While Lemmy is significantly less engaging, it is a lot better at that. I'm glad, especially knowing the algorithm isn't run by some money hungry people.
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Reddit saved my life through making the service literally unusable. I was finally able to break an over decade long addiction to the service. Doc said if I had continued, the cancer would spread through the computer into me.
Curing instagram addiction is easy. Just unfollow everyone you don’t know in person. Cut my instagram time from ~2h/day to 5 minutes every other day
Same here! Since I quit Reddit, I've lost 120 lbs, gotten promoted, and learned to play the piano!
I started reading books much more. I'm glad about that.
Continue on doing that.
I will. I got all these library apps on my phone so I go to those instead of social apps. Or I do surveys for money; I've made a lot of cash that way! Something productive feels better.
Good for you, buddy. I always keep at least a book or two on my phone in the form of audiobooks and a pretty big pile next to my bed. Unfortunately, a slow reader even after so many years.
What are you reading lately?
Relistening Hobbit with Andy Serkis and Min Kamp by Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Struggle_(Knausg%C3%A5rd_novels)
Thanks! Always looking for ideas.
For real. I miss the old Reddit. I recently took a digital walk down memory lane and found my first reddit link from 2007!
Good times. I miss Aaron Swartz too. Knowledge is power and he sacrificed himself for freeing knowledge.
Reddit to me is the digital Kowloon Walled City. Crazy place where you can find anything but also needs to be demolished.
Same, I miss old Reddit too
There’s Pixelfed, something of a fediverse Instagram. In many ways it’s actually better, even. But it’s pretty mature at this point and has a bunch of QoL stuff going on, such as mastodon signup/login thing.
Unfortunately I think ig crowd is much less likely to move on to fediverse alternatives than Twitter or reddit folks.
Hard to just quit ig for me too, when I have brand accounts to keep up and active, and it’s also actually the last social media I have family members and relatives on, and only thing allowing me to move would be for them to join fediverse somewhere, not necessarily pixelfed, but thats unlikely to happen very soon.
actually the last social media I have family members and relatives
The reason I quit Facebook was because of my relatives. They post bullshit conservative posts and stuffs and share it. Was fed up of seeing it on a daily basis. The moment these people enter Instagram I will be gone from it for good.
I hate what Instagram has become lately. First it became a Snapchat clone, and then it transformed into a TikTok clone. I preferred it when it was just a photo album.
But hard to quit when everybody use it.
Don't worry. As this site grows more and more contents are coming you will be back to normal. You will be watching yourself scrolling for hours.
I guess you're right. Especially with stimulating, retro looking stuff like old.lemmy.world
The people here seem much nicer...for the moment.
There was more shitty behavior than normal for a bit, but it's really calming down again. The vibe here is much more relaxed and accepting.
Cheers Steve!
Same here, I've found myself being more productive and having more time. It's also a refreshing experience to be part of an early platform again and seeing it progress.
Agreed. I also downloaded a rss reader and am doing better about actually reading articles instead of going to comments to get the synopsis.
Which RSS reader do you like?
I’m on iOS and purchased Reeder. Some of the other apps have some nice features from what I read, I just didn’t want to pay a monthly subscription for an RSS feed.
Reeder has been great so far and I like that it has the ability to follow mastodon users and YouTube channels built in. The twitter integration is broken for obvious reasons, but I’m fine with that.
I'm android and have been looking for a supplement, thanks for the info though.
only good thing to come out of this tbh
It bothers me when people think of social network use as addiction. If you went to a bar, restaurant, work or school you wouldn't see it as an addiction. I think that seeing social media as addictive is especially harmful when Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok use it to do immoral things. They hide behind the "but they're addicts anyway, so what does it matter?" Social networks are not addictive. They're compelling.
Does this mean that married people are addicts, to each other? Think the absurdity of calling social media addictive. It devalues our online communities to use such words.
TBH: If you really are spending a lot of time in bars, several hours a day, you also have to face some ugly truths about addiction. And there are also people addicted to work.
That's like saying playing video games for 10 hours every day isn't a sign of addiction because it devalues the gaming hobby.
Social Media addiction is a real thing. Every single popular social media app is designed to draw people in and keep them using it. The "drag down to refresh" is literally copied from slot machines.
This. Social media can be used in a healthy way, but that doesn’t mean social media addiction doesn’t exist.
They are addictive by design. They’re very much like slot machines in casinos. They want to take as much of your attention as they can to make profit.
Something becomes an addiction when you persist in doing it even though you know it's not doing you good or even actively causing you harm. By that definition, excessive internet use IS an addiction, because many people will endlessly doom-scroll their favourite sites even though they know there are more important things they should or could be doing.
Does this mean that married people are addicts
Codependent relationships can be classified as addictions
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