There needs to be significant effort to make social media clients as least addicting as possible and it needs to happen fast.
Stress from social media is probably a big health issue for people - especially younger people. Anything we can do to help curb that is going to be very valuable in terms of physical and mental health.
Nostr is a nice playground to test something more aggressive in curbing addictive UX and I hope someone takes the first step to try it out. Id be your first user 😉
This could just be a bunch of options in existing clients.
How about an unfinished read-only client? 😅
Black and white, nothing flashy. Hard to get addicted to that. 
That would probably be a nice option to have at night. “Read only mode” that turns on at certain hours.
I saw somewhere about a light phone…
https://www.thelightphone.com/blog/introducing-the-light-phone-iii
Too true
tried changing phone settings to black and white, this works a bit (until I got fed up and switched back to sparkly, addictive colors).
Is it addictive now? I visit occasionally for breaks and in support, but haven't found it addictive.
I do think a positive reinforcement approach is better. For example using negative reinforcement, like threatening to delete free relay storage to force payments on private relays, could be risky.
Instead, we can encourage ways for free relays to bring in more users and we can all brainstorm ways to monetize by providing value that people are willing to pay for.
I think being able to switch between private and public (gossip) relays is also valuable. And I think if you can't delete, then being able to move that data to a private relay and try to delete off gossip natured relay could be an option too.
I do think simple and friendly user design is the the bomb and the key to the treasure chest
Twitter yes
Nostr no
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