I decided to detox myself

Detox social network

After I am shocked and asking help to my close friend, I decided to detox myself from using any social media, both centralised and decentralised. With exception, I keep my accounts on Peertube under MakerTube, Funkwhale under Funkwhale Italia, YouTube (with new account), and some podcast platform both for consuming good content and content creation.

I was already told people on Facebook that I am stopping to use fediverse due to the unstable behaviour behalf on myself. Until then, I just make them as “newspaper” rather than communicating with them. Sometimes, I have too much consuming the inappropiate content like what my friend Yonle told me. History stuff, geopolitics, government stuff, hot news, and more. Those have effect to my brain and affects how I am communicating with people.

Also, my friend Runa told me to do what she was doing to make detox effective. She told me to getting back to old style communication modes such as emails and IRCs (I was there, and still registered at Libera Chat), and also reducing to follow the trends. Well, it seems not complicated at theories, but for practices, I am trying hard. Well, since I have joined bunch of communities that suits with my job both as Software Developer and SysAdmin, I am getting new insight and I decide to put my times into more reasonable hobbies such as making programs and learn about developer experiences (DX).

The thing is, detoxing is quite hard at first, but this is the requirments that I should face to prevent more damages on my mental health. Also, as people with bipolar, I am really need to control my neuronic environment and manage the stress to prevent unstable behaviour breaks out. That's why I choose to detox both on centralised and decentralised, except for content distribution. I am nearly compared to Lain Iwakura from SE Lain, but worse.

During my detox time, I am just communicating with close relative and few communities that I trusted. Also, I am keep writing the post when I needed to on this instances and start over from zero for content comsumption by making new Google account and subscribe some insightful channels about vintage computers, tech stuff, and more on YouTube in new accounts. For my presence on Facebook and Instagram, I want to abandon again in my detox time.

How's my future as VTuber? Since I cannot follow their culture, I decided to be hybrid content creator and start over from zero. I want take the inspiration from my friend Faiz Intifada and do my own. Not because VTuber culture is niche, but because it won't fit in my behave.

So, I'll start over my life from zero again and if you want to communicate with me, just email me or find me in communities such as IMPHNEN, The openSUSE Project, Cursor Bandung Community, and GNU/Weeb. I am there and open for you to communicate.

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