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being sincere with the title, scrolling is addicting by design. its hard to do this on your own. in addition to using tools (see recs below) i recommend changing your mindset when you scroll on ig to i’m wasting my own time. like this isn’t beneficial to you, it’s just making some horrible person richer. i am so sincerely sorry to people who have to use ig or tiktok for biz.
start thinking about your day in like 1-2 hour chunks — what can i get started in here? (plug for the rec to replace scrolling with hobbies) And try to put your phone the fuck away somewhere! (listen to music on your computer or something). and then when you’re doing hobbies/activities and you need to take a break — find something you can like “fidget” with during those breaks. not necessarily a fidget toy but like *make* yourself some food, flip through a magazine, just like try to be analog. we must save ourselves from technofuedalism 😩
i have screen zen because it’s free, it keeps me off ig. i highly recommend. i’ll cheat sometimes and go to the web page instagram.com but the functionality is sooo bad that i’m not on there for long.
there’s also a device called brick that will lock you out of apps unless you tap your phone to it, super helpful!! but you have to pay for it. screenzen is free :)

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damn you’re so cool seeing that i deeply agree with everything here, this might be just a tiny bit easier than i thought. still a challenge tho. thank you for the wake up alarm, you have a way with calmly expressing distressing advice. would love to hear more about your thoughts on technofuedalism
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@EZRAFINN hahahahah WHAT!!! that’s so funny to hear someone say that :’) my heart is full of love and no one can take that away from me ♥ i am a teacher so i’m literally PRO at explaining things to ppl they don’t wanna hear :’) — i don’t have a ton of thoughts, but i will say they just want us to be lowly serfs. completely reliant on fucking amazon. i’m serious. why is amazon now in pharmacy? and so much of our society are these “technological advancements” that actually just make us more helpless and reliant on these extractive capitalist structures. when we become so reliant on these structures it actually takes our self esteem away. like doing things for yourself is sooooo good for your mental. but when we DON’T we lose that!!!! i literally see it in our children. and that’s what the billionaires want. they want us to be their serfs. idk man (gender neutral) i gotta read some more books on it.
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It’s free (they recommend for a one-time tip) and it can help you break the mindless habit of using your phone as an escape. Because half the time I tap Instagram, it’s out of muscle memory and not for any good reason.
Nov 16, 2024
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on monday after seeing the pi.fyi app reccomendations ask and finding out abt the screenzen app blocker i have been using it so I dont doomscroll when procrastinating on my online classes for college. it has been working so well that in my downtime I either stare at the pi.fyi homescreen or just scroll back and forth on my homescreen and open apps just to immediately get kicked out of them. honestly its made me realize how insta is such a crutch for my boredness and how ive lowkey become reliant on it? like I literally feel like im going thru withdrawal for social media and being on my phone of all things 😭😭😭
Jul 10, 2025
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it’s designed to be additive so don’t blame yourself, it doesn’t help.
deleting instagram helped me. sometimes i go on the browser but it’s a less pleasant experience so less addictive. i redownload when i want to post and then delete again. annoying but worth it.
my phone is getting old so my battery is going bad. this helps because i’m more inclined to only use my phone when i need it to keep it from dying. resist taking a charger every where you go if your phone is the same.
been following this writer/artist/screen time activist (?) and she has some cool thoughts on the matter: https://augustlamm.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-a-smartphone
Jul 25, 2024

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i’m curious as much as i am sad about the decision to make the star count visible. is that what its proper name is? or are we calling it likes? 👀