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About 12 years for me without any Meta accounts. I talk with my mom using Signal, and have a very active group chat with friends on Signal too. A dozen of Matrix channels for nerd stuff, Akkoma and Lemmy for social feeds, the orange site and Lobsters for work, LWN and Phoronix for hobbies.
Enough for one day with these…
Might be depending where you live. I never had issues finding all the parties and having a large network of friends without Meta apps.
I was born before computers were really a thing though, so maybe that has an effect on this. Now I don’t even realize without reading these threads that I miss something. Life is just fine without…