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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
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
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
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.
I thought I was addicted to Reddit, but compared to some of you I was totally fine all along! Hurrah!
Perspective may not fix my problems, but it sure makes me happy I'm not those guys.
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 youβre back, just as the cycle foretold.
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 kept doing this and finally just moved the Jerboa for Lemmy app to where I had RIF and it's been working great.
That's what I did too. It's not quite the same. But muscle memory doesn't betray me at least.
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
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.
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.
This blackout has highlighted the extent of my scrolling addiction.
I rode my bike and did the dishes lol
At the same time?
What no Reddit for a day does to a person
When else am I supposed to do dishes?
That's talent.
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
That were first two days here, but now I'm invested, people started to share more and suddenly i catch myself scrolling Lemmy for 15 minutes instead of working
Amen. Half the battle is actually contributing/replying for engagement metrics, so here I am :)
I removed the app from my home screen and that made things easier.
I replaced it with Jerboa. Muscle memory will help :P
Iβve found refuge in my kindle. I break the cycle by forcing myself to read books (trashy sci-fi novels mostly) But I DO want something to keep abreast of whatβs going on further from my brain, and Lemmy has almost enough content to get a relatively neutral feed of information. Wonβt take much to cross the watershed for meβ¦
I suppose I might just be a crazy person, but this seems as good a place to ask as any.
Any reason my upvotes (& downvotes for that matter) don't seem to stick? Just made an account and was scrolling thru this thread, upvoted some comments. And within like 2 seconds, the blue upvote highlight disappeared and the comment score went back to what it was before I had interacted. Same with downvotes.
Imma try it on desktop soon.
I replaced it was Jerboa, which I was very impressed with as an alpha app. It's already better than Reddit's official one.
i just replaced the Reddick icon with lemmy
Yeah, once I replaced RiF with the Jerboa icon it's like muscle memory Day 2 and I'm already used to jerboa/Lemmy/feddiverse whatever you wanna call it lol
Number one reason why I froze the Sync for Reddit app (with all the pain in my heart because I fucking love that app).
I deleted Boost from my homescreen and added jerboa. Seems to be working for now. I've also been on YouTube more than I've ever been in my life. Thank the devs for revanced.
Lemmy has replaced everything reddit was for me, so I just deleted the app
Seems we share a braincell..
I am getting more replies here and things feel overall more active than what I have seen on reddit in years. The fire has brought the engagement out in people and its a blast.
If you lack something to post, shitpost, for the cause.
Absolutely agree. The signal-to-noise ratio here is just incredible.
I got the hang of lemmy. Very simple. I've deleted all instances of reddit on my phone and won't use it on desktop. I love this site
I fuckin like Lemmy man. It's kinda jank on the app (Jerboa) but it's in alpha and they're doing a great job fixing it and making it intuitive. It's fun to talk in the comments, threads are smaller but the chat is real. I wish there was more content but it'll come.
Idk man it's cool I dig it.
I anticipated this and deleted my (3rd party) app icon on the 11th. Just migrated here today. This definitely fills the void for me. I'll only miss a select few subreddits.
Same, RIF will be dead soon once the API changes take effect. Might as well rip the bandaid off now.
I've done the same thing, but I think I'm finally used to not opening RiF. I just miss a few bigger communities, but otherwise Lemmy has been a fine alternative. Hopefully it continues to grow!
I ditched Reddit a few weeks ago for other reasons (I am going full FOSS/decentralised services). My Reddit account was 11 years old, I don't miss it at all.
