I stopped using reddit when Apollo went down, and 2-3 hours of scrolling and active posting in some niche subs turned into ~30 mins of Lemmy per day, which I find much more healthy.

I didn’t start doing yoga, painting, or a side business, just feel much better having cut back the last big pillar of my social media addiction.

So thanks Steve!

(If it’s not too much to ask, please take a look at how you could improve instagram, you could save another 15 minute of my day)

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    1 year ago

    That’s like saying playing video games for 10 hours every day isn’t a sign of addiction because it devalues the gaming hobby.

    Social Media addiction is a real thing. Every single popular social media app is designed to draw people in and keep them using it. The “drag down to refresh” is literally copied from slot machines.

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      1 year ago

      This. Social media can be used in a healthy way, but that doesn’t mean social media addiction doesn’t exist.