Same. I'm stuck in an area where locals view me as an outsider, and loneliness is an ever-present threat. Scrolling is just one of the many ways I keep myself feeling human and connected to the larger world.
But seriously, you can find a community with similar interests. There are lots of lonely people out here.. help solve each-others problem.
Discord gets a lot of shit, probably rightfully so, but it's genuinely helped me find a lot of casual connections that not just distracted me, but helped me learn more about something I like, or sometimes even somthing about myself.
Maybe some country will drop a nuke, or a supervolcano erupts, or america will experience a surprise land invasion and when any major event like that happens I want to be one of the first to know.
Now it never has happened and it probably won't in my lifetime but don't tell my brain that.
...i was scrolling usenet around 17.30 CDT on april 29th, 1992 when a friend posted that a riot was gathering outside his window; the news broke about an hour later...