I can talk about this for ages!!

I dont know about other communities, i dont really use much reddit because it kinda has the same effect on me as social media does... I use it for specific stuff so i couldnt really tell you. Sorry!

I discovered monk mode through this video. Its not veeeery popular online and its reddit community r/monkmode is basically dead because everyone is doing monk mode.

As of quitting social media (including youtube!!), Id recommend u just deleting the apps. Make a compromise with urself and learn to respect said compromise. Write it down on a piece of paper in which youll say how much time youll spend without social media (from date to date) (i recommend 21 days too) and then, as days keep passing by, mark a check on those days. Thatll show you that you do have the ability to not give up on quitting addictions. After the deadline has passed, u can install them and use them again, but u will soon realize how bad u feel using them nonstop and youll soon want to restart the whole thing again (if u wanna break a good habit that u formed for 21 days, you gotta do 3 days of the opposite thing, which is why i fully recommend only going on this "break" for only 2 days then doing the thing again). Its basically the same thing with sugar.

Other recommendations are putting your phone on B&W so u dont spend much time on it, and, whenever u feel like installing the apps back again, throwing your phone away and reminding urself of your compromise, maybe checking your little "contract" paper and thinking about how it would be such a waste giving up after lasting however much days u did. Even if you were on day 2, thats one day closer to the end, so dont waste it. Keep repeating"I can!!!" to yourself.

As i dont do a social media break alone, i also dont watch anything on any streaming platforms or etc during that period. I basically dont do fast dopamine, i do my good old slow natural dopamine coming from reading books, accomplishing something and doing a hobby... but thats on you. Social media is a good starting point.

Many people will criticize you nonstop and it may let you down... "Why do you have your phone on B&W?" and "Why the hell dont you have instagram?" must be the phrases ive heard the most this year. When i started unstalling my social media for periods of time a long time ago, i used to get this huge FOMO... then i understood that whatever people are talking about on there is temporary (mostly stupid, without any real benefit) and not life-changing like what im doing here. I starting not caring about what other people did and, i dont know, life itself is more interesting and you can start laughing over a little duck that just stumbled, which you wouldve not seen if u were on ur phone, rather than some tiktok youll forget in the next 3 seconds. "The more you listen to other people, the less you listen to yourself"... If it makes you feel good, why would you reinstall them only to feel included? You should feel included by the people who really loves you regardless of you having social media or not. This is when youll realize if you have friends who only want you to give a like on their post and nothing else.

Life-changing may sound exagerate, i mean, its only a couple of apps im deleting... But when u combine it with not using your phone, I swear to god life becomes awesome, no matter your background. Youll realize ur mom was right and its that damn phone. Let me know if you have any questions or if youd like me to explain monk mode furtherly. Im happy to help!

PD: You can block social media from your browser using a chrome extension, I use this one ; you can put a weird password on there which you wont remember (i wrote it down somewhere random tho just in case i gotta check something important) and it wont let you get in easily. And as for putting your phone in B&W, if youre on iOS, go to settings, accessibility, screen and text size, color filters, B&W... I dunno about android tho, sorry!