- Get bored.
- Open Reddit.
- Remember I’m not using reddit today.
- Open Lemmy.
- Go do something else.
- Go to number 1.
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 opened it twice today and was met with the ‘Reddit is killing Third-Party Applications’ and remembered I need to keep sticking it to the man.
Very much this. I’ve got an almost automatic habit of opening reddit when I’m bored and don’t have much to do. After a couple of times of seeing that message, I’ve been searching for the lemmy counterparts for my favourite subs. Turns out a lot of them are getting some steam!
Yeah, I’m surprised at how many I’m finding, and how many are already seeing activity.
Same. I just joined like >12h ago, and already there is some activity in channels, that I couldn’t find any discussion on a few hours ago.
I’m starting to use the word “sublems” instead of “channels” or “communities”. Maybe it will catch on.
Sublems is an absolutely fantastic word that I am now adopting! E.g. “Hopefully soon Jerboa handles sublem links better in comments. That’s something I loved about Relay”
Sublemmy?
And if you don’t see activity…Maybe think about creating one!
Same here. It is muscle memory still.
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
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.
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.
lt would be a lot harder to say goodbye if they cared about having us.
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.
Love this post, here have an updoot
I open Reddit way too often. Today I replaced my Reddit shortcut with Lemmy. Jerboa needs some refining but it’ll do for now. Let’s give it a go!
Jerboa has made the transition much smoother than I expected. Dark mode, card views and basic collapsing and font adjustment is such a relief.
The mobile browser version is already pretty satisfying though and feels almost like home as a long time RIF user.
I just noticed that I was 2 versions out of date (installed via F-Droid last week) and was annoyed at some usability bugs. The latest version seems nicer so far.
I’m interested in getting involved in development of Jerboa, so hopefully I find a few more annoying things that haven’t been fixed yet. Feel free to complain to me to hopefully motivate me to actually fire up Android Studio and get working on it.
Well here you go :-) I can’t scroll “Look and feel” settings in Jerboa. It just hovers the labels instead of scrolling down.
Hmm, I had a similar problem earlier with the “<user> settings” for default listing type (wanted to default to only stuff I’ve subscribed to), and then I reinstalled from Google Play (v0.0.33) and it worked. I’ll see if I can reproduce it on the latest code.
The main thing that bothers me right now is that sometimes it forgets I’m signed in when switching apps. I’m going to try reproducing that probably tonight to see if I can at least provide a workaround (e.g. pull to refresh should reconnect or something).
I too got the login issue, I found killing the app works for it to remember my account. I’m on version 0.0.33 too from F-Droid. As for the scrolling issue there is a comment on a GitHub issue mentioning it.
Cool. It looks like there’s a jerboa community here: jerboa@lemmy.ml. I joined that one and intend to be a bit more active there as I try to learn how to develop Jerboa.
I’ve commented once already that I hope the influx of new users helps the development of Jerboa and/or encourages other developers to build on Lemmy.
It would be nice seeing Lemmy is Fun/Boost for Lemmy/Sync for Lemmy clones popping up.
Jerboa has seen huge improvements in the last two weeks alone. I think there’s been a lot of traction on that front, and the dev seems particularly receive to feedback.
I personally use RedReader, the dev said he’s thinking of adding support for other sites like Lemmy or Tildes, so I’ll probably use that if it happens. The more choice the better though.
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
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
all AI on this instance, we keep the reddit stuff in meta.
I rode my bike and did the dishes lol
At the same time?
When else am I supposed to do dishes?
What no Reddit for a day does to a person
That’s talent.
I am talented
I switvhed the apps positions. Muscle memmory now takes me to lemmy!
Did the same thing, replacement is Jerboa!
I adore the app! Has slight Infinity vibes.
It’s inspired by Boost
Boost is what I have been using for years on android so this makes me super happy to hear. I’m gonna miss boost. I even donated to the dev a few times because I appreciated the app so much and he was very responsive when I wanted a new image hosting site to be supported within the app display.
@JackOfAllTraits @gimlithepirate great idea!
This worked lol.
Glad to help! 😄
Same. Def worked so far too.
This is the way.
Same here. Been using Mlem for iOS
It’s a very new app. How does it fare? I am on android but would like to know how things are going for the IOS.
Feels a bit like an early Apollo
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’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 thought I was addicted to Reddit, but compared to some of you I was totally fine all along! Hurrah!
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.
Perspective may not fix my problems, but it sure makes me happy I’m not those guys.
I replaced the reddit app shortcut on my phone with the Jerboa for Lemmy so that when, through sheer muscle memory, I try to open Reddit I open Lemmy instead.
Honestly, I hope I spend less time on Lemmy because I was on Reddit too damn much. Maybe this is exactly what I needed to break an unhealthy habit.
I just did this too. Only hope I have 😂
