how i stay connected as a digital minimalist

When Juni announced her carnival topic, a lot of us in Simple Chats were excited. It’s a Bearblog classic, though it being a carnival topic promised lots of fun insight into how people deal with it. Naturally as someone who’d call himself a luddite (in the original sense: one who is critical of „tech“ and „progress“), I knew I wouldn’t skip this carnival. I began blogging, like many others, because I wanted to nuke a lot of my accounts, among them social media accounts, and it just so happened that I had just read Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism. It wasn’t the book that made me go ahead with it because I was already determined to go through with what I had in mind by the time I got the file loaded onto my phone. If you’re curious about the topic, don’t waste time reading that book or any self-help in general. Spark Notes or the equivalent are more than enough for those. Anyway! I have no social media accounts and don’t use YouTube directly. My RSS reader shows me that I follow 55…