• Gerryflap@lemmy.world
      261·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I did the same with Jerboa a few days ago. I keep clicking it, and it’s actually building the “good” habit of using Lemmy instead of reddit. There’s less content here though, but maybe that’s a blessing in disguise. Filling the “mindless scrolling of the internet” time with something useful should be my actual goal. So having less stuff to browse might help with that.

      • Joe B@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Go to your communities/local communites or all in general and sort by new. or sort by new comments in the communities feed. you won’t be disappointed

    • StarManta@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Exactly the same. If I’m gonna have muscle memory take me there, it may as well be an app that serves a similar function.

    • PumpedSardines@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Downloaded mlem now, worse than Apollo but better than Reddit. And the content on here is about the same as for Reddit so I’m not complaining!

    • Wren 🪐English
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s what I did and it’s been working. Haven’t accidentally (or intentionally) opened Apollo once since the black out started

  • mvu@lemmy.world
    362·
    1 year ago

    I got you

    • add ebook reader app to phone
    • download ebooks
    • pretend ebooks are long-form Reddit posts
    • become well-read while wasting time

    If you can’t read, download picture ebooks instead

  • Draksis@lemmy.world
    19·
    1 year ago

    Deleted Reddit and Twitter same day, I’m bored for sure but it’s kind of insane how addicted to information I am. Trying to break it is hard.

    • Xeon
      4·
      1 year ago

      Addicted to information, or (useless) scrolling through posts? It took me long, too long to be honest, that Reddit was mostly scrolling through useless information. I’m glad I’m done with Reddit now.

    • exoplanetary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Likewise. Their spots are now occupied by Lemmy and Mastodon. I really hope the fediverse takes off more, it reminds me of pre-2010s internet before the mass corporate takeover of social media.

    • gothicdecadence@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Addicted to information, that’s a good way of putting it. I feel the same! The constant stream from reddit took so much of my time. I do miss it and it’s still a good way to stay informed about what’s going on in the world. I much prefer the forum style to TikTok/Reels/Shorts/etc, which feels like brainrot if you spend any amount of time scrolling through

    • Megaf
      3·
      1 year ago

      Would you care to give Mastodon a try now?

    • Pixlbabble@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Information like food can be good for you or junk. I was always on old.reddit because I tried to stay away from the endless scroll as much as possible. I take walks when I get super bored. I have a ton of hobbies and responsibilities I can work on, the walk helps the bored feeling go away and I get an idea of what I really want to do. 4 days clean off Reddit brotha.

    • Ado
      7·
      1 year ago

      Now we can do it on Lemmy!

  • kerbo
    17·
    1 year ago

    to be honest, I like lemmy. It’s a lot calmer.

    • Space_Racer@lemm.ee
      19·
      1 year ago

      While its does feel like reddit 10 years ago, the appeal to me became that reddit always had soemthign new no matter the hour of day. Hope Lemmy can get there.

      • Graphine@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah but back then the pro was that you could actually lead a productive fucking life off your phone lmao. Now if there’s always something new on Reddit it just leads into habit/addiction

        Personally the appeal for me has become the opposite. Because I have to wait for Lemmy to update, I can actually stay off my phone more and do more productive things.

      • gkd
        9·
        1 year ago

        Let me know any issues you run into or ideas you have! Will keep you guys all up to date

        Doing my part 🫡

        • BioMando
          8·
          1 year ago

          Consider, if you haven’t already, creating a community for discussions about the app!

        • DoakSteezy@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’m the guy that reported the bug this morning and although I have next to no knowledge of react projects am trying to implement my requested feature :)

          • gkd
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’ll be going through them in a few hours. Thank you!

    • qaz@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I just tried it and I like it a lot although it’s very barebones. It’s very similar to Apollo so my muscle memory carries over.

