Bro hurl your phone into the sea stat, you've got a lot of grass touching to catch up on. Feeling sucked in sometimes I can relate to, reality being the exception is wild. Theoretical damage on the societal level aside this is a huge red flag that this tech is hurting you and you need to disengage. I'm not going to advocate for specific meditations here or anything, just find something to do that doesn't involve a screen
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2026
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Short form videos on an algorithm are designed to be addictive. You now have an addiction just as these tech bros intended. You can stop at any time. Try to find a hobby that takes up your time and interest instead of watching these videos.
they are also stupid af.
once you detach from the stream, you realize youv'e done nothing, learned nothing, gained no value.
it's candy for your brain. mental sugar that gives you a quick hit but has no nutritional of lasting cognitive value.
I have been reading more the past few months and it's amazing like how good it feels to use my brain to understand something that requires effort and contains complexity.
Like, being self aware? Yes, that happens to me sometimes.
No, what the fuck? Please delete everything on your phone with an infinite feed
Oh... Ok...
Bye Lemmy. 😥
I just tried a Lemmy instance and there's clearly a "Next" button to press after x posts to load new ones. I assume you have that toggled to an infinite feed through some setting, so just reverse that.
If you want proper paging, you can switch to Mbin. No need to abandon the idea and community of Lemmy to get away from infinite feeds. Edit: alternative Lemmy frontends might help as well.
This guy doesn't even finish reading lemmy
Just browse top 12 hours or top day, you'll run out
Op you're in the stage of addiction where you're blacking out. This is when boomers usually are soiling themselves at the slot machine.
Divorce yourself from algorithmic feeds. They're basically used as Soma.
I had something similar when I was using reddit. Constantly addicted to the site.
I didn't know how bad it had actually gotten until when the API changes happened I uninstalled the app I was using.
For like the next 2 or 3 months, I would consistently catch myself sliding the side bar open and tapping where the app used to be. In some cases I would get in a loop and I would have attempted it like 6 or 7 times before realizing what I was doing.
The solution like others have said is disengage. The entire point of those platforms are addiction and entertainment. Shorts are even worse than entertainment posts as you can't use the time waste on an individual level.
I had to fully block reddit at the DNS level to separate as I kept wanting to go back. I'm starting to notice the same effect when I'm on lemmy so as of late so I'm working on that.
Omg thank you. I have AdGuard Pro for life and just did this. I’ll uninstall Lemmy as well. Take care.
I see lemmy as harm reduction, the methadone to instagram's fent. Incremental changes are often more sustainable than grand gestures, just getting off the infinite feed of short form video would be a huge step in the right direction and probably a lot easier to adjust to from where you're at now
I have to agree with this. Cold turkey rarely works for me as well. Finding an alternative to it works wonders. Like my alternative to social media/entertainment is gaming or development. Anything to keep your mind off the engagement.
I've never had that, but I don't watch video on my phone. Or anywhere else, most of the time.
Fortunately, I was busy experiencing foreign cultures abroad when that kind of media consumption took off, so I dodged it and never got hooked. Considering that I may only live once, nothing gives me greater anxiety than imaging a life that I wasted on nothing. While this video is sort of sarcastic, it also sort of isn't.
Whenever I watch shorts I feel myself losing the ability to think.
into your head and actually realizing everything
that's what people usually take drugs for.
The moment self awareness pops back on!
A great moment.
I don't use smarphones for entertainment really.
I really should stop.