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Author: pyratebeard <root@pyratebeard.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 21:57:42 +0100
un-app-ealing
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Recently I decided to try and reduce the amount of "doom scrolling" I was doing on my phone.
-While my desktop PC is still my main computing device it is inevitable that the computer I carry around in my pocket will get a high degree of use.
+While my desktop PC is still my main computing device it is inevitable that the computer I carry around in my pocket will get a high degree of use. The problem being that "use" was not particularly productive a lot of the time.
-Like most phone users it is all about apps. The main culprits in my case were [Boost](TK){target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"} for Reddit, [Twidere](TK){target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"} for Twitter, and [Fedilab](TK){target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"} for Mastodon.
+Like most phone users it is all about apps. The main culprits in my case were [Boost](https://boostforreddit.com/){target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"} for Reddit, [Twidere](https://twidere.com/){target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"} for Twitter, and [Fedilab](https://fedilab.app/){target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"} for Mastodon.
-My Twitter usage had dropped dramatically since I started to focus more on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Getting rid of Twidere was made even easier with [Mastodon Twitter Crossposter](TK){target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"}, which lets me toot and automatically tweet.
+My Twitter usage had dropped dramatically since I started to focus more on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Getting rid of Twidere became even easier with [Mastodon Twitter Crossposter](https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/){target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"}, which tweets my toots for me.
-Fedilab is staying for now.
+Reddit had been my main weakness. My Reddit usage is mostly lurking in my favourite subs and checking the popular posts. The time I spent scrolling down and down kept increasing, I felt like there would be a good meme or post just a bit further down so I kept going.
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+My most browsed subs were already in my RSS feed (more on this later) so I decided to remove Boost and rely on the website if I needed to spend time on Reddit. On my desktop this isn't too bad (long live old.reddit.com!). On mobile the old view is unusable so the new style it is (although I wish they would remove the "This page looks better in the app" banner).
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+Within days I found my time on Reddit dropped to practically nothing except for what I have in my RSS feed, which I only check on my desktop.
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+Fedilab is staying for now, I find I am less likely to doom scroll on Mastodon. I check my timeline while only occasionally looking at the federated timeline. This may change as I spend more time on it, for now though I am happy with the amount of usage.
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+## really simple syndication
+RSS is great. In years gone the RSS icon seemed to be everywhere, these days it doesn't appear to be as popular. Thankfully it is still around.
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+About two years ago I discovered that you can add ".rss" to any subreddit URL to get an RSS feed. For example, https://reddit.com/r/unixart.rss.
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+The same is true for Mastodon profiles, get my toots in your feed with https://harbour.cafe/@pyratebeard.rss.
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+Twitter is not as RSS friendly. As far as I know there is no Twitter native way to get feeds from profiles. Instead I use nitter.net and add "/rss" to the URL, for example https://nitter.net/pyratebeard/rss.
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+This has been part of my RSS setup for a long time, and it is enough for me to keep updated without falling into the endless darkness of the scroll.
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+By removing these social apps from my phone and using RSS or the websites I have found myself looking at my phone less and less. When I do spend time on my phone it is for something more productive, like writing this blog post. I am sure there is some irony there.
