How to debloat your life

What should I do?

When you managed to find this site, or any indie website for that matter, you have unlocked a new way to live your life. What happens now is that you can focus on what actually matters to you and not what big tech feeds you. I personally only use YouTube as subscription feed and that's all my big tech web stack. No Instagram, no Tumblr.

How and why?

Well... I was lucky and never got into those to begin with. But you can do the same with a few simple steps as well.

1. Count your app/site usage time; This comes built in with most smartphones nowadays, just open your settings and check something on the lines of "app usage statistics". And for people like me who just uses their phone for texting and calling (aka. what a phone actually made for) I got you covered too. There is an open source extension called "Time Tracker" available for both Firefox and Chromium based browsers!

2. After seeing the horrifying results, you may want to limit yourself. To do that, some people suggest app limiters etc. however, Those aren't really a good solution since you have the passphrase to unlock them. To actually get rid of them, you must... Delete them. No seriously. Delete every social media app on your phone. Since you are not in front of a computer all day (hopefully) you can start by cutting from there. Only have your core apps + messaging apps (i.e. WhatsApp) + a singular web browser. People love convenience, that's one of the reasons, all these companies make mobile apps even though they do have websites. Guess what, it works! Seeing that app on your front page makes you wanna check it for a sec or two, and then boom, you are hooked. So I'm not asking you to stop using all these apps, I'm simply asking you to use them from your web browser. Since it's less convenient, you would less likely to use them.

3. Get a worse phone I'm not asking you to switch to a dumb phone however something with significantly small screen would be great there are a lot of phones loaded with "Android Go" operating system, which is simply put the normal Android optimized for less powerful phones. My pics for this will be the Cat S22 Flip or any of the credit card sized phones like the Palm Phone.

And for why; Social media is useless, people constantly trying to grab each other's attention or sell you something and corporations constantly try to ID you. It is also quite unhealthy. There is a direct correlation with social media usage and depression. Boredom is good for creativity. So please put that phone down and focus on your hobbies for a while. I promise you the results will be great!

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