the paradox is sitting by a screen to look for- and pull together some help with screen-addiction.
open diary
(piefed.social)
It is kind of ironic that I feel that the most accepted place to talk about this is, again, behind a screen.
Thanks for making this community, I'm on a digital minimalism journey, and I feel like not many people I know IRL really understand.
I've made a lot of progress over the last 2 or 3 years, but here I am browsing aimlessly... I will say that Piefed/Lemmy has been a lot better for me than Reddit, which was my previous addiction that I finally freed myself from (partially) a couple weeks back. I say partially because even though I no longer have an account, I still find myself sometimes going back to aimlessly browse r/all when there haven't been any interesting new posts here, like window shopping for things I can't buy.
I struggle the most with online communities, because I don't have many IRL friends (though this is changing!), and I yearn for social interaction. I also really struggle with being incorrect. Everyone makes mistakes, sometimes I'll say something wrong or stupid, and in real life, I can kind of laugh it off, because people forget, it's not like that one random comment I said was the only thing my friend remembers about the whole day... I'll still feel bad about it, but then after a time, even I forget. Online, though, those posts stick around and constantly remind me of their presence. Hiding post scores here has been a huge improvement for me, because even a single -1 karma on Reddit would usually ruin my day (which is stupid, I know it shouldn't). I can still know that I was wrong, but not seeing the anonymous dissatisfaction is better.