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“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial (arstechnica.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 38 points 8 months ago (9 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 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

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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