Canadian here: I look forward to using my apps again in April.
HongKonger here, no grass to be found in concrete jungle.
Surely you can find some green plastic herbs somewhere.
Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
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#262Nice idea. I feel like we don't see as many fun/whimsical apps these days as we did 10-15 years ago.
Here's a whimsical site I made a few years ago. You can look up grasses and other lifeforms and see how they are related. https://sol.vandenoever.info/?lang=en,nl&uids=119845,135774,...
I've been wanting something like this for a very long time. I always imagined seeing the "scientific classification" metro-style path where at some point it splits showing how far apart are two species.
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#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
From what I’ve seen, Instagram is better at motivating young people to go outside and do things than video games were in the 90s or even today. With Instagram they see their friends doing things and it’s a reminder that going outside and/or spending time with friends is fun. There’s a lot of pearl clutching about people getting jealous about other people’s vacation pictures, but on the whole the active Instagram user…
Is this still true though? My gut feeling is that most Instagram users are now passive, meaning they doomscroll and never post while lying in bed in their parents basement while their 20s sail by. Not so much a stereotype as a reflection of the real people I know. I think we used to see much more content from friends, I think the feed is now mostly content creators/ads/tiktokified, no?
Too true sadly.
Re: Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
#264I added reddit.com to uBlock Origin's filters list. I can still visit it, but there's now a screen asking me if I'm sure I want to go there. It's stopped me a few times, and it's breaking that muscle memory of "pick up phone & check reddit/etc"
Something simpler that has helped me break off some websites is to just log out. Twitter and Facebook have no feed if you log out. Reddit on the opposite will show you an empty feed if you're logged in but follow no subreddit. YouTube does neither, but I like long videos so it's unlikely I mindlessly open one.
Re: Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about the app?
The reddit app is so bad, it may actually have been designed to end addiction to reddit.
It literally cannot be worse than the website. Reddit has always sucked except for that brief period between the creation of the new UI and the enshittification of the new UI. I never used the old UI before because it was so bland and there were so many better alternative UIs.
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#267doom via phobe better than doom via grass though :(
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#268Re: Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
#269Somewhat ironic to have an app to get people to look away from apps.
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#270Needs a mode where touching snow counts.
Walk 500 steps?