I stopped using reddit when Apollo went down, and 2-3 hours of scrolling and active posting in some niche subs turned into ~30 mins of Lemmy per day, which I find much more healthy.

I didn’t start doing yoga, painting, or a side business, just feel much better having cut back the last big pillar of my social media addiction.

So thanks Steve!

(If it’s not too much to ask, please take a look at how you could improve instagram, you could save another 15 minute of my day)

  • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    1 year ago

    I gave up on facebook, twitter and instagram years ago, but just because I did of course doesn’t mean everyone else did. I ended up replacing them with nothing… more reddit, I suppose, but it doesn’t fulfill the precise same purposes.

    It’s heartening that finally significant amounts of people are moving to alternatives because the alternatives do exist now. When people were ticked off with reddit in the past, your choice was pretty much… fuck off, i guess. Same for Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and IG. At least there are good alternatives to Twitter and Reddit now. They don’t need to be huge, merely big enough.

    • mrmanagerA
      9·
      1 year ago

      Absolutely. And I hope Lemmy stays rather small actually… Too big is not good since it brings corporate interests in monetizing the entire thing. And then we are back to having ads and data mining and not being allowed to use certain words again like on reddit or other big tech sites.