alt Hacker Newsin my hands, safari is a brainrot app. i can easily while away 3 hours on wikipedia. in my opinion, it's not the apps but the device itself, the shiny-glowing-info-dopamine-device.
Perfect point, if i uninstall one app, I just divert my attention to some other app.
I agree that the phone can draw you in because that is by design.
Where we differ is who’s responsible for what happens next. I am solely responsible for where I spend my attention. The tools I use are: adding friction, disabling the hooks and tactics and changing defaults so that less willpower is required, and, ultimately, if I can't make it work how I want, I get rid of it.
If I feel like something is working against me and I can't remedy that, it's gone.