- Get bored.
- Open Reddit.
- Remember I’m not using reddit today.
- Open Lemmy.
- Go do something else.
- Go to number 1.
ive been spending anywhere from 1-4 hours a day on reddit for the past…13 years? probably the most ingrained habit i have. Broke that habit as of two days ago. Weirdly enough, its not even that difficult. Its like i just understood that its time to move on, like a breaking point in a toxic relationship.
Only downside so far is having nothing to do during public transit. Not enough hobby specific discussion here yet, everyone keeps babbling about leaving reddit, like i am right now… xd
Find a community that you like here and create post and talk. Only way around reddit for now. Give it a week and it will die down
The blackout is over after tonight, so I guess we’ll see how things go then. I left because rif is shutting down on the 30th, so I figured I might as well cut the cord now. I deleted the app when the first sub I subbed to went dark, and I haven’t looked back. Today is my third full day without it. I haven’t been on Lemmy as much, which is definitely a good thing, lol, but I’m really enjoying it so far. The community seems much more conversational and less offensive. I don’t get offended easily, but when people do it just for the sake of being offensive, I don’t like it, and reddit was full of those people.
Most of the redditors only use reddit. To get news, memes, communicate, QnA, everything. That’s the reason this protest isn’t that effective. People are still gonna browse now and then and give them the sweet ad money, because people literally have nothing else to do.
lt would be a lot harder to say goodbye if they cared about having us.
Yeah, same here. Lemmy sort of scratches the itch, but it’s a big itch.
Communities will need time to grow again, but I’m hopeful and cautiously optimistic
Same. It reminds me of the early days of reddit with those small communities. Unless reddit goes back on its changes, more and more people will come here.
We might get some dope 3rd party apps and then we’re golden.
One can only hope!
Off to a bigger start than reddit was, I think.
Any time you feel the urge to open reddit, make a post on Lemmy…
It might take a minute, but this will be the new exciting place if we keep at it.
I have had Reddit is Fun in the home buttons on my phone for the last 10 years. I pulled my phone out of my pocket an muscle memoried Reddit open like 20 times today.
I just switched Jerboa into that spot. It is crazy how much that changed things.
That’s exactly what I did. RiF is still installed on my phone, but right now Jerboa has taken it’s place. I hope /u/talklittle does something with the backend that allows it to work with Lemmy, Kbin, or others.
Crazy how Jerboa, an alpha app, is much better than the official app of a multimillionaire company. Also, I already don’t miss using RiF. This is my new home.
Jerboa has it’s issues. I would take a Lemmy is Fun in a second. Good for an alpha level app that wasn’t prepared for this influx of users. Jerboa definitely got better with today’s update.
I would love to see a Lemmy app using the RIF design! The RIF developer is focused on an app for Tildes right now, but even something just copying the interface would be nice to see.
I did the same. I removed the reddit icon and found myself tapping it’s empty location several times. I replaced it with Jerboa for Lemmy and it fills the void a bit.
This is exactly what I did. It is working so far.
I on the other hand feel free lol. I have no urge to check reddit and I’m still exploring lemmy. Also it’s just better to go do other things instead of wasting my phone battery just for the sake of wasting time.
Yeah, I’ll admit there is the excitement of having a new toy and figuring out how it all works. That takes away some of the boredom or time I’d be scrolling reddit.
Learning >>>> Doomscrolling.
Even if the “learning” is yet another Doomscroll app.
This blackout has highlighted the extent of my scrolling addiction.
I purposefully moved RIF off of my home screen. My stupid muscle memory kept tapping it every time my idle brain opened the phone. Trying out Jerboa as an app for lemmy at the moment.
Exactly my experience and what I ended up doing, put Jerboa on the spot I normally have RIF
I’m on a Pixel so not sure if what I’m about to say is possible for everyone, but I used “Digital Wellbeing” to set a usage limit of 0 minutes for RiF, then put Jerboa in the same spot. Working for me at least to not have to completely change muscle memory.
Went to go get some errands done, and come back to find I have more Lemmy upvotes than I had karma in the last 10 years lol.
And you’re back, just as the cycle foretold.
Jerboa (mobile app for Lemmy) is really great so far! Feels basically the same to me as Boost was. The sign in process is a little odd (top left hamburger menu, accounts, add account).
I’m staying here, I’m done with Reddit.
I’m sorta looking forward to how lemmy/beehive/fediverse system improves. It’s kinda exciting. Like sure things are a bit rough around the edges for now but so was reddit for a long time. Seems like there’s a lot of people working to improve and make it better, and the communities are actually pretty big! I’m excited to get off reddit, that shit was getting stale and I’m hoping that this “reset” will also help build new communities that aren’t just reposting the same shit over and over again.
Yeah I’ve been enjoying that aspect too, finding posts from communities I’ve never heard of before.
I never paid for Reddit, but I’ve already donated to Lemmy.world (mastodon.world) and the Jerboa app. I’ve done the same for signal. Just a couple of coffees worth, but I see myself doing it from time to time as I remember.
