Wasting my life on Lemmy instead.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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Yeah I thought about trying to better myself like learn to bake a soufflΓ©, read a book, workout but then I just go to Lemmy
I keep habitually itching to use Reddit, but I just replaced the Home Screen icon with Mlem and itβs made that easier
Deleted my reddit account on night's eve to the blackout and I've gotten the rss feeds of the subs that are too niche to lose track of. Out of that, Reddit is absolutely dead for me.
I visited Facebook.. It wasn't nice.
Playing disturbing amounts of Factorio. Unfortunately a vast chunk of Factorio knowledge is on Reddit so I keep accidentally navigating there, fortunately the Factorio sub is dark so I can wander off again quickly.
Unfortunately a vast chunk of Factorio knowledge is on Reddit so I keep accidentally navigating there
I stopped playing, but played/designed a lot. Would be happy to answer your questions!
Have you tried https://lemmy.ml/c/factorio ? I currently cannot subscribe to / find it for whatever reason, but you could also ask there.
My man
Not a man. Love your username though, as luck would have it my most recent endeavor was getting iron plates onto my new train network. Finally migrating from bootstrap to real base
Anyone can be my man, regardless of gender.
Trying to figure out Lemmy. It's not easy...
Also, replying to users who keep requesting access to our blacked out sub.
I spent it hunting down a reddit alternative and browsing on lemmy.
I'm not going back. Reddit will go downhill gradually as it tries to squeeze out value at the expense of the community, and that's not something I'm going to support it any way.
I've worked the whole time. Just avoided checking r/sysadmin and have been checking [email protected] instead (or however you link/tag a community).
On mobile I've habitually reached to tap the Sync Pro icon for Reddit several times, hesitated, and tapped Jerboa for Lemmy or mt kbin icon instead.
Also took our pup to the vet for some of his shots and played with him.
aww puppyyy!! π₯Ί
Yes! Little Pembroke Welsh Corgi x Chihuahua mix. He's a cute little bugger!
We would love your smol dog over at https://lemmy.world/c/smol_dogs =P
You don't have to tell me twice! Thanks for the invite!
I might spam lemmy on my sub if things on reddit continue the way they are going. in fact i will probably have both subs open. i admit its fun here more then reddit. reddit i turned the sub automated
I think you're going to find a little bit of a sampling bias asking that question here.
I migrated over to Lemmy and am learning more about that. As crazy as it sounds, I have cut my screen time in half since the blackout. I think this has shown me Iβm on technology a bit too much and I need to go outside more and be more productive with my day.
Same, my bathroom time has easily halfed lol. But seriously, I really like the idea of the Fediverse, if I understand it right. Like, each 'sub-reddit' is it's own service, distributed from each other. Rather than Reddit which is centralized. I absolutely miss certain things about Reddit, /r/bestof was my longest subscribed sub. I don't think I'll be going back unless/u/Spez does A LOT of back tracking and apologizing.
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I'm sure some will go back when the blackout ends, but I'm here to stay. Even if Spez apologies and backtracks, I wouldn't go back. They showed us who they really are and what they are going after. I'm not going to help them by giving them my data. I'd rather invest time, effort, and energy to this decentralized thing......as soon as I understand it more.
I will miss Reddit, but even if you go back it won't be the same.
Spent the day installing light switches that I've had sitting in the garage for a year. Pruned some shrubs, burned some leaves, raked some gravel, touched grass, etc. Almost never posted on Reddit. Full time lurker. Enjoying contributing to Lemmy just for the sakes of user interaction :) Let's stoke the fire!!
Well, looking if this lemmy thing is a good replacement ;) So far seems this is the way to go!
Mostly Lemmy, Mastodon, ~~actually touching grass after years,~~ and for my less proud time-waster, Discord and Youtube.
It's a little strange not having reddit to browse but it's been supplemented decently by Lemmy thanks especially to Jerboa (based off of the client I used for reddit: Boost, which is nice).
I feel like Reddit is a big basket of candy and goodies and I'm just sitting here staring at it telling myself not to touch. I've spent the time away by listening to podcasts and spending more time outside gardening and reading actual books and not a screen. It's really rewarding and freeing, but I miss interacting with a community so I'm glad to have been directed to Lemmy.
Uninstall Reddit so you're not tempted
Iβm currently banned anyways. And I donβt really miss it, to be honest.
What caused you to be banned?
I made a comment in a not serious subreddit about how Iβd deal with certain people not respecting some specific rules local to my hometown. The comment was clearly camped-up and exaggerated for the comedic effect and fitted perfectly into the comments thread of that post.
This got your whole account suspended?
Yep. Got suspended for a week.
And I thought mods were power tripping.