I deleted all social media apps from my phone except for Mastodon and Reddit.
Facebook is nothing but ads telling me to lose weight. Instagram went from telling me to become an influencer to literally showing my posts to no one. X boxed me into a brand and won’t let me get out of it.
The last few days I tried to be a real person + talk about business things I’m excited about, and I just watched all the algorithms suppress it.
So just going to see how well my business can do without it.
@ActuallyAutistic It was like Christmas time the last week of the month because of social media. Haven’t had a month that high since October last year. Whether I’m on it or not, I’d still take a hit because I can’t keep up with the brand.
@pathfinder The pressure started to feel like I’m supposed to be an entertainer instead of an entrepreneur. Big accounts on X have said that once they reached 5k followers people stopped seeing them as a real person. I’m only at 3,700 followers and I already feel like that.
If I’m not talking about how I’m suffering from autism and ADHD, people don’t want to read it. When I’m doing better, I get unfollowed and suppressed.
@pathfinder it’s not healthy at all. The pressure to maintain it is just too much, and now I can’t get out of that suffering box. Algorithms are tanking my views and reach when I’m trying to just be a normal healthier minded person.
All the posts with 40k views were long posts about me suffering from autistic burnout and ADHD. At some point burnout ends and ADHD gets treated.
@Tooden@pathfinder That’s what it seems to be. When I had 2,000 followers I got to post about my business and boring things and people enjoyed it. But then I had a couple of posts get up to like 44k views and my followers grew to 3,780. So all these new people expect to see me talk about the suffering they relate to. When they see me posting about my business and boring things they unfollow.
@ActuallyAutistic Profits were nice last month, but my expenses were $1,200 higher, so it needed a good month. But now my business is running on next to nothing with cost. I can afford to take the hit from being off social media now. Good thing about being down to only one store.
@Kencf618033 only way to know is to try. Tomorrow I eat pop tarts instead of nutty buddy bars lol. Meds are stronger with pop tarts for some reason haha
I’m so hyper I’m trying not to rapid fire post on my business social media lol. There’s been some posting and deleting so the networks don’t think I’m spam haha.
@Cassandra I want to play games on my Steam Deck and PC. I really like the games Wylde Flower and Cat Cafe Manager, but I never have the brain power to play them.
I’m thinking I’m going to get the audiobook version of this ADHD cleaning book I’ve been trying to read but can never focus enough to read. I can play FarmVille while listening to it.
Every day this little girl goes to the courtyard and screams. She’s the reason I took something to make me fall asleep while she was screaming outside last night.
She’s playing with other kids that are yelling nonstop until 9pm.