tl;dr how to severely reduce the time you spend on your phone:

• uninstall all apps that enable infinite scrolling

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Doom-scrolling is a UX fail.

how?

How is it not? It promotes zombie-like behavior with nothing of context, the brain retains nothing of value. It’s literally the modern day equivalent of television channel-surfing. They can feed anything they want into your view.

that doesn't make it a failure

But just like you, many are waking up to the fact that it’s a deterrent, counterproductive. Maybe not a fail for the producer making money of your time and your content, but very much so a fail for the consumer.