Aaron Zavala - August 24, 2026 10:06

I've been thinking about my social media usage in light of a few posts: Harrison's post, There Will Never Be a Version of Twitter that’s Healthy for Me Olly Headey's posts, Minimalising and The urge to be anti-social Alan Jacobs' post commenting on Ezra Klein's opinion article in the New York Times My own post from an experiment I did earlier this year, Some reflections from the reading break I think I want to try out being off Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, et al., not merely for a week, but maybe for like a few months if not more. I will see what it's like keeping up with others' blogs via RSS, posting here as I'd like, and enjoy more time offline. Want to see what this feels like and what comes of it.I feel like when I've read other people who have announced this kind of thing ("I'm deleting Twitter," "I'm getting off Instagram," etc.) it almost feels to me like they are announcing they will be living on a different plane of existence from the rest of us, like suddenly the world is…