Whatcha up to this blackout eve? How are you spending it? Anything you’ve made more time for? Do any of you feel antsy? Lmk! :)
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.
This is day 2 for me on Lemmy, plus a bit of time for the previous 3 or 4 messing about here and there. And… I’m kinda in love. I just hope there’s more people showing up, with more content and such soon :)
I realized how hard Reddit is getting astro turfed by large organizations and I’m glad to be somewhere it’s not yet a problem.
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Wasting my life on Lemmy instead.
The only valid answer!
Yeah I thought about trying to better myself like learn to bake a soufflé, read a book, workout but then I just go to Lemmy
Trying to figure out Lemmy. It’s not easy…
Also, replying to users who keep requesting access to our blacked out sub.
Mostly Lemmy, Mastodon,
actually touching grass after years,and for my less proud time-waster, Discord and Youtube.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
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 I’m 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 spending the time, accidentally absentmindedly clicking on Apollo, seeing the protest posts and then force closing the app. Haha
I had to move bacon reader off my homepage so I’d stop clicking on it.
I’ve worked the whole time. Just avoided checking r/sysadmin and have been checking !sysadmin@lemmy.ml 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!! 🥺
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
Honestly, just taking a break from social media all together. Reddit was my main source of “media” for the past 7 years. I joined Lemmy to hopefully be a replacement. But it’s nice to just have a cleansing every once in a while :)
ooohh very nice. every once in a while ill have a no-media or tech day in a similar nature myself. very refreshing!!
I think you’re going to find a little bit of a sampling bias asking that question here.
oh how so?
Well, Lemmy, of course! Also, discovering new sites at https://cloudhiker.net/explore, some Plex maintenance and even a little bit of baking!
I still opened RedReader by reflex a couple of times, but I closed immediately. So far, I don’t miss reddit at all. I have been pleasantly surprised by how welcoming this community has been, thank you everyone!
Day 4 Reddit-free for me (I deleted all my accounts - one of which was 14+ years old - after the AMA … jfc what a catastrophe!) Exploring the Fediverse when the servers will allow me, made chicken cacciatore for dinner (it was awesome) and now just wandering around lemmy.ml because I can. Life is good…
100% - life is absolutely better when its reddit free.
I keep habitually itching to use Reddit, but I just replaced the Home Screen icon with Mlem and it’s made that easier
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!!
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.
