of €12.99 a month before you have acces tto your account’. There is no option to delete without either coonsent or paying. (So it’ll either linger forever of finally get deleted)
Have Reddit, still check in from time to time in 3 game related subs, ditched the rest.
Have Discord account, but again only game related.
Lemmy is the only account I have that’s closest to ‘random social’, rest, is either topic specific or ignored.
Reddit is PC only (browser), Lemmy is small reading tablet only, discord is pc and mobile, as I run 1 server for a game related team I’m leader of. Only personal mentiones may give a silent notification.
Can you live without socials: I’d say yeah. The random sewer socials (FB/xitter) are ditched here, what’s active I see more as fora then social media.
Are you sure? Just took the chance and deleted my deactivated account without any hick-ups.
I quit playing games as i have no benefits over it.