Delete Xitter! You won't regret it.

There's so much value to be found in here

Zapped some bananas for you.

Remove the alcohol from your house. Delete the apps.

Limit non Nostr to increasingly small windows of time.✌️

Welcome to the real world.❤️‍🔥

It's nicer than it seems.

When my son was born I deleted all the social apps from my phone. I still have the accounts, but accessing them through a browser takes more effort, and I hardly bother.

I also cancelled my oxycodone prescription, and that was/is hard too.

Life is not supposed to be easy.

Find some people on Nostr that post about positive things, things you are interested in, people that motivate you, and follow them.

Replace doom scrolling with bloom scrolling. 💜

Turn off push notifications, pleb.

nostr:nevent1qqs2cg04hvqqavp5n9p3y38mg6xntvsptel3k5mfq4gn7gycysmp6jqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhsygp0thsqq0dcfmx4gjgjsdgvvmrlkclf6q4j2rvy47z0gclzlx7w7ypsgqqqqqqsj7txca

I’ve given up the naughtiest of things that folks say are highly addictive...

You recognise the problem and that’s a great start, you’ve completed step one. Good luck!

Uninstall the centralised app and use the web browser which adds friction and removes “notifications”

.. and enjoy Nostr 🤝

I come here after work normally to just see what's going on in nostr world. 20 mins or so.

Also I find my follows here vary so much more than they did on the Twatter, I see beautiful photographs, doom scrolling is real, nostr is joy scrolling.

Zap that

Reply this.

Post shitty meme here.

Nostr is what YOU make of it.

You can just utilize the Twatter like clients, but everyone should explore things like highlighter, and blossom and different ways nostr is being used.

I can identify myself with what you just described. Today I got completely tired of it and I’ve uninstalled Twitter. Let’s see. I hope is a not coming back.

that was a good one to start things up, looking forward to the other 20 posts

well, one thing that happens is that nostr has less people so it is less likely to have some interesting event happening in it at any given time, right?

👏 well said. You would probably very much like a 10-day Vipassana meditation course - no phones, no internet, no talking for 10 days straight. Good luck with the 21 day challenge 💪

Come to cornychat.com too

I’m still learning this thing out and how to find people myself. But I love owning my content.

Sean, I am learning the exact same thing today. I will do the same.

Let's track and hold each other accountable. 💪💪

Deleted my Twitter account cold turkey last week… they give you 30 days to reactivate, they must know about the 21 days habit forming! Holding strong #NostrOnly

What about toxic men Sean, how do you feel about them?

Just quit don’t be a biatch. Junkies ween and bargain. Adults just stop doing something they know is bad for them.

Manage your notifications. Turn them off from distracting and unproductive apps like youtube, rumble, etc. Only allow notifications from apps or channels in apps that you actually positively want to be notified about. This is a powerful tool to reduce your phone's and computer's power over you.

Take the brain drain off of your home screen. Manage your home screen so you only see notification dots on apps that you need to know about immediately.

Also, change your default notification tone to something that's barely audible. Change the notification tone to something custom for each app so you can decide if you want to look at it based on which app its from and without picking up your phone. It doesent matter which app gets which noise, you will eventually learn what each sound means.

Well, Karen IS awesome.

Many of us did this back in March 2023 with #MarchOffTwitter and the results were very apparent. Once you give Nostr a try and see it's true power, you'll never go back to the attention whoring applications of the past. Nostr's building and positivity with #bloomscrolling will win you over. Good luck on your journey! 💜🫂🤙🏻

nostr on the home page of the phone and delete everything else. h/t nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

Good luck to you on your desire to break the cycle 🤙

You make a strong case for turning off all notifications.

Like the news we shouldn’t pay attention to the “alerts”.

💯 With nostr, you come when *your* ready. You don't have some algo trying to predict what you want, only to sell your metrics to some advertiser.

And what's worse? That the algos force feed fear to you. MSM has been on to this forever - they sell the fear.

It's the same reason why a happy news network doesn't exist.

True, but for me, the reason is because it's like 98% Bitcoin stuff. I love the concept but I can't get Bitcoin (even though I want to) so it's hard to find people to interact with and relate to here.

That said, Nostr is a really great idea so that's why I'm here.

I'm going to write here a vision I had two weeks ago in ayahuasca ceremony:

"I had become almost a monkey. Brute, ignorant and dumb. I was in my home but always with my phone in my hands. I was dark skinned goblinesque and my wife was the same.

my children were around, normal as they are, not changed at all.

But we were hideous.

We were all day long playing with our phones in these social media networks. filling ourselves with anxiety and information. Fullfiling tasks and clicking nonstop. Feeling the rewards and red hearts of dopamine pursuit. Like gambling and gambling in a casino like game

Our children were playing around as usual and sometimes they had needs, but we got mad at them. And explained to them in a very rough manner that we were doing that for them. And that someday sometime we were going to be famous and succesful because we would win the game.

