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Participants were measurably happier and less anxious.

But disappointingly, not by a huge margin:

Perhaps this is due to the fact a significant number of users switched to less harmful online platforms and didn't stop using their phones.

Or perhaps there is actually something more sinister. My real concern with this study is the involvement of Meta.

We actually have evidence that Meta halted internal research about social media:

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-social-media-harm-us-court-filings-allege-2025-11-23/

Would you study tobacco and have tobacco companies involved?

Would you study obesity and have Coca-Cola involved?

I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but could Meta actually bully/bribe Stanford in order to change the figures?

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[–] thenose@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (7 children)

I deleted the apps. I don’t visit those sites in alternative ways but I crave it man. I miss doom scrolling and I ended up on yt shorts. Way less of the time and my field seems to avoid viral trends so I guess it’s my nicotine patch: I still do it’s just not that harmful I guess. How are you guys dealing with it? Do you consider lemmy ass addictive/harmful as the mainstream socials?

[–] Hegz@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Personally I find there to be less new daily content on lemmy, so it ends up self limiting as I see the same posts again. Might just be what I’m subbed to, and or how I sort. But I do end up spending less time here than I did reddit, or I currently do on youtube.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

I think it comes down to an insufficient user base than is required to get the previous fix of social media.

This was a problem in the early days of Facebook as well...

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 6 points 9 hours ago

Leechblock and unhook are required browser extensions for me.

YouTuber is extra tricky because I can easily convince myself that I'm not wasting time, I'm "learning". Even though I doubt I'll ever need to know how to build a mud hut with a secret swimming pool underneath....

In general, I found if I remove the addictive elements from YouTube or whatever, as opposed to blocking the website entirely, I'm more likely to stick to being sober. I treat my phone the same way, I use YAM Launcher to help remove distractions.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Do you consider lemmy **ass **addictive/harmful as the mainstream socials?

That's a very funny typo. But also kinda relevant. Lemmy's sorting "algorithm" is just a very basic sort. There's no personal tuning, just basic "does this post have more activity than this other one" so it's as un addictive as it can get really. Short of purposefully trying to be bad.

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Social media is just ragebait for me, lol. I have a Facebook account that I haven't used since 2015 and that's it. 🤷

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[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Can confirm, social media was making me depressed

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago
[–] Mac@mander.xyz -1 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

This might be unpopular but i genuinely believe it is our responsibility to be aware of the horrors.

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 9 hours ago

I'm just on FB for the Messenger, maximized to ignore the rest, since they make it all but impossible to use their network with third parties. Hmmm, sounds like Reddit now that I think about it, but FB did that move first. The hardest part of changing social media or any communications is getting the ones you want to stay connected with to use better alternatives. Again with the Reddit comparison, but look at how many stick with that still rather than branching out to a new thing like Lemmy. Or encrypted email.

But I agree with the title suggestion, any immersion of a single thing is damaging, and social media is by its nature and design addictive. If you can't control your intake, you should avoid what you can altogether.

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