You've Only Wasted Your Life in Social Control Networks
On time spent in social media [sic], visualised:
About 4 years ago I made the decision to quit all social control media (all of it in one go). Do I regret that? No, I only regretted that I hadn't done so a lot earlier (except partially).
Did I "suffer" from not being in social control media? Heck, no. I saved a lot of time by not having to bother with notifications (set aside posting; the "work" doesn't end when you merely post there; Torvalds should know) and could instead focus on writing long-form articles, as I had done before joining Identica in 2009.
People are made/compelled to wrongly assume that without social control media nobody will read or see anything they produce. Well, people who do spend time in social control media very well understand that being in social control media is no guarantee of visibility either. Many so-called 'producers' or 'influencers' wrongly and foolishly trusted Google's YouTube; in more recent years some of them just suddenly lost over 90% of their viewers (Google's fault, not theirs). Now what? After "investing" in a lot of video equipment or racking up debt (while raking in no income) for travel to "special" places. In a sense, social control media is a giant delusion. It destroys many people, both mentally and physically. Like they celebrities who rise and fall so quickly that they end up depressed and dependent on hard drugs (to replicate the lost thrill/fame).
So far today, since midnight (18 hours), we've served close to a million hits over the Web and Gemini Protocol. We have absolutely no presence in social control media, but people find this site and come back to this site because it interests them, not because they left comments here and want to check if someone replied to (or "liked") their comment. █