Privacy reasons aside, a big reason I ditched social media and much of the normiesphere technology is the distract-ability. I take great care and pride in reducing unwanted automated interruptions to zero. My phones only make a noise if a cleared human on the other side is initiating the noise. There are zero "check this out" or "your coins reward is ready" crap pinging me, and I won't have it!

ADDENDUM: my abridged phone stack is:

GrapheneOS (there is nothing better)

Mullvad (audited by police raid) & Tor

Syncthing-Fork (because f' the cloud)

Fennec (+uBlock Origin,Sponsorblock,Tampermonkey)

Tor Browser Bundle (anti-glowie browsing)

BraveNewPipe (multiplatform and search settings)

Seal (decent yt-dlp wrapper)

Session F-Droid & Briar (anti-glowie messaging)

I had a friend who developed a problem with alcoholism. He went through a period of time where he'd stop by the bar several nights a week to have a single beer because he thought it was important to his social circle.

To no one's surprise, that one drink often turned into two drinks. Two became four, then six, then eight, then he was blacked out on a Wednesday again.

It took some time, but he finally admitted that his habit of visiting the bar was a trigger for the exact behavior he was trying to avoid.

When I see someone talk about how they have a severe social media addiction that they're trying to overcome, but then go on to talk about how they're a moderator on the platform they're trying to avoid, I see the exact same thing.

I don't know what else to say, other than that my friend is doing fantastic now that he's stopped visiting bars at all. He discovered that once he removed the bar as an option for his free time, he realized how many healthier alternatives there were in the real world. He wasn't constantly playing the game of moderating his alcohol intake because he wasn't in environments where he had to. He's much happier now.