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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 uninstalled all my Reddit related apps just so I wouldn't open them out of reflex. I think this blackout is gonna be permanent for me chief
I joined about a week and a half ago, spent maybe an hour surfing before I made an account. After getting Jerboa set up I deleted RIF(π«‘π) and put Jerboa in it's place on my home screen.
Well, looking if this lemmy thing is a good replacement ;) So far seems this is the way to go!
Especially with Jerboa already in place, its IMO a good switch.
The one thing that worries me is all that useful info trapped on Reddit, if Lemmy data expires then that has a long term cost/loss which is sad.
I visited Facebook.. It wasn't nice.
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.
Iβm spending the time, accidentally absentmindedly clicking on Apollo, seeing the protest posts and then force closing the app. Haha
I keep habitually itching to use Reddit, but I just replaced the Home Screen icon with Mlem and itβs made that easier
Don't hate me but I'm still checking on on Boost. Many of the tiny communities I like are not here yet but I'm subtlety suggesting they should expand their horizons in this direction.
I figure the protest doesn't much matter Reddit isn't going to back down they are a private company still and not subject to the will of Investors. As long as we get out before the try to go public it will foil their plans. I'd like to delete my account there soon
I noticed the weak point of this protest was the alternatives options where not made clear (or maybe suggestions got supressed) finding Lemmy took me some time and I suspect that communities and users remaining on reddit may not be aware of it.
Wasting my life on Lemmy instead.
The only valid answer!
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
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 :)
Trying to figure out Lemmy. It's not easy...
Also, replying to users who keep requesting access to our blacked out sub.
Trying to boost engagement on here and on Mastodon.
And playing LOTRO
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.
I think you're going to find a little bit of a sampling bias asking that question here.
I keep catching myself starting (but so far never finishing) to type "reddit.com" into my address bar. Lol.
But more to your point, I've done a little more lately on side coding and learning projects while returning to some old favorite sites like Hacker News, Slashdot, and Hackaday. And I've found some new ones like Raddle and, well, Lemmy.
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 also removed reddit from my home screen to give the Fediverse a genuine shot. Most places are pretty barren - but there is effort more or less all around trying to produce content.
Memes are pretty active but focused almost exclusively on reddit blackout and the capacity to engage over memes isn't big. World News isn't bad. And board games is spooling up as well. This however has been the most active slice I've visited so far; still mostly about the reddit blackout but there are other questions too. Aww is running and even NSFW slices are starting to get a trickle of original content.
Watching some videos and browsing Mlem. Maybe actually reading articles here and there I found on news sites myself.
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!!
Mostly Lemmy, Mastodon, ~~actually touching grass after years,~~ and for my less proud time-waster, Discord and Youtube.
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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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.
Itβs been raining in my historically rarely rainy city for the past two weeks and all I want to do is garden. My poor basil is just yellowing from how much water it has gotten and how little sun.
Definitely agree on not going back, I think Iβm only missing 1 or 2 niche communities that havenβt migrated yet but Iβm still hopeful
I'm spending it on Lemmy.
I also deleted my rif app so I don't accidentally open it.
So far I've had a pretty darn good experience. It scratches the same itch. But in other ways it's better than Reddit - there's no chance of karma whoring here as there's no real karma system. Upvotes and downvotes are merely tools for boosting visibility and don't have any additional meaning.
Then again, the jerboa app could use more polish and qol updates and additional features, really the Lemmyverse is still early days, like a new house with no furnishings and no front garden, it's bare it's not comfortable yet, but it's all shiny and unmolested. I'm sure things will get better over time.
The censorship is a pain though, like your comment was auto-censored for "karma x".
I think they should just ban spammers and scammers and let the votes decide the rest.
Huh, didn't know about the censorship. I guess that's dependent on the server you are on?
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.
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 :)
Accidentally opened Apollo a few times just out of muscular memory and habit. Immediately closed each time. I decided to move the app of the way so it wonβt happen again, and put the beta for mlem in its place.
Otherwise, I had a full day of work - then went out with the wife for a nice dinner with drinks. Weβre gonna watch the Nuggets/Heat game in a bit.
So⦠pretty much a normal day. But with less Reddit.
This sounds oddly familiar π€
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!! 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 went a bit on reddit and then setup this instance getting it to work today.