I guess minimalism is relative. I wouldn’t describe this as minimalism. Minimalism is not using a tool “that combines together X, BlueSky as well as Farcaster and Lens”. To me that is a way to cope with the opposite of minimalism.

You actually can just leave Twitter and read a book instead.

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my-huge-pony 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I agree with you, but this is probably not true for Vitalik, who is basically an influencer. We should all close our computers and spend our time in nature and reading books, but this does limit our outreach possibilities significantly.

	▲	jrm4 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"Vitalik as basically an influencer" is kind of a wild take, like maybe saying Linus Torvalds is an influencer. Love or hate it, he invented the 2nd -- maybe even the 1st -- most impactful form of cryptocurrency.

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7bit 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can leave Twitter and not read a book.

Twister is a cancer that doesn't need replacement.

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pooploop64 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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idiotsecant 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The article is about using your phone in airplane mode for 100 days...

	▲	c22 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The article is broken into three primary sections: - Social media minimalism - Cell data minimalism - Web minimalism What you say is true about the 2nd section, but the comment you are replying to is referencing the 1st section which states, in part: "I did not leave X the platform, but I did leave X the interface. Instead, I have been doing most of my tweeting through Firefly: Firefly is a multi-client that combines together X, BlueSky as well as Farcaster and Lens (both partially-Ethereum-based decentralized social media platforms)."
	▲	bunderbunder 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		That experiment also felt more cute than actually minimalist to me. When I decided to take a break from being terminally online, I didn’t turn off the phone feature but leave Wi-Fi on so I could still check my socials on the office Wi-Fi; that wouldn’t have actually done much. I forced my phone off the bulk of the internet by turning off Wi-Fi and disabling cellular data for everything but a few core apps like Messages and Maps.
	▲	verdverm 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		wifi was still enabled, so internet access remained, and also used a number of wifi hot spots when not at home having a phone with "flip to shhh" (put it face down, notifications are silenced) is really nice