I got you
- add ebook reader app to phone
- download ebooks
- pretend ebooks are long-form Reddit posts
- become well-read while wasting time
If you can’t read, download picture ebooks instead
I’ve been thinking of deleting my Reddit account but haven’t gone through with it. This post motivated me enough to at least delete my Reddit app (slide for iOS). So many wasted hours I’ve been spending on that app just mindlessly scrolling like a robot.
Now to my next addiction: watching YouTube videos which won’t make me smarter (gaming content) on my phone.
slide (ios) has the best interface among the foss 3rd party apps for reddit. was surprised that it looked different in android so i used infinity there, which isnt as nice.
Added Mlem to the spot where Apollo once lived. Hope it can live up
This is the way.
Do your part by posting. Or doing what redditors do best - repost!!
Same but with Jerboa and reddit is fun
Yeah I did the same with Jerboa a few days ago. I keep clicking it, and it’s actually building the “good” habit of using Lemmy instead of reddit. There’s less content here though, but maybe that’s a blessing in disguise. Filling the “mindless scrolling of the internet” time with something useful should be my actual goal. So having less stuff to browse might help with that.
i need to heal my brain from mindless scrolling
Now we can do it on Lemmy!
Jerboa has been good so far. Somehow the discussions on lemmy feels more engaging than on reddit. Might be because there are no bots regurgiating comments. But the lack of my favourite subreddits have helped my phone addiction 😂 Hopefully this will be rectified soon 😉
Much less hate fueled comments and trolls over here. Hopefully it stays that way. If you looked at Reddit during the blackout most of the remaining content was ‘conservatives’ and hate.
to be honest, I like lemmy. It’s a lot calmer.
While its does feel like reddit 10 years ago, the appeal to me became that reddit always had soemthign new no matter the hour of day. Hope Lemmy can get there.
Yeah but back then the pro was that you could actually lead a productive fucking life off your phone lmao. Now if there’s always something new on Reddit it just leads into habit/addiction
Personally the appeal for me has become the opposite. Because I have to wait for Lemmy to update, I can actually stay off my phone more and do more productive things.
Calmer?
CALMER!
Polymer clay. My first attempts were utter crap but within a week I was making really cool stuff. My last thing was a totoro ornament. Any polymer clay communities?
Gonna take a while for niches to move and artists can be lazy. Non the less I would love to see one.
I’m actually spending more time on lemmy, hacker news, and (gasp) 9gag as well now.
For me Jerboa is now where Infinity for Reddit used to be.
Interact with that weird green stuff on the ground
I still occasionally type re into my browser search than look stupefied at the search bar when nothing shows up.
Can always try replacing it with this TestFlight app Memmy. https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmy/discussions/13
Deleted Reddit and Twitter same day, I’m bored for sure but it’s kind of insane how addicted to information I am. Trying to break it is hard.
Information like food can be good for you or junk. I was always on old.reddit because I tried to stay away from the endless scroll as much as possible. I take walks when I get super bored. I have a ton of hobbies and responsibilities I can work on, the walk helps the bored feeling go away and I get an idea of what I really want to do. 4 days clean off Reddit brotha.
Try an RSS aggregator app like Feedly and add all your favorite topics/sites. I filled mine up with web comics, car blogs and tech stuff. Also been getting into NPR lately, lots of interesting stuff and less of a focus on politics.
Omg I just had a 2005 flashback, right before podcasts took off.
Is Feedlys free version any good or do you recommend paying for it? Don’t know what I think about using an app when an rss feed could be easily read on a plain webpage.
That’s what I did at first. But for me the beauty of reddit isn’t with the post themselves, it’s in the comments.
