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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Added Mlem to the spot where Apollo once lived. Hope it can live up

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Do your part by posting. Or doing what redditors do best - repost!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Writing from mlem now :D. Thanks for the tip

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 😉

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

SERENITY NOW

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i need to heal my brain from mindless scrolling

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Now we can do it on Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For me Jerboa is now where Infinity for Reddit used to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Using Jeroba instead of Baconreader, but yep...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can always try replacing it with this TestFlight app Memmy. https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmy/discussions/13

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for this, I wasn't really liking Mlem a whole lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

Doing my part 🫡

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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 :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Interact with that weird green stuff on the ground

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

there are bugs in it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Try an RSS aggregator app like Feedly and add all your favorite topics/sites. I filled mine up with web comics, car blogs and tech stuff. Also been getting into NPR lately, lots of interesting stuff and less of a focus on politics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

In solidarity with those post I deleted RIF from my phone. This is my home now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm doing my best to stay the fuck off the internet. fuck, I'm failing as of this very moment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I still occasionally type re into my browser search than look stupefied at the search bar when nothing shows up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Install Yu-Gi-Oh then or something?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Drop the apps my dudes. Browse the web, embrace Brutalists

Cheers

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