Added Mlem to the spot where Apollo once lived. Hope it can live up
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.
This is the way.
Writing from mlem now :D. Thanks for the tip
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
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.
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.
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.
Interact with that weird green stuff on the ground
there are bugs in it
In solidarity with those post I deleted RIF from my phone. This is my home now.
Can always try replacing it with this TestFlight app Memmy. https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmy/discussions/13
For me Jerboa is now where Infinity for Reddit used to be.
Using Jeroba instead of Baconreader, but yep…
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 😉
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.
Would you care to give Mastodon a try now?