  • aragon@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 year ago

    Jerboa has been good so far. Somehow the discussions on lemmy feels more engaging than on reddit. Might be because there are no bots regurgiating comments. But the lack of my favourite subreddits have helped my phone addiction 😂 Hopefully this will be rectified soon 😉

    • PeterPoopshit
      3·
      1 year ago

      I just wish it was easier to explore other lemmy instances or do anything other than view already subscribed sections in jeroba. On android 11 and earlier you can at least go into settings and make it so that when people post links to other areas in lemmy it will open in jeroba but Google took away the ability to manually control which apps open what links in android 12.

    • const_void
      1·
      1 year ago

      Much less hate fueled comments and trolls over here. Hopefully it stays that way. If you looked at Reddit during the blackout most of the remaining content was ‘conservatives’ and hate.

  • deroverda
    12·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been thinking of deleting my Reddit account but haven’t gone through with it. This post motivated me enough to at least delete my Reddit app (slide for iOS). So many wasted hours I’ve been spending on that app just mindlessly scrolling like a robot.

    Now to my next addiction: watching YouTube videos which won’t make me smarter (gaming content) on my phone.

    • Unimpressionabletug
      5·
      1 year ago

      Now to my next addiction: watching YouTube videos which won’t make me smarter (gaming content) on my phone.

      Are you me?

      Jokes aside, I use(d) Apollo for my mindless scrolling of the internet. One feature that I loved was the option to turn off endless scrolling. You would reach an end and have to click to continue scrolling. Often I found myself on my phone without realising, and that feature managed to break me out of it each time.

      • deroverda
        1·
        1 year ago

        Hehe who knows? Brother or sister from a different mother.

        Cool feature, wish slide had that feature. So how do you deal with spending hours watching YouTube videos? The thing about YouTube is that you don’t need an app. You just enter YouTube in your web browser. Avoiding logging in to that site will require a huge amount of self-restraint and since I’ve got an addiction personality that isn’t easy.

    • malamignasanmig@group.lt
      1·
      1 year ago

      slide (ios) has the best interface among the foss 3rd party apps for reddit. was surprised that it looked different in android so i used infinity there, which isnt as nice.

    • msdos622@lemmy.worldOP
      17·
      1 year ago

      That’s what I did at first. But for me the beauty of reddit isn’t with the post themselves, it’s in the comments.

      • ritchie@lemmy.one
        4·
        1 year ago

        Same here. I miss the sub with my countrymen, where we could discuss the daily happenings/news. I liked reading different experiences on the topics.

    • awoo@lemmy.kemomimi.fans
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m still salty Google killed their RSS reader but glad to hear Feedly is still around. How is Feedly nowadays? Hope it didn’t turn to shit.

    • deroverda
      1·
      1 year ago

      Is Feedlys free version any good or do you recommend paying for it? Don’t know what I think about using an app when an rss feed could be easily read on a plain webpage.

  • boredScientist@feddit.nl
    5·
    1 year ago

    The whole debacle made me realize how much of an addiction I had to reddit (not like dysfunctional levels, but still…). App checking is definitely a weird side-effect, as is all the free time I have haha.

    For now, Lemmy helps in giving a similar vibe but the calmness (for now) makes it easier to set boundaries, I think. Hope to build healthier habits this time around!

  • narwhal
    5·
    1 year ago

    I’m actually spending more time on lemmy, hacker news, and (gasp) 9gag as well now.

    • HerculeanTardigrade@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Haven’t been to 9gag since a decade ago. When I was still a teenager, I used to be addicted with 9gag. Young me found le comics so entertaining and funny. It was so addicting doom scrolling on 9gag.

      When you see it, you’ll shit brix.

  • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Polymer clay. My first attempts were utter crap but within a week I was making really cool stuff. My last thing was a totoro ornament. Any polymer clay communities?

    • TheCatfish
      1·
      1 year ago

      If you can’t find it, start it? Surely that’s the beauty of this blank canvas we find ourselves in. And it’ll help the place keep growing. If no-one joins for a while then it’s a personal space to keep a record of all your creations that you can look back on to see how much you’ve improved over time