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.

Trying to figure out Lemmy. It’s not easy…

Also, replying to users who keep requesting access to our blacked out sub.

I think you’re going to find a little bit of a sampling bias asking that question here.

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 :)

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.

Wasting my life on Lemmy instead.

I visited Facebook… It wasn’t nice.

I keep habitually itching to use Reddit, but I just replaced the Home Screen icon with Mlem and it’s 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.

Trying to boost engagement on here and on Mastodon.

And playing LOTRO

Mostly Lemmy, Mastodon, actually touching grass after years, and for my less proud time-waster, Discord and Youtube.

I’m spending the time, accidentally absentmindedly clicking on Apollo, seeing the protest posts and then force closing the app. Haha

Gardening. The weather is starting to warm up to summer temps so I have been going at it. Honestly, I’m not missing Reddit all that much and I don’t see myself using it much in the future regardless of what they end up doing.

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!

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.