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65yesterday at 8:45 PM1 replyview on HN

I've never had a problem with social media usage - and I'd be surprised if other developers here haven't enacted their own solutions to prevent doomscrolling.

I have user scripts on both my iPhone and my computer that completely disable the Instagram recommended feed. I have disabled YouTube thumbnails and the YouTube sidebar. /r/popular or other popular subreddits get automatically redirected to my Reddit homepage which has a lot less garbage on it. I have completely disabled my Twitter feed. I even have certain domains removed on HackerNews and made an extension to only update a few times a day. And a ton more.

If you're a developer and you want to stop doomscrolling... you have the power.


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leonhardyesterday at 8:50 PM

How can you do that in the apps? Or do you just do it for the websites and not install the apps in the first place?

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