I never liked Reddit. I used to only use it for an hour or less a day to follow tech and IT communities.
But now, after the blackout, I can’t leave Lemmy. I’m on it about 5-6 hours a day to find communities, read news about Reddit blackout and Lemmy’s future. I think going back to Reddit will be good for me. It will take less of my time, especially after a lot of people quit Reddit.
Edit: Thank you for your nice answers and advice. I think all the good people of Reddit are here at Lemmy and kbin.
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No Reddit!… (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Do what makes you happy.
5-6 hours seems excessive… If you have other issues that are the root cause, maybe deal with those first, but if it’s a self-control issue (which it was for me sometimes) there are great browser plugins to block certain sites after a certain amount of time. I use LeechBlock for firefox and after my “self allotted time” it locks down reddit and lemmy for me so I can’t access it any more. There are similar plug ins for other browsers, I can really recommend it!
Ps: But to answer your original question, from an ideological standpoint, definitely stay on lemmy.
Better stay here. Reddit is already being Twitter and Digged out
I’ll admit, I did it, I just posted on Reddit. Though to be fair, I joined r/pics’ Sexy John Oliver protest, and put this up.
Unfortunately I also had to visit reddit…to upvote your post and plug kbin.
You know, with Reddit, I didn’t even have an account. Just browsing for a bit and done. Now look at me. Account made, leaving comments. What’s next? Making posts?
Don’t leave us :( why don’t you love us? i am in tears
If you do this, how can I leave you? :)
Lol on a serious note though, if it takes too much of your time, you might want to consider some additional activities for spending your time :) your mental health is much more important than Lemmy ^
Ok I think this is a good joke post
This wasn’t a joke. I’m serious about my time. I don’t want to spend my time on social media. I don’t even have an Instagram or Twitter account. Lemmy shouldn’t be what I spend my time on. I wasn’t serious about going back to Reddit, by the way. I don’t like big companies like most of us do. I think the novelty of Lemmy and the blackout thing made me waste my time. I’ll be on Lemmy less from now on, I can do that. Thank you to everyone who responded or gave advice.
I did not realize, sorry! I really thought it was a joke. However, I get what you are saying. I hope you get a hold of your time!
6 hours a day just staring at a screen doing nothing? Sounds like you have other issues. Get a better hobby.
sounds like my day job
Aw man, day jobs are the worst
I think the fact you use it more than you would expect is expectable with the fact it’s new to you and the blackout is still going for half of the subreddits, looking at the stream - that’s captivating. Also Reddit already has estabilished communities while here is the Wild West, revolution is… revolving. We’re here for it. But never think you’re missing out, whether you’ll spend here 5 minutes or hours. In the end does it really matter you know what Reddit CEO said this morning? And this platform is decentralised and open source, whatever wouldn’t happen there will always be an instance. If you feel too distracted by this place (don’t blame you, I’ve just joined and I’m like wow) and you feel that it will be better for you, feel free to look at Reddit …but maybe actually take a break from both. while exciting, social media can be a bit stressful and if you feel like you could be doing something productive, dedicate your time to that. if you just want to waste your time a bit, maybe try sketching or a little code - it feels good to create something
This is the shitposting I live for
Go straight to github. Use github as your main social media, for shits and giggles. You’ll come out a better man(source: I tried it)
I suppose each to their own, but I wasn’t an intensely committed redditor outside a few select communities, and that mostly recently. I mostly lurked and used the site to aggregate news and gather a rough idea of the major zeitgeist reactions. I may continue to do that occasionally - like I occasionally do with facebook these days.
I can’t see myself really wanting to comment on the selected forums I was participating on - and have found myself reading posts, thinking of a response, and consciously choosing not to post because I just don’t want to generate content for reddit any longer, even in my limited capacity.
I’ve decided I won’t be installing the mobile app. Once Sync is gone, I will just use Lemmy on mobile for sure.
As for desktop, I will probably use both. My reddit usage will go down for sure and Lemmy will go up as it grows.
This is what I would have done had I not been permabanned for shitting on Spez and the admins.
I mean I’m not gonna tell you what you can or cannot do, but if you wanna support the protests, you should use an ad blocker when using reddit, that way they can’t get ad revenue.
If social media addiction is the problem, you might wanna go outside.
Is that also the case with third party apps like Apollo? I mean, at least until the 30th.
For the record, the last time I closed the Apollo app was on Sunday night, and haven’t gone back since, so I’m asking on behalf of others who might feel the temptation to go there again.
