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ChrisMarshallNYyesterday at 8:46 PM0 repliesview on HN

I just stopped using Facebook, a number of months ago. It just wasn't giving me anything, and half the posts I made, were flagged as spam (of course, with zero appeal ability; when you appeal, and every time, it's denied, then that's no recourse). I tended to do "Lookit this!" types of posts, where I either referenced a project that I'd released, or some Web site that I thought was worth sharing.

I've never really used Twitter, and I don't browse YouTube, or bother looking at comments.

I had stopped reading my feed, a couple of years ago. It was just old white people, screaming at each other.

> set my YouTube to stop suggesting to me via algorithm

This suggests a less-than-total commitment to backing out. I would consider "no social" to mean not even visiting the site, or running the app.

In my case, this is about the only place I engage in anything like social media. I would have to stop reading HN to be "no social," and I'm not interested in doing that.