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A lot of people are objecting to the "loser" unlock key. A lot of ideas about what to do instead. I think the biggest problem with social media is the loss of attention span.

So I think it should force you to stare into the camera for 180 seconds without context switching to unlock. Practice focus to unlock distraction.

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180 seems very high to me and I've already quit social networks (well, except for some forum-like ones such as HN).

I like the idea, though, maybe five minutes for every 30 seconds of non-distracted gaze? Or something like that and tunable. Maybe even dynamic to the amount of time spent scrolling the feed in the last x hours?

People burn through half an hour scrolling like it was nothing. 3 minutes is a bargain!

Maybe it can auto-relock on a timer, while the required time increases every time?

Whatever floats your boat! But I'm wary of creating reversed incentives.

I can't let it lock! That would increase the cost. Must keep scrolling.

> 180 seems very high to me

Sounds like you would benefit from training 3 minutes at a time for starters!

If 180 is high you've got Tiktok Brain my friend.

If the task is to look at a camera lens uninterrupted, yeah, it's high. If it's reading or doing a creative endeavor, that's very brief. I was speaking in terms of the camera lens. There are so many other things I would rather be doing for three-plus minutes, and none of them are TikTok

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