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When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally (futurism.com)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A specialized iPhone app was used to block internet access, recording any time that the feature was disabled.

In numbers, nearly all the participants — 91 percent — improved on at least one of the three outcomes, while around three-quarters reported better mental health by the end.

The findings even suggest that the intervention had a stronger effect on depression symptoms than antidepressants, and was roughly on par with cognitive behavioral therapy.

What's driving all this? Ward suggests that the simplest explanation is that the experiment forced participants to spend more time doing fulfilling things in the real world.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

It's always interesting when people from the Internet meet in-person. It should happen more often to the point when the people become friends and exchange it to real life socialising.

The demand is there and keeps increasing. I even thought about some platform where people from reddit/lemmy type of platform do stuff together like sports, outdoor, going to pub or something like that. I'm writing here about non-mainstream solutions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I like this idea, but I don't know how you build a site to facilitate that without also being super appealing to children and pedos at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Interesting idea. I suppose you could start a Lemmy community for meet ups for people in your country. I don't know how easy it would be to find willing people who are relatively local to you though.