this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2026
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A lot of people made new years resolutions about using social media less. So now we have an optional daily time limit! It's in https://piefed.social/user/settings. Bear in mind that it only counts time spent with a PieFed tab in the foreground - when you switch to another tab on another website to read a news article the timer stops. So you might need to set this lower than you think for it to be effective.

One nice thing about the fediverse is we don't need to optimize for addiction and try to keep you here longer than you want to.

The warning pops up with every page load so just clicking through it once won't work. It's for your own good!

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hey Cris, hope you're doing well!

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey blaze ☺️ I'm doing alright!

Its been an iffy week in some respects but today has been pretty good and I'm excited to be back in therapy :) I hope life is treating you well! ❤️

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Nice if it's a good day! Yes, thank you ❤️

[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wow, that's cool! But why hours? 30 minutes or 45 minutes or 90 minutes could be valid choices as well. :D

I personally would not want to spend an hour using Piefed on a single day, that'd be too much for my taste.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 15 points 6 days ago

Ah ok. It should be pretty easy to make it possible to put things like 0.5 in there, in a future version.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 8 points 5 days ago

Stop calling my use of the fediverse out @rimu@piefed.social.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

Oh man, time to touch grass.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

If you go into your browser's dev tools then into the Local Storage section you can delete or reset the timeSpent and dailyTimeSpent values.

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[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 6 points 6 days ago

Really groovy stuff, thanks!