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The concept of having to interact with the natural world before being allowed to interact with the social media world is interesting and this is perhaps the most interesting implementation of that.
Personally I find it's rewarding to flex the "self restraint muscle" by stopping myself from doomscrolling rather than relying on technology to do that for me.
What if you live in the Sahara or a dry country ?
Fun idea, but not the right way to end an addiction. Making it more difficult to get the dopamine (really epinephrine) hit will only lead to more frustration and reinforce the relief when you get your reward. In other words, it only makes the reward more pleasurable.
This is sick! Is it using an LLM's photo detection to determine if it is a picture of touching grass? I recently added all of my most distracting apps to the Hidden section on iPhone. It requires a FaceID check to even see the apps, and blocks all notifications from them. It has helped me cut down on the scroll-time significantly.
This is going to be rough up north where I am, too much snow.
Touch snow.
I 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"
Reddit has gotten so bad over the last decade that I've stopped browsing it altogether, except for one or two niche subreddits every now and then.
I 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"
What about the app?