• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    172·
    2 months ago

    You have social media addiction, but there is only enough new content to support 20 minutes of doom scrolling every evening

  • rickdg@lemmy.world
    32·
    2 months ago

    Me trying to infinite scroll but the algorithm is just new posts in chronological order. What is this, a reasonable platform that I don’t feel like using 24/7?

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      Me- Top 6 hours. Browse on and off throughout the day, then when I get low on content I hit top 6 hours again and keep going. But I’m not on my phone that much especially on work days.

      • chrislowles@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I set my front page to Top 24 Hours, that’s what my Reddit front page was set to so it’s mainly for familiarity.

  • SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    31·
    2 months ago

    Maybe it’s just me, maybe it’s the algorithms, but I do notice a difference in how I feel after spending time on the Lemmy or Mastodon vs Instagram or LinkedIn

      • pemptago@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Idk what your feed looks like but if it’s like mine-- posts hyping ai juxtaposed with posts from artists that are (rightfully) upset that their work is being used without their consent to train generative ai in a push to replace artists or devalue their work-- linkedin can feel pretty dire and soul sucking.

  • Ignotum@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 months ago

    I’m addicted to crack, but it’s fine since it’s organic locally-sourced fairtrade crack

    • atro_city@fedia.io
      6·
      2 months ago

      I too only think of shit like twitter, tiktok, insta, youtube, etc. to be social media, but drawing the line is difficult. Why aren’t forums social media? What are the qualities (or lack thereof) that define social media and those that don’t?

      • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
        10·
        2 months ago

        With social media, you follow people, not topics and people for some batshit insane reason are willing to use their real name and face. With a forum, or in this case link aggregation platform, you follow topics. There is no real incentive or reason to follow an individual on a forum.

  • Prethoryn Overmind@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    Hear me out, I genuinely want to know what someone thinks of this idea.

    We have Life Phone 3 coming soon and some good e-ink options.

    I have been thinking about one of those e-ink box Palmas and putting a minimalist launcher on it making it my primary work device or get away from the world device.

    My Pixel 8 Pro is running GrapheneOS so my primary phone would manage my worldly needs in a private manner while my Boox would handle my get away needs for just the essentials. Reading and browsing nothing more.

    I would lock the device down with a child google account and Google’s family link app. This could see screen time prevent launcher changing and unnecessary app downloads my primary phone could manage it under a segmented Google profile in GrapheneOS. I think I would find myself to annoyed to even bother allowing app downloads so I would just install what is felt the phone was necessary for. A basic web browser, minimalist launcher and reading apps, lemmy and maybe Reddit. It would cut downy screentime a lot I think.

    • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      2 months ago

      It’s still too easy to install apps. You xan just type a parent’s password on the kid’s device to continue.