You could say I’ve been taking a break from Lemmy too. From being on basically all the time, last week I only check in once in a couple hours to check RSS of my comms, reports and maybe the homepage for the biggest news.
I don’t see social networks as anything inherently bad, addictive or a waste of time. It may or may not be. There were times when I was a teen when I’d sit all day in front of a TV if I had nothing better to do. And when I did, I did something else. It’s the same with everything. Unless you actually start sweating and shaking, it’s not an addiction and you can just do other things whenever you want.