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I replaced it with Lemmy, so that's what an abnormal person does.

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It's a breath of fresh air in an otherwise chaotic Internet user interface.

If by normal people you mean the general public, my guess is just Tiktok and social media.

My amazing wife is normie/10, she watches usually TikTok cooking recipes or makeup videos. I'm trash man husbae, so I'm on Lemmy here with you

How the hell would any of us know?

Around me I see people watching the videos that just keep coming. Next video before you even had time to form a thought about the last one. I don’t think you should follow their example.

Why do you have to replace it?

Maybe use it as a way to cut down on screen time.

I have no socials on my phone. I mainly use it to listen to audiobooks/podcasts instead.

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The screen 👉😏👉

I ride the public bus every day, and I can tell you its basically all social media, messaging, YouTube and phone/video calls.

But you don't have to do the same thing everyone else does. You can play digital card games, chess, read a book, or put your phone in your pocket and listen to podcasts or music. And if you're not commuting, you can plug your phone in and do actual stuff.

I feel like any time anyone is using their phones in public they're scrolling Instagram.

If you want to give an appearance of normalcy while maintaining a living soul, just get a Pixelfed account, follow a bunch of photographers, and scroll endlessly.

Normal people? Probably mostly Facebook, Instagram and candy crush. You can just take a look at the top free apps in your app store but I'll give you a spoiler: it's 99% junk.

Okay so I actually checked. The top 3 are Temu (a ripoff shopping app), WhatsApp and Tiktok in my region

Heh, look at you, asking this in Lemmy, as if we're all normal.

Lots of people are on TikTok and Instagram.

I on the other hand stare at the nearest wall.

Wikipedia rabbit holes

The majority are on TikTok, instagram, Facebook, and X.

You know how you scroll through your Instagram feed and then stop when you get to the big checkmark?

Yeah, normal people keep scrolling. For literally an hour or two at a time.

Please define "normal people". ;)

If I ever find a normal person I’ll ask them for you.

After quitting Facebook and Instagram, I spend a lot more time reading books on my phone. I have found two apps to read and listen to free books through my library.

I have Feedly app and a bunch of RSS feeds about tech, world news, board games, video games, robotics, space, and pop culture. It’s great! Sure I get a few duplicate articles from multiple sites covering the same thing but it’s nice little digital newspaper. And if one site keeps publishing stupid shit I can unsubscribe from it and it’s gone from my feed.

Normal people seem to look at a lot of social media, yes. Instagram, tiktok, whatever. Some people also have a lot of group chats.

Some people read. Your library probably offers free ebooks. Comics, too, when I want something even simpler.

I check the weather, use my calendar, listen to podcasts, take notes, use the camera and occasionally browse lemmy while on a toilet like now

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From my observations: Normal people don't look at their phone; they listen to it.

If you're expecting normal people to answer: Do you even know where you are right now? :p

Probably social media like Facebook, Instagram, ... Or video sharing sites like TikTok (yuck!) and YouTube.

I can't claim to represent anyone other than myself. I use an RSS feeder for news, articles, and webcomics. I have some ebooks from the library downloaded. I have been playing an MMO phone game for the last ~year and check on that a couple times a day. Discord. Lemmy has replaced reddit for me but I don't spend as much time on it as I used to on reddit.

I watch stuff on libretube...But I'm not normal.

Porn. Lots and lots of porn.

Dunno about normal, per se. I have adhd and when I'm not forgetting what I was about to do in the time between having the thought and picking up my phone, I am often diving down some rabbit hole. This might be a quick Google search in a definition, or to figure out where I heard a word. For example, a friend recently mentioned acid reflux. So my brain thought "GERD?", "GERDY??", "THE HERDY GERDY?!?" which led me to Wikipedia, then to a handful of rather cool videos on Youtube of people playing the instrument.

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My point being: Use it as a helpful miscellaneous tool. Like a physical widget that can go along with near any activity.

I like reading webcomics

Probably* TikTok or some other stupid shit.

I'll second the idea that more than a few minutes of tiktok, YouTube shorts or Instagram reels is debilitating.

I look at lemmy or mastodon but I am very much less than normal.

i read random wikipedia articles

I do a lot of podcasts and play pokemon on my phone. Emulators are amazing

A duck!

If you really want to detox, then put the phone down. Order some magazines, read some books, talk to some people. I did that for 6 months when I was completely overwhelmed and my entire psyche changed. But I eventually craved the interaction, so here I am.

I'm one of those psychos who flash custom roms just because I can, so that is a big time consuming activity I have with my phone, other than that I usually use Sync for Lemmy, Sync for Reddit, Pocket Casts, Spotify, Feeder/Feedly and Firefox Beta, among other apps.