And we yelled at them to leave us alone and don't bother.

And we became more ignorant and dumb.

In a burst of fury I grabbed my little son by the shoulders to ask him to stop it, to calm down.

And when I saw him. He wasn't there. He was like a dead thing.

He was just a bunch of code. Just a bunch of Zuckenbergian simbols and icons.

He was covered in that and not alive. I looked around and saw all my house and all reality was covered in those symbols as neo sees the green code of the matrix but it was filled with the social media algorythms and little pictures and icons.

And my son was dead and inert behind that layer of perception.

And I woke up

Be very careful because the game can take posession of our perception. And then we measure infinite eternal and miraculous life through the values and measures of nonhuman things.

And we lose our minds and we get more and more dumb and hypnotized. Thinking one day in the future we will meet fortune. Not knowing fortune is all around and inside us.

And the way we see creates reality because all there is is consciousness."

First step, turn off notifications on the apps

🧡💜

It's madness to have audible notifications on.

I even have visual notifications off.

My notifications are all listed, and I only see them if I go to the notifications section.

It still traps me though, but it could be much worse

Dude, agreed. It's why I'm here. I was being programmed on the daily. Fuck that. I'm here to see if this is real or the same old bullshit. I'm here because of Odell and HODL... two of the best signals I found on twitter.

So here for this vibe. It’s much harder than you think to give it up

Tried and failed a number of times to ignore the social profiles I’ve built elsewhere

Good luck! & let’s do it!

Twitter toxicity on ultra high

I feel you , I’m in same situation here : feeling I’m under drug on messy one man app !

My Twitter usage has gone down a lot since finally taking the time to get comfortable with Nostr (via Primal). But like you said, I still check it when I need a hit.

I’m still learning how to properly curate my Nostr feed.. but I think I’m close to being able to kill Twitter altogether.

Followed 👍

The problem is nostr doesnt have enough posts like this

https://x.com/sheilfer/status/1797402604739408087

Sounds like Facebook.

Delete that shit.

The problem with Nostr is that it’s generally boring. Very little going on, or at least that’s the way it seems.

Yeah I hope Nostr never consumes my time in the way centralized app used to. So much wasted time.

Much more value per time unit in my Nostr usage

Sean, I love this! We are on the same path.

Deleted X yesterday, even though I was using it avidly.

The algorithm programs my mind in a way that doesn't align with my goals & wordlview.

Nostr does.

If you want tips on how to make it easier to quit an addiction, please let me know🙏🏼

Goodluck on your journey⚡️

Great post. I’ve been sick recently but whether it’s that or the algorithm doing it’s thing, I’ve become a pickup zombie. I get this feeling like I’m missing some piece of important news if I don’t check twitter. Time to reset. Nostr is part of that reset.

I don't know why, but a few years ago I stopped, sat down at my computer, and manually deleted 95% of all my FB posts.

Now I rarely post, and even on Twitter I go directly to about 10 profiles to see if there's any relevant news.

Somehow an inner voice told me that using the newsfeed was nonsense.

It's a bit like competing against a chimpanzee in a short-term memory contest. It's hopeless.

And for anyone who doesn't believe me, I send them to my website and the aha effect is pretty impressive ;-)

https://beat-the-monkey.com/

Most people are not even aware that they are caught in an endless trap.

I recently deleted all my social apps from my phone. Except #Damus. I still have to use them on my work laptop (because social media is my work)... But I'm feeling good after about 2 weeks off. I have kept messaging apps though. You got this 💯🫶

For this reason, no app has had permission to do so ✌️

turn off notifications

This happens way too often 🤦🏼‍♀️🤪

Very true.

ITS BEEN 3 MONTHS FOR ME AND IT'S LIFE-CHANGING YOU GOT THIS 💪

Here's my wins list:

1. No Instagram for the last 1.5 years.

2. No X for the last 4 months.

3. LinkedIn: 40-50 minutes for networking.

4. YouTube: Mostly for learning.

5. #Nostr: 1-2 hours/day connecting with #plebs.

Thanks to God, doing many mindset shifts regarding content consumption and algorithms.

Good thinking.

In the meantime, deactivating notifications helps a lot.

Followed.

I deleted today yesterday. Same feeling as you- endless negativity, doomerism, etc.

20 days to go I guess…

Agree with the monkey & dopamine argument.

But why only #nostr?

What makes you believe that #nostr is the only true decentralised attempt that's gonna win the network effect?

But Karen videos are funny...

Delete the apps, make yourself have to open the websites, in most cases the websites are so bad you wouldn't want to use them anyway

Read “Atomic Habits” and apply those principles to quitting toxic social media. It worked for me. Good luck.

“If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

-Atomic Habits

Did you ever think about not enabling notifications? 😁