I've been using Mastodon – a free and open source, decentralized social media platform and a compelling alternative to corporate-controlled platforms like Facebook and Twitter – regularly since June of 2019. Mastodon is part of the Fediverse – a collection of inter-connected apps developed around ActivityPub, an open, decentralized social networking protocol.
I enjoy reading books. Real, physical books with paper pages that you keep on a shelf when you're not reading them.
Reading on a phone, tablet, or even a dedicated eBook reader just isn't the same.
We are bombarded – assaulted – with imagery and noise all day.
Every day.
Everything is picture. Everything is sound.
Carefully designed to entice, provoke, enrage, influence, addict, stimulate, manipulate, subdue.
The purpose? Lucre. Extracted directly from us or collected from others who are willing to pay for our most precious resource:
Time.
Time is more than money. It's power.
Tomorrow is shaped by what is done today.
If you give them your time today, you let them shape your tomorrow.
Captivation leads to captivity.
Protect your time. Don't squander it.
#100DaysToOffload (No. 5) #intentionism #media
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In a recent interview, I heard J. Max Wilson talk about how he'd been doing a 7-day social media fast each month starting with Fast Sunday. That sounded like an excellent idea to me and I decided to adapt it for my own situation and give it a try.