NoSurf – A community of people against digital addiction
reddit.com
reddit.com
Hosting this community on Reddit feels like having AA meetings in a bar. It’s so easy to click one link and get back in your mindless surfing addiction. Even loading the page came with encouragement to install the Reddit app.
Which is optimized for use on mobile, and still look like iOS 6.
Would like to chain my time-tracker to it so that it only enables some sites after I invested X time for something productive. All which I know sadly only support basic rules (pomodoro, schedule).
Where do you propose they gather? Freenode? Matrix? Some other obscure digital hangout?
I think it’s prudent to encourage people trying to fix their situation no matter how messy the implementation.
This is pure conjecture, but i’d wager that the majority of the posters on there are relatively young kids/adults who are wising up to the fact that social media is no longer _helping_ them. They may not be able to tell you how and why these “tools” are hurting them, but that’s ostensibly what they’re trying to figure out. If we can, as a society, figure out how/if they’re on to something, maybe we can help correct the course for them.
If the next brilliant engineer skips on the shiny Data Science job or the FAANG post where he/she will build yet another “cool” thing, and decided instead to fix an existing thing, maybe the world would actually be the place that nobs like Paul Graham think it is.
Funny how life works.
The hanging out is kind of the problem as it feeds the always-on addiction. Some kind of daily or weekly newsletter with a selection of letters to the editor.