When you join a social network, you have nothing-no friends, no followers, no likes. But as you continuously post content, you could begin to gain more and more likes and comments. Those may attract new followers. And that shot of dopamine will motivate you further to post more. A new app named Palmsy attempts to be social media methadone by allowing you to post anything and receiving likes on them.

But the catch is nobody can see the posts.
You can post as much as you want. In fact, the application even lets you attach photos to your posts. But you're blasting those posts into space. Developer Pat Nakajima said on Threads that no post leaves your device and all likes are fake.

A free app, working on iPhone and iPad, reads your contact list in a manner that will assign pretend likes to posts. Because all posts are local, the contact information is not sent to a server when the app reads that information.

"It can be fun to see Likes coming in from folks you haven't thought about in years. It can also be useful in maybe deleting some contacts you might not need anymore," Nakajima writes in the FAQ section of the app.

Beyond the contacts, you could treat it like a personal diary or even where you get to disburden any terrible puns for good-no one's really going to judge you. It's up to you.

Recently, the developer has issued the application with some advanced options that let you block the number of likes for a post in general and how long you want those likes to come: in a few seconds, in a few minutes, in a few hours, or even in a few days.

There are some other apps that are working with time limits to minimize and reduce addiction over social networking applications. There are a few developers who have even come up with very basic versions of apps that enable users to share dumb posts but without that implication.

In 2017, developer Dan Kurtz released Binky, which spewed out a faked feed for you to interact with. In 2018, former Google Reader product manager Jason Shellen relaunched Brizzly as a website, in which you could put whatever you liked in a text box and hit send. The posts go nowhere and you can't even see them once you hit send.