I feel like Reddit is a big basket of candy and goodies and I'm just sitting here staring at it telling myself not to touch. I've spent the time away by listening to podcasts and spending more time outside gardening and reading actual books and not a screen. It's really rewarding and freeing, but I miss interacting with a community so I'm glad to have been directed to Lemmy.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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I think you're going to find a little bit of a sampling bias asking that question here.
Trying to figure out Lemmy. It's not easy...
Also, replying to users who keep requesting access to our blacked out sub.
I spent it hunting down a reddit alternative and browsing on lemmy.
I'm not going back. Reddit will go downhill gradually as it tries to squeeze out value at the expense of the community, and that's not something I'm going to support it any way.
This is day 2 for me on Lemmy, plus a bit of time for the previous 3 or 4 messing about here and there. And... I'm kinda in love. I just hope there's more people showing up, with more content and such soon :)
Honestly, just taking a break from social media all together. Reddit was my main source of "media" for the past 7 years. I joined Lemmy to hopefully be a replacement. But it's nice to just have a cleansing every once in a while :)
Wasting my life on Lemmy instead.
The only valid answer!
Yeah I thought about trying to better myself like learn to bake a soufflΓ©, read a book, workout but then I just go to Lemmy
I keep habitually itching to use Reddit, but I just replaced the Home Screen icon with Mlem and itβs made that easier
Gardening. The weather is starting to warm up to summer temps so I have been going at it. Honestly, I'm not missing Reddit all that much and I don't see myself using it much in the future regardless of what they end up doing.
Itβs been raining in my historically rarely rainy city for the past two weeks and all I want to do is garden. My poor basil is just yellowing from how much water it has gotten and how little sun.
Definitely agree on not going back, I think Iβm only missing 1 or 2 niche communities that havenβt migrated yet but Iβm still hopeful
Well, Lemmy, of course! Also, discovering new sites at https://cloudhiker.net/explore, some Plex maintenance and even a little bit of baking!
I still opened RedReader by reflex a couple of times, but I closed immediately. So far, I don't miss reddit at all. I have been pleasantly surprised by how welcoming this community has been, thank you everyone!
I migrated over to Lemmy and am learning more about that. As crazy as it sounds, I have cut my screen time in half since the blackout. I think this has shown me Iβm on technology a bit too much and I need to go outside more and be more productive with my day.
Same, my bathroom time has easily halfed lol. But seriously, I really like the idea of the Fediverse, if I understand it right. Like, each 'sub-reddit' is it's own service, distributed from each other. Rather than Reddit which is centralized. I absolutely miss certain things about Reddit, /r/bestof was my longest subscribed sub. I don't think I'll be going back unless/u/Spez does A LOT of back tracking and apologizing.
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I visited Facebook.. It wasn't nice.
Yeah I've seen enough of my older relative's political views to know that one is a lost cause haha
Playing disturbing amounts of Factorio. Unfortunately a vast chunk of Factorio knowledge is on Reddit so I keep accidentally navigating there, fortunately the Factorio sub is dark so I can wander off again quickly.
My man
Not a man. Love your username though, as luck would have it my most recent endeavor was getting iron plates onto my new train network. Finally migrating from bootstrap to real base
Anyone can be my man, regardless of gender.
Deleted my reddit account on night's eve to the blackout and I've gotten the rss feeds of the subs that are too niche to lose track of. Out of that, Reddit is absolutely dead for me.
Trying to boost engagement on here and on Mastodon.
And playing LOTRO
Mostly Lemmy, Mastodon, ~~actually touching grass after years,~~ and for my less proud time-waster, Discord and Youtube.
Iβm spending the time, accidentally absentmindedly clicking on Apollo, seeing the protest posts and then force closing the app. Haha
Well, looking if this lemmy thing is a good replacement ;) So far seems this is the way to go!
I've worked the whole time. Just avoided checking r/sysadmin and have been checking !sysadmin@lemmy.ml instead (or however you link/tag a community).
On mobile I've habitually reached to tap the Sync Pro icon for Reddit several times, hesitated, and tapped Jerboa for Lemmy or mt kbin icon instead.
Also took our pup to the vet for some of his shots and played with him.
Iβm currently banned anyways. And I donβt really miss it, to be honest.
What caused you to be banned?
I made a comment in a not serious subreddit about how Iβd deal with certain people not respecting some specific rules local to my hometown. The comment was clearly camped-up and exaggerated for the comedic effect and fitted perfectly into the comments thread of that post.
This got your whole account suspended?
Yep. Got suspended for a week.
And I thought mods were power tripping.
I went a bit on reddit and then setup this instance getting it to work today.