The modern internet, with ever-refreshing recommendations, is fully intended to be addicting. Possible mitigations: make it very inconvenient to repetitively view social media. Examples:
- Create UBlock rules to remove recommendations, only keeping the search bar on the youtube home page so if you want to watch a video you have to explicitly seek it out
- Redirect an address like reddit.com in /etc/hosts so it is inaccessible
- Seek out more productive forms of social media, and set loose timers for accessing them so you don't get caught in infinite scrolling
- Do not have social media apps on your phone
- Turn off internet when doing productive work if possible. Or employ context switches - one browser for fun, another for work.
- Create UBlock rules to remove recommendations, only keeping the search bar on the youtube home page so if you want to watch a video you have to explicitly seek it out
- Redirect an address like reddit.com in /etc/hosts so it is inaccessible
- Seek out more productive forms of social media, and set loose timers for accessing them so you don't get caught in infinite scrolling
- Do not have social media apps on your phone
- Turn off internet when doing productive work if possible. Or employ context switches - one browser for fun, another for work.