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Not a real thing, you just have high bodyfat and poor eye contact skills. Hope this helps
Just an unrelenting FOSS agenda and weird aversion towards social media ๐ญ
If you avoid technical stuff a lot of people are pretty understanding of not having socials. Instagrsm ks HITLER NOW! Everyone jokes abt it. Way I do it is I just post hiking photos on Insta and other stuff. In order to avoid booting it up yourself, it can be automated with IFTTT (proprietary but so are the datamining services you use it to reach so who care??). Problem is being responsive to notifs but I just check half of them every other day so people don't think you died and hit like
Yeah people have been talking (real life) about their breaks from it and thoughts on leaving the social media sludge whenever I say I don't use that stuff. It's refreshing, but I still reject sharing my number except for work and maybe a baddie every now and then. Wish I didn't even need to pay for one even for how cheap it is.
You know if Movim really takes off I admit that would be amazing because it's like a hardened facebook. Public photo albums are important to people
Any good mobile apps? I'd love to have a place to share updates with my friends like social media does. Integrated with XMPP makes it all the better I'd say.
They're just in browser at the moment, but it's very flexible since you can login to instances with XMPP accounts elsewhere. It's under pretty active development although TBQH I find the Povoq guy difficult ๐
I try to get people to add me on musicbrainz and link up music services to it. It's cool bc you can funnel music player program listens, funkwhale (which is activitypub!), scloud, spotify, yt music, apple, all of their สแดแด ษขแดสสแดษขแด right, but it still works with open source shit. It can absorb lastfm which a lot of ppl have hanging around. None of this solves the reality of being at an information disadvantage vs someone who plays weird games with IG likes. But are people like that worth the stress anyways??
But if you get each other's music recs and can dm realistically what else do you need? Am i boring? Lol
Right? Although I'd love to communicate with everybody in my community and be reachable on the ready, do I really want to give up my values for people who don't care to understand them? If you wanna contact me outside of face to face, then use what I use. And it goes for the other way around too. Not worth the stress.