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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 29 Feb \ on: Cleaning up my online life - tips on reducing doom-scrolling, watching shorts? meta
I have some more ideas and details in this post: My favorite tip for avoiding online distractions and mindless scrolling but here's some highlights:
- Use the hosts file to prevent access To put a hard stop on ALL access to sites you want to stop accessing, block them via the hosts file. That means that on your main device, you can't access it at all (unless you edit the hosts file)
- Get a slow device for when you must have access to addictive sites - Say there's a few of these doom-scrolling sites that you still need access to. You need another (crappy! cheap! slow!) hardware device that is not restricted. But it needs to be a very limited experience. Maybe take the battery out, it need to be plugged in. Maybe you have a very short cable, have to stand somewhere right next to the outlet. You get the idea. You can still access Facebook, etc, when you need to. But it's harder to get stuck in the loop.
- Limit Youtube - You can still watch youtube videos, but in a targeted, non-addictive way, by limiting it to something like https://yewtu.be/. So block youtube entirely via the hosts file, but don't block https://yewtu.be/. There's no tracking. It's rate-limited at times, but there's ways to get around it.