Abstract
The integration of digital technologies into everyday life has produced complex digitalecologies in which platforms, algorithms, and social practices jointly shape experience,identity, and emotional regulation. Although research on digital well-being hasincreased significantly, little is known about how individuals reflect on their digital livesand the practical criteria they develop to navigate these environments while preservingwell-being and autonomy.,This paper addresses these questions through qualitativeresearch conducted within a digital community of 100 adults residing in Spain whoseparticipation unfolded across four successive waves. Fieldwork combined individualjournals, thematic forums, and an open social space, generating a longitudinal corpuson the everyday experience of inhabiting digital spaces. Results were interpretedthrough discourse analysis to reconstruct shared patterns of meaning and discursivepositions.,Findings reveal an ambivalent relationship with digital environments: thesame tools that enable connection, communication, and access to information are alsodescribed as sources of noise, overstimulation, attention fragmentation, and loss ofcontrol. Alongside these discomforts, participants describe daily repertoires ofadjustment that crystallise into distinct discursive positions from which they inhabitdigital ecologies and develop good practices.,We propose that good digital practicesshould not be understood as a universal list of self-regulatory norms, but as relationalcompetencies developed through reflection and experience. Methodologically, thestudy shows that a digital community is a particularly suitable tool for examiningeveryday, complex, largely automated phenomena, since it enables participants toobserve, compare, and transform their digital experience into practical criteria guidingtheir relationship with digital ecologies.