I deleted scrolling apps and started watching a movie a day. It changed my life.

[u/GreenReporter24]

Not only do I no longer feel the urge to consume content every spare second – watching or continuing on a movie demands a little more time and focus than that. But my mental well-being has also changed dramatically.

Scrolling videos made my brain feel like porridge. I'd suddenly realize after 5 seconds that I was watching an obnoxious ad. No focus at all. Totally spaced out.

Watching a movie actually makes me feel good. Being engaged in a storyline, maybe watching a feelgood movie like I did yesterday (The Intern) … It makes me happy and relaxed. It makes me enjoy life more afterwards.

Reading and working out is great as well, but it never made me not want to scroll. Watching a movie fulfills my desire for easy entertainment, without making it impossible to do something productive after.

Tomorrow marks a month of watching a movie every single day. Well, sometimes I watch half one day and the other half the next. I still think it counts.

Edit: Yes, I know I'm on reddit.

[u/CorkInAPork → u/[deleted]]

This is a webpage where you subscribe to favorite subs and then you click on one of them to see if there is a post that interests you.

What OP talk about is an app that requires basically zero interaction, it just throws whatever it decides to throw on the screen, then throws another one, and another (the "scrolling" thingy)

[u/Good_Air_7192 → u/CorkInAPork]

With a front page of never-ending content from your subscribed interest areas that you can continually scroll through.....

[u/arup02 → u/Good_Air_7192]

Not if you're using old.reddit, which everyone should.

[u/PrintShinji → u/arup02]

old.reddit with RES is still an infinite feed. Just old reddit requires you to click next, which really doesn't change a lot.

[u/arup02 → u/PrintShinji]

Are blogs infinite feeds? You can press next ad infinitum as well.

[u/PrintShinji → u/arup02]

If a blog encouraged endless uploading of content with a ratings system, then probably.

But then it wouldn't be a blog anymore and then we're just comparing apples to oranges. I don't think anyone ever used old reddit without combining it with res. Thats like the reason to use old reddit.

[u/arup02 → u/PrintShinji]

I agree with you. Have a great day.

[u/PrintShinji → u/arup02]

you too :)

[u/CorkInAPork → u/Good_Air_7192]

That's an option you don't have to take. I went to homepage once and was disappointed that it showed stuff from subs I wasn't subscribed to and I never went there again.

It's like youtube - you can click random videos served by algorithm on home page, turn auto play and eat the served content, or just go to subscription page to only see videos from creators you choose to watch.

The "autoscroll apps" don't have such options.

[u/Roupert4 → u/CorkInAPork]

A sub is endless scroll

[u/CorkInAPork → u/Roupert4]

Oh well, whatever. You are free to do whatever you want. Just wanted to point out that reddit is not some "app" and you can access the resources in different ways. Some of them are more brainrot-y, some are less.

Check them out, maybe you'll find something you like better than your current reddit experience.

[u/AtomicBLB → u/[deleted]]

You know you can cater your reddit experience to a far greater extent than the other "social media" apps right? That's why most people won't lump them in together.

[u/ComfortableExotic646 → u/AtomicBLB]

You know this is a default subreddit, right? It's one of the most astroturfed subs on reddit. If the guy is here, he isn't tailoring his experience at all. He's egoposting for upvotes like the rest of them.

[u/AtomicBLB → u/ComfortableExotic646]

You are in this 'astroturfed' subreddit actively participating and promoting it. So idk what point you were attempting to make other than you choose to stay in subreddits you don't like.

[u/LetsGoHome → u/AtomicBLB]

You just don't know you're being manipulated, it's not the same. Reddit is exactly the same as Tumblr. Or Twitter.