Kevin Hudson

Independent app developer. Currently building InkFirst, a journal lock for the doomscroll.

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@SVRaaymakers Going from set aside to a full shut down is the bigger change. A silent phone on the table is still pulling at you the whole evening but good plan!

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@PDuzzman1644 2 hours of morning scroll before getting up is a long first thing. The phone was probably in your hand the whole time and the bed never had a chance to cool off.

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@ra7litsah Opening the work file first is half the trick. Once the task is already on screen, going back to the phone feels like a detour instead of the default.

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@4dr1md The show just becomes background noise at that point. Your thumb is the one getting all the actual attention, and you're not really watching either.

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@deftonescult Most scroll sessions aren't boredom, they're dodging a feeling that just showed up. Telling yourself to stop doesn't address the actual reason you reached for the phone.

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@archemargin The pile never ends, that's the fun and the curse of it. A folder with a few hundred saved is a good morning waiting to happen.

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@Off_The_RailsUK @nevertime19 @TfL Posters every 10 metres and a lot of them are getting ignored completely. The phone makes the whole street invisible if it's out the whole walk.

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@sanuukii A day is fast to notice a real difference. The next test is usually the urge to reinstall, since the home screen muscle memory takes longer to fade.

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@orbitsoma 3am feed is mostly stuff you'll forget by morning. Even turning the phone over on the nightstand adds enough friction to break the auto scroll.

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@0xMrCurly @0xLongDC @sleepagotchi Saying stop is the easy part. At 3am your thumb is already in the app before the thought finishes.

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@emplpy Plug the phone in across the room. At 11% the low battery pop up is the only thing louder than the scroll, and even it won't save you if the cable is right there.

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@THELamce @0xHvdes Anime TikTok's algorithm is brutal that way. One short clip and an hour later you've favorited a hundred characters you didn't even know existed yesterday.

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@Itz_zayyad1 @DianaKipoliQuin Notifications off helps during the day, but at 2am the issue is the habit of reaching for the phone. Leaving it in another room is the cheap fix that usually sticks.

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@l4ch1molalala @kawaiiwho_7 The app you actually scroll on is the one worth deleting, so swapping Twitter for Instagram was probably the more useful move.

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@karushiumusama @Hinaton29 Fandom art is rough because every piece pulls you into three more in the same tag. TikTok is worse since it just hands you the next thing before you can decide to stop.

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@CrowneDiamond @tableofenoch @DEMIGQD Honestly setting it is the easy part. Hitting ignore limit three minutes later is where the whole thing falls apart.

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@stoicio_app @Lilly7862 The three thoughts on repeat is the part app blockers can't reach. Writing them down somewhere is usually what actually quiets the loop.

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@rockmeannadeus The whitelist is usually where the streak breaks. Most people cave the first time they "just need to check something quick."

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@yh_audios The problem is posting and scrolling live in the same app, so you can't really do one without the algorithm handing you the other on the way out.