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“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial (arstechnica.com)
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[–] TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It really is! I was off for about three months, and I decided to go back to it just to be up-to-date with some friends and creators, right? Well, I was doom-scrolling for hours in about just a week of usage. Whenever that happens, I uninstall the app causing it, so I just deleted it again. The craziest part? After a couple of hours, I could feel the craving to open the app. Crazy shit.

[–] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I use instaDM. I am not able to see what other people post unless I go to their profile, but default won't show it anyway most of the time as it will mainly give short content videos so I just removed the feed altogether

EDIT: also try revanved manager with the disable scrolling patch

[–] TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sadly, I do not trust third party apps with my main account. There is so much to loose.

[–] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You can use Revanced Manager to patch it locally

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can I get a link? My search hit several disparate projects.

[–] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)
[–] crudenipster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bleeper is also a good option. That said, do you have any solution for shorts on YouTube?

I use Revanced, but my wife has an iphone and she struggles.

[–] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Well I have android too so I block all shorts with revanced. Maybe she can try YTLite ? https://github.com/dayanch96/YTLite I see on the screenshots there are some yt short settings

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

It really is!

No it's not. That's absolute pseudo-science. Not even close to reality.

Try actual drugs sometime. Very very different.

[–] TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

"Look guys, I said the opposite of the content in the replies." 🤓☝️