Early Facebook guy: "We built Facebook to consume as much of your time and attention as possible." nymag.com/selectall/2017/11/fa

This. This is why I need to set things up so that boosts and favs are off in the notifications column by default. This is why I keep on thinking about ways to make boosts a thing you do less of.

I want dragon.style–and all of Mastodon–to be a thing you visit *briefly* and *leave*, instead of a time parasite.

Close the tab and do something that makes you happy.

This spurs the idea: what if I built a button that you could press, which said "don't let me back in here for A Little While"? You'd stay logged in but you'd just get a polite, friendly refusal to serve More Content to you.

Lockout time should probably be configurable by the user.

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@anthracite I need this in SO many facets of my life that it isn't even remotely believable.

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