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[โ€“] [email protected] 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

[โ€“] [email protected] 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