This does sound like a good suggestion. Controlling social media and consumption of screen time is no bad thing if you are aware of it's issues.

Whilst it's not what you're looking for specifically, I found it very helpful to scroll an amount of posts down, then read upwards, as a means of curbing my urge to doom scroll.

I built a task in Automate to set a timer everytime I open the app, and it reminds after so long.

I could set it to automatically close the app, too, but that felt a bit forced and more of an annoyance when I was in the middle of an article.

I still think your suggestion is more user friendly, though, just thought I'd share my personal solution

Sounds like you need a timer on your Lemmy app.

In Android: Settings -> Digital Wellbeing -> Dashboard

There you can set timers for specific apps, which let's you use those apps for only the amount of time you specify, per day.

I hope this helps you!

Excellent suggestion and a good way to keep social media consumption in check.

Your phone likely has a way to limit the amount of time you can spend on an app. For me it's under "Digital Wellbeing". I'd rather point people towards that than have the dev get sidetracked on implimenting this.