I’m just so pumped about the way things are growing here, and think this federated donation-based model for a Reddit-like app is fantastic.
Yeah, I’m really liking this app. Works pretty smoothly and has great UI.
I got permabanned on reddit and twitter so i’m staying here too
probably dodged a bullet
Yeah, made moving here a little easier, i literally got banned because i forgot to turn on the NSFW tag on a post lol
I rode my bike and did the dishes lol
At the same time?
What no Reddit for a day does to a person
When else am I supposed to do dishes?
That’s talent.
I am talented
It’s usually difficult for me to break habits, but right now I’m motivated by rage and contempt, which is making it a lot easier. And the fediverse is like a methadone drip to come down from the heroin-like addictiveness of endless information.
Tip: instead of opening reddit, just search “reddit” and read all the tech news articles shitting on Steve Huffman in diplomatic ways. It’s very satisfying.
I thought I was addicted to Reddit, but compared to some of you I was totally fine all along! Hurrah!
Perspective may not fix my problems, but it sure makes me happy I’m not those guys.
For me, reddit was mostly something I browsed in a moment of boredom, micro breaks from work to clear my mind, or on the toilet.
Unlocking my phone and clicking on the app was one of those muscle-memory actions I wouldn’t even think about. Especially when stoned…
I’ve unlocked my phone and clicked on the empty space in my home screen before I consciously processed what I had just done.
I’ve now replaced it with jerboa for lemmy haha.
I’ve gotten more done today than I have in a long time. And spent plenty of time in the Fediverse too. I’m loving this so far.
At this point Ive completely replaced my addiction to reddit with one to lemmy
I kept doing this and finally just moved the Jerboa for Lemmy app to where I had RIF and it’s been working great.
That’s what I did too. It’s not quite the same. But muscle memory doesn’t betray me at least.
Jerboas a really nice app. Very customizable like RIF
This did the trick for me as well
I removed the app from my home screen and that made things easier.
I replaced it with Jerboa. Muscle memory will help :P
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Just realized how many users I’ve tagged to remember encounters with on Boost. Good and bad, helped me steer clear of a few trolls.
Will have to ask for that functionality from Jerb. Highly key.
That were first two days here, but now I’m invested, people started to share more and suddenly i catch myself scrolling Lemmy for 15 minutes instead of working
Amen. Half the battle is actually contributing/replying for engagement metrics, so here I am :)
I wish I could find an enjoyable experience, but it’s tough to use Lemmy the way I want on iOS. I’m sticking with it though and hoping tooling catches up soon.
Try Mlem! It’s still in Testflight (beta version for iOS), but you can create testflight account and download it for free. It will also help creators of the app find bugs and whatnot! I’m using it rn and it’s nice, they’re very passionate about it! if not mlem you can also open Lemmy on safari and then make webapp by tapping share icon and then choosing “add to home screen”. It will create bookmark on home screen that dont have browser interface and it’s working really good actually.
I’m currently doing both of those, but neither suit my preferred Reddit workflow.
I want to see fresh posts from across the entire fediverse. I don’t care about things I’m subscribed to.
Safari iOS will auto refresh the “hot” page and it’s unreadable because it’s constantly scrolling as new posts are loaded in.
Mlem doesn’t allow you sort All posts by Hot at all :(
You can change default sorting in Lemmy settings, but i agree that constant refreshing is frustrating :(
Yeah, I don’t even mind manually changing the filters to get what I want. I just literally can’t read while posts are flooding in.
It will get better. Tooling will evolve as users join.
I suppose I might just be a crazy person, but this seems as good a place to ask as any.
Any reason my upvotes (& downvotes for that matter) don’t seem to stick? Just made an account and was scrolling thru this thread, upvoted some comments. And within like 2 seconds, the blue upvote highlight disappeared and the comment score went back to what it was before I had interacted. Same with downvotes.
Imma try it on desktop soon.
i get this a lot randomly as well, on any platform. i assume it’s just a bug, sometimes hours later it’ll have worked on the server side, sometimes not. very annoying
Cool beans, thanks for responding.
It does seem to register ultimately even if seems to reverse on the front-end. In, other news how are you liking the switch over from reddit?
Trying to figure out the Lemmy system, it’s a bit obtuse at first glance. But as someone mentioned in another thread, that may just be a feature not a bug.
Haven’t deleted my account on reddit, but did replace the sync icon on my phone with jerboa. and just been avoiding old.reddit on the desktop. I feel like the kid in starship troopers stomping on bugs yelling “I’ll do my part!” (minus the animal cruelty, of course)
Yeah I wish people would stop posting on Lemmy about Reddit and start posting something interesting instead
That will probably take a while. The only reason we’re here is because of reddit and spez being a greedy pigboy, so naturally that’s gonna be a topic of discussion for a while.
Once this place has a chance to build up a bit of an identity, I suspect that’ll go away.
I think that major subreedits also have a place on lemmy helps getting everything closer to the old normal
It’s gonna be like this until the blackout is over. eventually we will move on from reddit
As the other community said, right now, we’re just here because of spez being an asshole. Let this situation end and it’ll normalize
