Your journey in that article is very similar to the route I took. I quit video games, TV, and social media together at the beginning of 2021. I blocked Reddit,

Your journey in that article is very similar to the route I took. I quit video games, TV, and social media together at the beginning of 2021. I blocked Reddit, and also installed Unhook for YouTube so I see nothing but my subscriptions now. I probably relapsed around 100+ times in the subsequent years before I got a handle on it, and it all stemmed not from an addictive "urge" - like that for food or cigarettes' - but simply from being bored. I agree, it's impossible to replace something without filling the hole it left in your life. I needed to have something I could do when I had evenings free or a weekend to kill. For me, I filled it with sports/working-out, miniature painting, writing fiction, and making (speakers, dioramas, gadgets, and other fun things I find on Hackster.io). My life is so much more fulfilling now. I've shifted from one of sedative consumptive to active creation. I can't recommend it enough.