I haven’t used social media in years, but I remember when I quit it how I would sometimes be on my laptop doing something and almost out of habit hit “Ctrl + T” for a new tab and type the first few letters of Reddit or instagram.
Oh I'm relieved to hear that I'm not the only one.
Is there a browser plugin that only lets you visit a site once every N hours? I'd prefer this to electroshock punishment.
My solution involves a Pi-hole. You can set a cron job to enable or disable rules.
Other solution I hear people doing is using OpenDNS.
Regarding apps, just delete them.
Combined with DuckDuckGo's !bang notation—since you no longer have autocomplete for visited sites—you can still get to useful places like wikipedia quickly.
Unfortunate side-effect is that by staying logged out everywhere, with no cookies, means you'll see every single "log in with gmail!", "use the app for a better experience" dark pattern popup, unless your adblocker covers annoyances.