I did it by accident actually. I stopped social media because I just never used it that much, not even lurking. I use a lot of Adblock, even YouTube still gets blocked on my phone if I open it via the browser, so I use this to open YouTube. I got a new number this January. In February I deleted my cookies. Google sends a code to your phone via message, if not, you a code a month later via mail. Haven’t used YouTube since. And then came the Reddit stuff and no more Apollo and there goes that.

I use it now for Duolingo and music and Melvor Idle

[–] raf@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Similar here lately :)

I don't use socials apart from occasionally Mastodon (which is interestingly not addictive, thanks to the chronological/honest UX!) and Insta, which I open in the browser to check what people write me and log out from afterwards.

I also use YT in the browser, because the app is such an offensive blend of addiction patterns. Sadly Chrome for Android (willingly?) removed Chromecast support from web-based YT (...it was there years ago, iirc?)

Also, I disabled notifications for non-urgent apps, and took a redundant online/offline approach to essential things (e.g. calendar, notes and so on) to be sure I don't need to pull out my phone all the time. Nonetheless, I find myself using it a lot more than it used to be, which is quite sad

[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Oh those notifications! I totally forgot about them!

I use an Apple Watch for some years now (got a cheap series 0, and later a cheap series 4 which I still use)

This helped me a lot! I get the notifications, it vibrates, I take a quick look and, most of the time, just delete it because it is unnecessary. It got so annoying that I uninstalled apps and removed notifications for others lol