I guess minimalism is relative. I wouldn’t describe this as minimalism. Minimalism is not using a tool “that combines together X, BlueSky as well as Farcaster and Lens”. To me that is a way to cope with the opposite of minimalism.
You actually can just leave Twitter and read a book instead.
The article is about using your phone in airplane mode for 100 days...
The article is broken into three primary sections:
- Social media minimalism
- Cell data minimalism
- Web minimalism
What you say is true about the 2nd section, but the comment you are replying to is referencing the 1st section which states, in part:
"I did not leave X the platform, but I did leave X the interface. Instead, I have been doing most of my tweeting through Firefly:
Firefly is a multi-client that combines together X, BlueSky as well as Farcaster and Lens (both partially-Ethereum-based decentralized social media platforms)."
wifi was still enabled, so internet access remained, and also used a number of wifi hot spots when not at home
having a phone with "flip to shhh" (put it face down, notifications are silenced) is really nice