Researchers found college students who tried to cut their social media use to 30 minutes per day scored significantly lower for anxiety, depression, loneliness and fear of missing out at the end of the two-week experiment and when compared to the control group.
Honestly after leaving Reddit I can say that I already feel like my baseline mood has improved massively, just from not spending so much time every day scrolling through yet another school shooting and yet another life-hostile proposition by some Republican politician.
Generally it helps that Lemmy isn’t super US-centric (yet?).
I always kept off of ALL generally for this reason and made liberal use of the block feature for subreddits that were toxic. When kept just to my own subscriptions I had only myself to blame for my reddit experience. However I am liking the tone and feel of Lemmy. I’m pretty happy to migrate here.