For me it used to be reddit but it’s ass now. Cohost moves pretty slow which is how I like it.
Doesn’t have to be scrolling! Could be whatever you replaced with your idle phone/computer time.
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“Reading” TTRPG books. I bounce around a lot and pick and choose mechanical sections. I should read the fiction stuff written in the books more but I don’t.
I wish I could read more in general but I just can’t do physical books anymore.
Also bop around between ESPN and Bleacher Report a lot for NBA news.
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We usually bounce between cohost, bulbagarden, and now this place looking at anything new or just looking at old stuff if we’re super bored.
The past few days whenever we’re on the computer and need something to keep our eyes/hands/brain occupied we’ll break open one of the Zachtronics solitaire games. We’ve been trying to crack the tarot-based solitaire the past couple days. It’s hard as hell and we haven’t won at all yet, but its very fun.
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This is something I’ve been trying to work on this year myself. I don’t know how others see it, but for me I think of scrolling as something negative that affects my mood and probably my long term attention span so I’ve been trying to stop it.
Partly I’ve been trying with just pure willpower, which is a mixed bag lol. I’ve been trying to learn to Put My Phone Away and simply exist, sometimes I can catch myself start to cycle a bunch of apps and tell myself “no” and sometimes the itch is too strong. I mainly Scroll on my phone, on break at work, while on public transit, or in bed. When I can’t control myself by pure will, I usually turn to Bloons Tower Defemse 6 or reading manga. I’ve put just a ton of manga on my phone, and Bloons is the perfect brain off time spending game with a ton of content I’m still working my way through.
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Like makku, I’m trying to do this less. I’ve ended up in a loop that contains Cohost, here, the Insert Credit forums, Tumblr, and a few Discord servers; this is still better than the one that contained Twitter though. On balance I think I feel bad more than good when on the loop.
I’ve kind of considered just shutting my phone off unless I am going out somewhere; it’s pretty rare that I need it at home and there’s virtually no one who needs to reach me via phone. I don’t even need it for alarms.
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Ve read individual Tumblrs without following them, or scroll through tags from time to time. Beyond the internet, I’ve found it nicer to simply go outside and walk around to get to know my neighborhood better.
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+1 to the trying to reduce scrolling crowd
Cohost is the only socmed site I use any more so it’s there or here, really, and both aren’t great for scrolling. this is good, because it means I scroll less!
I think a lot of my personal scrolling is down to wanting something to do with my hands while watching stuff, so I’m in the middle of trying to replace it with knitting to various degrees of success. I do love knitting though, and I’ve made some really cool stuff, so that’s a bonus. 
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I yoyo. Most of that idle time has been replaced with learning a new trick, refining what I know or going on autopilot and yoyoing as fidget activity. Next month with be 3 years I’ve been in the hobby. I’m making an effort this summer to get better at some alternative styles of yoyoing and get outside more. I’ll go to a park and practice for an hour.
Cohost was nice for me at first, it was slow, but as time went on I followed more and more people and I had to take a break because it started to feel like twitter. Using it again in small doses, unfolllowed a bunch of people.
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I try to use reading or playing a game on my phone called Bazoo (super fun discontinued multiplayer puzzle game) whenever i take long walks or trips i try to have something to keep my attention besides my phone. Mostly to save energy
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Getting the Libby app on my phone really helped to break me of Twitter long before the Muskification of the place. Now I’ll use Cohost to scroll a bit but otherwise I tend towards reading news via some sites I trust on my Inoreader feed or reading a book.
This wheel of time shit is LONG, y’all heard about this?
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It’s on the list… alongside so many other things 
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I read 8 of them last year after a friend’s wedding where some of us talked about them. They’re quite good, though I’m in what is generally referred to now as ‘the slog’ and then I’m not super pleased about having to read Brandon Sanderson.
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If I can keep away from TikTok this is all I do on my phone when there’s nothing else to do
Just a basic as basic comes picross
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picross gang picross gang picross gang picross gang picross gang picross gang picross gang picross gang picross gang
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i’m totally with you this is just such a funnily diplomatic response. “he insists upon himself.”
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PICROSS GANG PICROSS GANG
I like Hungry Cat Picross and Nonograms Katana :D
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I removed Tumblr and Twitter from my routines. I semi-replaced them with Cohost and Bluesky, but I also want to reduce the time I spend scrolling those.
Other things I do:
- The daily Crossword puzzle on Puzzmo
- Play games on Switch, Steam Deck, or recently I just got a GBA emulator on my phone
- Jot down a bulleted list of each thing I did that day, so that I can journal about that day later
- Log games I’ve played on Backloggd and log movies I’ve seen on Letterboxd just to have it all collected in one place for memory’s sake
I’m still looking for more ways to reduce the urge to scroll and refresh. I’d also really like to get something in here that is a bite-sized way of catching up on national news. I, luckily, never got into Insta or TikTok.
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hey i started doing this too! it’s very nice tbh, i like getting to use a pen and also i can look back on it when i feel like “i didn’t do anything today” and get down on myself lol
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Yeah it’s fun! For my quick bullets, I use a Google Doc on my phone because it’s quickest. But for the actual journaling, I use pen and paper.
It’s also a reminder for me how bad my handwriting is and how easily I make spelling/grammar mistakes when writing in pen, hahahaha.
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I would truly love to get into journalling (by hand preferably) but nine times out of ten I get to the end of the day and just… nothing comes to mind. like I could write about my day but most of my days are very similarly uninteresting, so it seems like a bit of a chore. I suspect it’s another way in which I am stymied by ADHD lol
ETA: one thing I DID do for a couple years that was labour-lite and rewarding enough to stick with was writing down One Good Thing that happened each day. it really is nice to look back on when you feel like nothing has ever been good and never will be good again - like evidence that that is demonstrably false. I should get back into it.
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