Getting rid of unneccesary bloat

Or, as we say in German: alte Zöpfe abschneiden (cutting off old braids)

Yesterday I finally put my money where my mouth is and deleted both my #LinkedIn- and #Instagram-accounts.

After years of being annoyed and or getting trapped in yet another cycle of doomscrolling I finally set both accounts for deletion. And boy did that feel good. Like "alte Zöpfe abschneiden" good.

What gave me the final push was a customer of my day job - mind you, I am only an employee of the webhosting company, not the owner or CEO - reaching out to me via a "friend" request in LinkedIn. I didn't even have anything to do with them, didn't connect via prior mails, chats or calls.
And while I do get their frustration it felt like a serious breach of privacy to be contacted that way.

Anywho - I am already looking forward to getting rid of more unneccesary and/or evil bloat and cutting myself off of big tech even more.

What are your "braids" that you still need to get rid of?

@pepdmin for me it's WhatsApp. Even though I have Signal, DeltaChat and Matrix set up people refuse to convert from WhatsApp. Impossible to even get them to consider it. Frustrates me.

Apart from that I only use Google on a "slop" phone, a phone only used and reserved for banks, govt etc. I dont have FB, X, Insta nor any of the rest thankfully

@epn4littlefedi
I feel your pain.
I have telegram,Signal, DeltaChat and Matrix myself, always resisted WA.
I wouldn't mind getting rid of telegram and signal (too many limitation for my use), but the inertia is just huge