I don’t think you should leave, sad if you do as your music posts on instagram are a great resource and always from the heart.
Anyway about to post some finds on here…today was a good day !
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Definitely leaving but I’m hopeful something similar will come along without the association with Meta etc. Looking forward to seeing your finds 
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I had to delete Instagram from my phone last week. It’s a shame because my social media journey was basically Fotolog → Flickr → Insta. I only followed people whose images I liked, hardly anyone I knew and no-one who posted selfies or pictures of their dinner. No politics, no self-promotion, no bullshit. And it was motivation for my own image-making (an obsession since my first point & shoot camera).
But lately I kept finding myself lying in bed at 6am, phone hand going numb, just scrolling through miles of memes / ‘content’, all absolute brain rot.
Maybe I’ll go back but it will have to be with discipline.
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Hahahaha
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Deleted all Meta apps for my phone. If I need to use them I’ll login on a desktop. Found a few folk on Bluesky but still early days.
As others have mentioned, there are a few Insta accounts I’ll miss, @jolyon being one, but there’s enough music on here to keep me going for 2 lifetimes, so not exactly feeling like I’m losing out on anything.
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Jolyon’s quit it too… we need that blue sky insta app.
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Putting it here too, if useful, a thread of alternative social options:
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Just trying out posting here the YouTube alternative they recommend - Odysee - to see what happens:
Edit: looks alright, not as nice a link in TP as YT but contains the Bandcamp link and works well enough. Doesn’t have the depth of music YT has tho.
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Lest we forget social media does have some plus points
I remember from years ago this but thought a bit different ?( more people in room)
Big Suze is also an excellent orator on Big Tech.
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“Find your niche corner”
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That’s it. I’m off FB and Messenger. Both accounts permanently deleted.
Feels good.
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Nice. I deleted Insta off my phone yesterday, but not had the balls to delete the account yet. Still pop into FB occasionally to see what the village nutters are cross about, but should do that too.
Edit: Deleted FB and Insta, thanks for the prod!
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The tidiest of the Peep Show GFs 
I’ve just moved house and have found FB marketplace really useful for getting rid of stuff.
But apart from that and keeping up with a few old friends on messenger, I’d happily never use the main site again
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Deleted FB App but cant leave due to the Viz Fan pages
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Always great, spot on here about social and other media, funny too - shame about the sensationalist headline quote pulled out to advertise it when it isn’t about that topic really, especially given his wariness of such practice in the interview itself:
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