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What do you do with all the free time you got once you stopped using reddit?
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this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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Not enought content here to replace all that time saved IMO. At my worst I was browsing Reddit 6+ hours a day. Here, I can't even go 2 hours without seeing the same content..
None of this is a criticism against Lemmy btw
I get what you mean. But I just spread my net wider. Give more communities a chance, and unsubscribe from the ones that aren't what I'm looking for. It's frustrating, but it will improve. And it's better than dealing with reddit.
Oh I agree 100% but there are definitely aspects of Reddit that just aren't replaceable with Lemmy. Lemmy has almost no car communities (besides FuckCars), which is a hobby that takes up a lot of my time. I've replaced the time I spent on Reddit car subs with /o/ and other forums.
As for my other interests, though, I think Lemmy is definitely better for my mental health. Nobody needs a constant stream of new memes to access whenever they want. I was developing a serious case of brainrot mindlessly scrolling when I still used Reddit.
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For me it's actually a good thing to not have the almost infinite stream of content that reddit had because it stops me from doomscrolling for hours on end and leads me to actually doing something
I get that way a month ago. And yeah, I quickly run into duplicate content, but over the last couple weeks the duplicate content has been strongly peppered with new content that is highly engaging. With less churn, I find that I spend more time commenting as well.
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I admin a lemmy instance, so I have less time now than I did when I used Reddit
Ditto, though the maintenance has really gone down since the early days of the migration. Now I basically just restart the docker container twice a week to bandaid Lemmy's memory leak and that's it.
I don't have a large enough userbase to really worry about super active moderation so it's really not bad now.
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My yard looks nicer. My dog gets 2-3 walks a day instead of 1-2. Also porn.
What porn does he like?
Doggy and zoophilia
Why, I spent it maintaining my Lemmy instance of course.
Reading more books during breaks at work! It's easier to focus on reading books when I don't have reddit on my phone. I like Lemmy, but I mostly use it for 15min at a time. Since I joined Lemmy/stopped using reddit mobile, I've read 5 books! :)
For real? Taking care of my mental health. I was in a very bad spot of my life earlier this year. I lost my best friend who also happened to be my business partner, he died in March.
It was a shock, we both founded a small NPO together, he was behind all the strategy, I was more into communication. We thought he would recover from his cancer, but he caught covid while his immune system was at its weakest. He lost that battle.
I immediately tried to find my next professional step, insisting that I had to find a way to promote social economy locally, as that's what we wanted to do together.
All this pressure on myself by myself, plus the state of the world, neverending flow of bad news, me losing faith in mostly everything and becoming extra cynical, I ended up flirting with a major burnout.
Fortunately, I asked for help when it was still time to act, and the reddit api scandal happened at about the same time. Leaving reddit was one of the first step towards recovery. All the subreddits were basically optimized for doomscrolling, which was super toxic for the state of mind I was in.
I just started to use lemmy last week since I found that Sync for Lemmy was available. And I only subscribed to things that aren't too toxic. I'm now on medication to avoid depression. It's been 3 weeks and it's already much better.
I don't think I'll be browsing Lemmy as much as I was browsing reddit.
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Lemmy, duh.
But also more reading and doing sudokus
All my Reddit time was diverted to here, lol
BG3
I wonder how many new dnd players will there be because of baldur's gate. it's a shame that you can't really track that
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I started using Lemmy... That's why I'm here
Now I check both Lemmy and (although less than before) Reddit, so I have even less free time
Browsing Lemmy and kbin. There's lots of interesting stuff when you sort by new. Today's unexpected find was banjo music with duck sounds.
Once in a while, I try my hand at translating.
Is this a real question?
I spent 3 hours on Lemmy yesterday.
Lemmy was a 1 to 1 time sink replacement for Reddit for me so not a lot has changed!
I replaced 60% of it with Lemmy and the rest with YouTube
BG3
Installed stable diffusion to create pictures of... things.
It's badgers isn't it?
I went all out and sold my PS5, bought a guitar and have been teaching myself how to play. I feel awkward because I didnβt just move to Lenny but now I can play dope ass riffs.
Lemmy. I'm actually using it more than I used to use Reddit. But I'm also reading more now, so I think I have more free time in general
I started taking better care of my mental health and have taken up reading
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I went back to going to my news instead of having news fed to me.
Lemmy, and occasionally getting actual work done.
Youβre posting on it.
Touch grass and go to college
use lemmy and mastodon
Browse tumblr. Haven't found my niche yet on lemmy. I'm also learning a new language on Duolingo and am halfway through Ulysses!
Facing all my issues.
Creat porn ...
Post comments on Lemmy!
Just kidding.
I use lemmy obviously. But I've started reading books again rather than doomscrolling until I fall asleep at night, and also more gaming and socialising in general.
I think it was a crutch for my depression.
been drawing more. End up reading up on things more like I use to be someone who did a lot of wikipedia rabbit holing and now I'm doing that again.
More reading: books, magazines, newspapers. Also trying to get more exercise.
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Played more video games, painted a bit more, started watching Babylon 5. It was worth it.
Lemmy and Firefish, and I just started reading a lot more. Books are excellent, the Libby app on my phone is always full of them.
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