I really don’t want to be on the mainstream internet as it exists today anymore. God it’s such a time sink especially for someone with unmedicated ADHD, i lose entire days to webnovels/reddit(ugh)/youtube everytime i open one of them. even this post took me an entire day to write because I kept getting distracted. even hexbear sometimes can be bad for this but there’s not as much content

how to i reduce browser usage? especially on phone, and maybe phone usage - i’m considering deleting my browser entirely but i’m concerned about whether i need to retain it for signing into things. But maybe this wouldn’t be a problem if I delete as many apps as humanly possible and only use my phone for texts and calls

Reddit is also a very tricky one because of just how much information is on it these days (sidenote I actually fucking hate this, destroy reddit and bring back niche forums). I’m wondering if there’s a way to handle this with ublock filters s.t. I can view posts individually but not subreddit feeds or the main page.

a more general question is - how do you throw off the shackles of the Algorithm

  • piggy [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    ADHD here too here’s what I do.

    In general I use Firefox.

    • LeechBlock 10 min daily / 5 min overrides anything else becomes counter productive much like your reddit example.
    • SocialFocus on for all sites, helps break dark patterns
    • Greyscale Browsing, turn on for all sites

    Turn these on in Private Mode too.

    On mobile specifically:

    • Greyscale filter the phone
    • Do not install any social apps / time wasters
    • Deny notifications by default, turn on what you need
    • Use Firefox by default in private browsing mode, and set it up to wipe your tabs on exit

    The things that helped the most were greyscaling, on the phone specifically not installing apps and using Firefox in private mode w/ tab wipe.

    HexBear is better because manual paging, but sometimes you gotta logout