Researchers found college students who tried to cut their social media use to 30 minutes per day scored significantly lower for anxiety, depression, loneliness and fear of missing out at the end of the two-week experiment and when compared to the control group.
Ever since the blackout, I’ve had more time, more energy, and I could focus better on the tasks at hand. Kbin/Lemmy being smaller makes the feed less depressing and more thoughtful, so it doesn’t affect me the same way.
Reddit did us all a solid 😂
Yeah thanks and fuck you spez.
I think the entirety of reddit has established patterns that are hard/impossible to break. Which caused me to develop a certain feeling of disgust when viewing at any sort of behavioral reddit meta.
It was getting difficult to post, difficult to comment, and difficult to find content that stimullates the mind intellectually. And it yet remains to be seen if federated link&news aggregators will share that same fate, or divert and do it differently.