- Get bored.
- Open Reddit.
- Remember I’m not using reddit today.
- Open Lemmy.
- Go do something else.
- Go to number 1.
I kept doing this and finally just moved the Jerboa for Lemmy app to where I had RIF and it’s been working great.
Jerboas a really nice app. Very customizable like RIF
This did the trick for me as well
That’s what I did too. It’s not quite the same. But muscle memory doesn’t betray me at least.
Yeah I wish people would stop posting on Lemmy about Reddit and start posting something interesting instead
That will probably take a while. The only reason we’re here is because of reddit and spez being a greedy pigboy, so naturally that’s gonna be a topic of discussion for a while.
Once this place has a chance to build up a bit of an identity, I suspect that’ll go away.
I think that major subreedits also have a place on lemmy helps getting everything closer to the old normal
As the other community said, right now, we’re just here because of spez being an asshole. Let this situation end and it’ll normalize
It’s gonna be like this until the blackout is over. eventually we will move on from reddit
all AI on this instance, we keep the reddit stuff in meta.
I ditched Reddit a few weeks ago for other reasons (I am going full FOSS/decentralised services). My Reddit account was 11 years old, I don’t miss it at all.
It’s usually difficult for me to break habits, but right now I’m motivated by rage and contempt, which is making it a lot easier. And the fediverse is like a methadone drip to come down from the heroin-like addictiveness of endless information.
Tip: instead of opening reddit, just search “reddit” and read all the tech news articles shitting on Steve Huffman in diplomatic ways. It’s very satisfying.
ive been spending anywhere from 1-4 hours a day on reddit for the past…13 years? probably the most ingrained habit i have. Broke that habit as of two days ago. Weirdly enough, its not even that difficult. Its like i just understood that its time to move on, like a breaking point in a toxic relationship.
Only downside so far is having nothing to do during public transit. Not enough hobby specific discussion here yet, everyone keeps babbling about leaving reddit, like i am right now… xd
Find a community that you like here and create post and talk. Only way around reddit for now. Give it a week and it will die down
The blackout is over after tonight, so I guess we’ll see how things go then. I left because rif is shutting down on the 30th, so I figured I might as well cut the cord now. I deleted the app when the first sub I subbed to went dark, and I haven’t looked back. Today is my third full day without it. I haven’t been on Lemmy as much, which is definitely a good thing, lol, but I’m really enjoying it so far. The community seems much more conversational and less offensive. I don’t get offended easily, but when people do it just for the sake of being offensive, I don’t like it, and reddit was full of those people.
Most of the redditors only use reddit. To get news, memes, communicate, QnA, everything. That’s the reason this protest isn’t that effective. People are still gonna browse now and then and give them the sweet ad money, because people literally have nothing else to do.
lt would be a lot harder to say goodbye if they cared about having us.
I moved my Apollo icon off the home page so I would quit accidentally click it out of habit.
So, I am not the only one doing this. Lol
I swear I’ve opened Reddit at least 4 times just out of habit before remembering.
I had to go and delete the app to stop me opening it!
Same 😄
Yeah I opened Reddit once just to see what it looked like today, then uninstalled the app.
At this point Ive completely replaced my addiction to reddit with one to lemmy
I opened it twice today and was met with the ‘Reddit is killing Third-Party Applications’ and remembered I need to keep sticking it to the man.
Same here. It is muscle memory still.
Very much this. I’ve got an almost automatic habit of opening reddit when I’m bored and don’t have much to do. After a couple of times of seeing that message, I’ve been searching for the lemmy counterparts for my favourite subs. Turns out a lot of them are getting some steam!
Yeah, I’m surprised at how many I’m finding, and how many are already seeing activity.
And if you don’t see activity…Maybe think about creating one!
Same. I just joined like >12h ago, and already there is some activity in channels, that I couldn’t find any discussion on a few hours ago.
I’m starting to use the word “sublems” instead of “channels” or “communities”. Maybe it will catch on.
Sublemmy?
Sublems is an absolutely fantastic word that I am now adopting! E.g. “Hopefully soon Jerboa handles sublem links better in comments. That’s something I loved about Relay”
I removed the app from my home screen and that made things easier.
I replaced it with Jerboa. Muscle memory will help :P
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Just realized how many users I’ve tagged to remember encounters with on Boost. Good and bad, helped me steer clear of a few trolls.
Will have to ask for that functionality from Jerb. Highly key.
I believe in you. We can do it.
Lemmy has replaced everything reddit was for me, so I just deleted the app
I anticipated this and deleted my (3rd party) app icon on the 11th. Just migrated here today. This definitely fills the void for me. I’ll only miss a select few subreddits.
Same, RIF will be dead soon once the API changes take effect. Might as well rip the bandaid off now.
I’m actually doing my homework on time for once… Maybe I should go play minecraft or something so I don’t raise the expectations
