Someone once asked...

“For some years, I have been thinking and feeling that the commercial social media is not good for me (depression, lack of a meaning). I decided to leave. I went to the distributed social ecosystems and I feel much better already even though it has been a week. What are your thoughts and feelings on this matter? Thank you! Whishing you to get inspired.”

Someone answered with kindness...

I think you already know the answer, honestly — you said you feel better after a week, and that's not nothing. That's your own body telling you something, before any argument or theory catches up to it. For what it's worth, I don't think commercial social media is "bad" in some abstract moral sense. I think it's built to optimize for time spent, not for how you feel afterward, and those two things just aren't the same goal. You can leave a platform having "engaged" a lot and still feel completely empty, because the app did exactly what it was designed to do — it just wasn't designed for you. Distributed, smaller spaces feel different because there's no algorithm deciding what you see, no infinite scroll quietly making the decision to stop for you. You have to actually choose to be there, again and again. That friction is annoying at first, and then eventually it becomes the whole point. One week isn't long, and there might be days ahead where it feels harder, or lonelier, before it feels fully better — that's normal too, not a sign you made the wrong call. But if this is the first time in years you've felt something like meaning again, I'd trust that over any specific platform or theory about why. Glad you're here. Really.