Notices by Vijay Prema (vjprema@fosstodon.org)

Trying to get away from this type of language when talking about online experience:

"There are Users consuming content made by creators on apps".

It might sound trivial but notice the humanizing effect when we talk about it more like this instead:

"There are people, looking to enrich their lives with useful information or engage with community online"

#deshittification

If you spend enough time online, that experience constitutes a large amount of the data that conditions your mind.

Even on federated apps, many posts will contain links to non-federated platforms and posts from fediverse users conditioned by those platforms.

Just imagine a chatbot that was only trained on sensationalized algorithmically-fed negative-biased distraction.

This is what your mind will become by default if you don't become aware and carefully moderate your online experience.

@liztai I have had a similar experience over the years. Better sleep after quitting, and making an effort to get off devices entirely a couple hours before sleep. I still do docos, podcasts and books, and read indie blog posts via careful curated RSS, but even then I'm fairly selective now.

I feel less of a need to have an opinion on everything too as I know its mainly temporary noise. Gives me more time and energy for other things, and I get into deeper and more constructive conversation.

@liztai
lol

One thing I realized from this is that when it comes to 15min cities, the big companies and wealthy people stand to lose the most, while small business and average people stand to gain.

@mike @mastohost Looks good. I cant remember exactly but did the icon and logo previously say "fosstodon" and was blue? After update its the default purple Mastodon.