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A mindful, privacy-focused, federated social app to share your most important life moments with family and friends.

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this begs the question: if the apps we use every day to keep in touch with our friends and family were designed with the goals of connection and healthy communication in mind, would we [...] need to take a break from them in the first place?

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Beyond the Digital Detox - frequency social
Why willpower can't beat manipulative design
frequency.leaflet.pub
January 2, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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This completely ignores the deliberatively manipulative design of the apps we open compulsively. There are literally 1000s of engineers, product managers, and behavioral researchers whose job it is to design the apps we use to be as addictive as possible!

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Beyond the Digital Detox - frequency social
Why willpower can't beat manipulative design
frequency.leaflet.pub
January 2, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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The issue with digital detoxes is that it puts the blame on us - it suggests that the issue is just that we have insufficient willpower and we could put our phones down at any time if we really wanted to.

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Beyond the Digital Detox - frequency social
Why willpower can't beat manipulative design
frequency.leaflet.pub
January 2, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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Unpopular opinion: you don't need more willpower. You need better designed apps.

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Beyond the Digital Detox - frequency social
Why willpower can't beat manipulative design
frequency.leaflet.pub
January 2, 2026 at 10:28 PM