I did the account nuke a few months ago. Felt great.
The only social media accounts I still have are twitter (locked down account, never post, use it to follow a few local businesses and local public figures), HN, and Reddit.
I'm also getting pretty close to pulling the plug on Reddit, the site feels somehow even more toxic and polarized than it did years ago. Although, that's probably also partially a function of me growing up and maturing.
Depending on what you mean by a few years ago (perhaps five?), you might just need to re-curate your subs. Communities hit big problems once they get too big that are fundamentally hard to manage. Drop your big communities and try to find the replacement that's much smaller
I use to be really active on Twitter but now keep it around mainly to shame bad customer service. I definitely wouldn’t follow me anymore.
I’m really torn on Reddit. It still has lots of good communities, but it’s so easy to pop over to something mean-spirited to get a little “I’m a superior person!” endorphin rush. I don’t need that in my life.
I still have and enjoy a Mastodon account. It feels like Twitter, but more chaotic in a good way, and with people being on the whole much nicer to each other.
I've been wanting to delete Facebook for years but my partner convinced me to keep it - but now I haven't even logged in in a year and nobody noticed, so I feel like I can get away with it now!
Reddit and Twitter I already nuked last year. Trying to think of other things I can go and delete now, as it's quite cathartic.
IMO, the increased toxicity of Reddit is due to user base growth. Much worse content used to be openly allowable on Reddit, but the users who posted that stuff were more content to stay in their hate holes and leave the rest of the site alone.
Unfortunately, even the small subs that are just as good as the Reddit of old still have a time bomb of when the subscriber base grows to the point that the mods can’t stop the user base from spamming irrelevant IRL political discussion in the comments.
The only social media accounts I still have are twitter (locked down account, never post, use it to follow a few local businesses and local public figures), HN, and Reddit.
I'm also getting pretty close to pulling the plug on Reddit, the site feels somehow even more toxic and polarized than it did years ago. Although, that's probably also partially a function of me growing up and maturing.