Probably unpopular opinion, but recently i found infinite scrolling being very addictive. I would like to scroll about 50 posts (might be customizable), then click a button to load more, like in Voyager.

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    10 months ago

    Whilst it’s not what you’re looking for specifically, I found it very helpful to scroll an amount of posts down, then read upwards, as a means of curbing my urge to doom scroll.

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    10 months ago

    Sounds like you need a timer on your Lemmy app.

    In Android: Settings -> Digital Wellbeing -> Dashboard

    There you can set timers for specific apps, which let’s you use those apps for only the amount of time you specify, per day.

    I hope this helps you!

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    10 months ago

    Your phone likely has a way to limit the amount of time you can spend on an app. For me it’s under “Digital Wellbeing”. I’d rather point people towards that than have the dev get sidetracked on implimenting this.

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      10 months ago

      Yep, I gave the same advice. It’s pretty good. But it doesn’t help limit the time during each session, if that’s what you’d want.

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    10 months ago

    Excellent suggestion and a good way to keep social media consumption in check.

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    10 months ago

    This does sound like a good suggestion. Controlling social media and consumption of screen time is no bad thing if you are aware of it’s issues.

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      10 months ago

      On RiF I could continuously scroll, but there was a line that noted “page 2” etc as you scrolled to the next page. That was a simple reminder to check myself lol.

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        10 months ago

        You could also turn off autoloading of the next page in RiF. The app the RiF creator made for Tildes has the same option.

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    10 months ago

    I built a task in Automate to set a timer everytime I open the app, and it reminds after so long.

    I could set it to automatically close the app, too, but that felt a bit forced and more of an annoyance when I was in the middle of an article.

    I still think your suggestion is more user friendly, though, just thought I’d share my personal solution

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      10 months ago

      I’ve set up Android to close and block the app after 30 minutes of use. It’s forceful but if it weren’t, I’d completely ignore it