Whatcha up to this blackout eve? How are you spending it? Anything you’ve made more time for? Do any of you feel antsy? Lmk! :)
Wasting my life on Lemmy instead.
The only valid answer!
Yeah I thought about trying to better myself like learn to bake a soufflé, read a book, workout but then I just go to Lemmy
I think you’re going to find a little bit of a sampling bias asking that question here.
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.
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 went a bit on reddit and then setup this instance getting it to work today.
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 won’t 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. We’re gonna watch the Nuggets/Heat game in a bit.
So… pretty much a normal day. But with less Reddit.
In the times I’d usually be scrolling reddit, I’ve been opening the rif app, remembering I’m doing that anymore, then opening Lemmy. Each time I get to know Lemmy a bit more, find a new cub to subscribe to, or answer an ask lemmy question.
I don’t want to delete the rif app until it stops working though, at which point I’ll naturally leave reddit, cos I never use it on desktop and I’m not downloading the mess of an official app.
Trying to boost engagement on here and on Mastodon.
And playing LOTRO
It’s a little strange not having reddit to browse but it’s been supplemented decently by Lemmy thanks especially to Jerboa (based off of the client I used for reddit: Boost, which is nice).
Trying to figure out Lemmy. It’s not easy…
Also, replying to users who keep requesting access to our blacked out sub.
I keep habitually itching to use Reddit, but I just replaced the Home Screen icon with Mlem and it’s made that easier
I’m spending the time, accidentally absentmindedly clicking on Apollo, seeing the protest posts and then force closing the app. Haha
I had to move bacon reader off my homepage so I’d stop clicking on it.
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.
I think you have to put another @ before the link or it’s treated like an email address? Sorry I’m not sure, we’re all new to this
aww puppyyy!! 🥺
Yes! Little Pembroke Welsh Corgi x Chihuahua mix. He’s a cute little bugger!
I’m currently banned anyways. And I don’t really miss it, to be honest.
What caused you to be banned?
I made a comment in a not serious subreddit about how I’d 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.
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.