“Again, Twitter’s interface was very intentionally designed to maximize the amount of time per day a person spends online. The Fediverse really doesn’t need that, but it has it anyway. That’s why I’m proposing that we reevaluate the way we design Fediverse interfaces and clients in light of how we can best strike a balance between creating a positive experience and one that puts the well-being of the person using your product first.”
After reading this, one idea we could add into lemmy UI to promote better digital well being, is to add a configurable daily site timer that warns you every minute you hit and spend above your chosen time limit. iirc both android and ios have something like that already for app usage.
I’d much prefer a different approach: I see timers as a nag, and suggest that I’m doing something wrong, which I’m not.
If, instead, Lemmy only showed my unread articles, unseen responses to comments and then stopped the feed and made me consciously select to load old articles or articles from communities I don’t subscribe to, then I have to opt in to negative behavior, rather than being nagged into opting out.
We are going to add a
Hide read postssetting sometime soon, there’s a github issue for it.Kind of like how you have unread messages marked? As long as there is a way to clear it, or turn the setting off since I know that I often take long breaks from places and returning to a huge number might make me not want to engage…which I guess is a good thing? Hmm now I am not sure but do agree this design would be nice generally speaking