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I've found switching to the web version of social apps to be better anyway. Stops me visiting them as frequently if nothing else. I'm actively deciding to visit now rather than mindlessly opening the apps in order

Feelin kinda smug right now

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It's been surprising how much I stopped thinking about social media entirely since doing this. Not to mention that the mobile web experience is often purposely crippled to try and funnel you back into native.

Add in the need to get my timeboxed 2FA code to login and I'll begin to realize how little there is to gain relative to the trouble of actually logging in.

> timeboxed 2FA code

Would you mind sharing implementation details?

https://hackernoon.com/how-to-implement-google-authenticator...

I haven't read through this in complete detail but it generally looks like the correct algorithm.

They also don't update the features a lot which has some perks.

The calendar on events on facebook mobile website is a simple calendar that shows your events that you are invited to. The desktop and mobile app make it a pain to see just your friend events since they're pushing event discovery too.

This! For this reason, Facebook Marketplace for mobile web is better than the app version, because it doesn't have the useless "ship to me" option that no one wants and no one will ever use (yet Facebook makes the default and resets after every search).

I've done a mild version of this with some success, putting the apps in a separate homescreen, or deleting them from the homescreen altogether so I'm forced to go into the app drawer. Unfortunately my mind still finds itself swiping down the iOS search bar to hunt for them. It really is a compulsive addiction of sorts.

Try doing it only in a private window so you need to login every time. Even better.

I started out dealing with my social media addiction by doing this.

Then I just started logging out most of the time.

In the end I just closed all my accounts but Twitter where I unfollowed everyone and set it up as a dumb mastodon relay for reach.

Feeling extra smug right now.

No option to do that with Snapchat. So if you want to be involved with Snapchat in any way, the app is your only choice.

At which point you are a winner anyway!

Honestly the only time I've seen Snapchat in the past 5 years someone was using it to buy cocaine

You must not be a teenager

That is an accurate assessment doc, getting dangerously close to mid thirties

Snapchat? How unprofessional, everyone knows that's what Signal is for.

I thought it was pretty opsec-poor myself but I wasn't going to get involved haha

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