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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial

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“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial

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A loss could cost social media companies billions and force changes on platforms.
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    It really is! I was off for about three months, and I decided to go back to it just to be up-to-date with some friends and creators, right? Well, I was doom-scrolling for hours in about just a week of usage. Whenever that happens, I uninstall the app causing it, so I just deleted it again. The craziest part? After a couple of hours, I could feel the craving to open the app. Crazy shit.

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      It really is!

      No it’s not. That’s absolute pseudo-science. Not even close to reality.

      Try actual drugs sometime. Very very different.

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      I use instaDM. I am not able to see what other people post unless I go to their profile, but default won’t show it anyway most of the time as it will mainly give short content videos so I just removed the feed altogether

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        Can I get a link? My search hit several disparate projects.

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          There’s a Discord and a Telegram

          • https://discord.gg/c74S66su5H
          • https://t.me/instasmashrepo
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        Bleeper is also a good option. That said, do you have any solution for shorts on YouTube?

        I use Revanced, but my wife has an iphone and she struggles.

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          Well I have android too so I block all shorts with revanced. Maybe she can try YTLite ? https://github.com/dayanch96/YTLite I see on the screenshots there are some yt short settings

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