The cycle of the day...

Yeah, same here. Lemmy sort of scratches the itch, but it's a big itch.

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.

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

I open Reddit way too often. Today I replaced my Reddit shortcut with Lemmy. Jerboa needs some refining but it'll do for now. Let's give it a go!

Went to go get some errands done, and come back to find I have more Lemmy upvotes than I had karma in the last 10 years lol.

Jerboa (mobile app for Lemmy) is really great so far! Feels basically the same to me as Boost was. The sign in process is a little odd (top left hamburger menu, accounts, add account).

I'm staying here, I'm done with Reddit.

Yeah I wish people would stop posting on Lemmy about Reddit and start posting something interesting instead

I purposefully moved RIF off of my home screen. My stupid muscle memory kept tapping it every time my idle brain opened the phone. Trying out Jerboa as an app for lemmy at the moment.

I rode my bike and did the dishes lol

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.

I thought I was addicted to Reddit, but compared to some of you I was totally fine all along! Hurrah!

I replaced the reddit app shortcut on my phone with the Jerboa for Lemmy so that when, through sheer muscle memory, I try to open Reddit I open Lemmy instead.

Honestly, I hope I spend less time on Lemmy because I was on Reddit too damn much. Maybe this is exactly what I needed to break an unhealthy habit.

I've gotten more done today than I have in a long time. And spent plenty of time in the Fediverse too. I'm loving this so far.

At this point Ive completely replaced my addiction to reddit with one to lemmy

Find something interesting to do with all this spare time.
Run into an issue.
Google it.
Click on the only good quality result.
It's a blacked out Reddit link.

I kept doing this and finally just moved the Jerboa for Lemmy app to where I had RIF and it's been working great.

I am getting more replies here and things feel overall more active than what I have seen on reddit in years. The fire has brought the engagement out in people and its a blast.

If you lack something to post, shitpost, for the cause.

That were first two days here, but now I'm invested, people started to share more and suddenly i catch myself scrolling Lemmy for 15 minutes instead of working

I doctored my bookmarks to exclude Reddit. On my phone I replaced it was Jerboa, which I was very impressed with as an alpha app. It's already better than Reddit's official app. I'm very guilty of doing the same like you. Launch up reddit then correct myself. I'm comitted to the move away.

I suppose I might just be a crazy person, but this seems as good a place to ask as any.

Any reason my upvotes (& downvotes for that matter) don't seem to stick? Just made an account and was scrolling thru this thread, upvoted some comments. And within like 2 seconds, the blue upvote highlight disappeared and the comment score went back to what it was before I had interacted. Same with downvotes.

Imma try it on desktop soon.

I’ve found refuge in my kindle. I break the cycle by forcing myself to read books (trashy sci-fi novels mostly) But I DO want something to keep abreast of what’s going on further from my brain, and Lemmy has almost enough content to get a relatively neutral feed of information. Won’t take much to cross the watershed for me…

Number one reason why I froze the Sync for Reddit app (with all the pain in my heart because I fucking love that app).

I got the hang of lemmy. Very simple. I've deleted all instances of reddit on my phone and won't use it on desktop. I love this site

I deleted Boost for Reddit (damn I'll miss that app) so I don't have the temptation. I also replaced my Reddit shortcut for the Reddark page and added a Fediverse folder. Is exciting to see this place grow!

I used reddit for exactly two things, memes and news. Lemmy has become my home for memes, and I downloaded a separate link aggregator for news. And with those two satisfied, I have no issues leaving behind reddit. It was just handy to have an all in one, and lemmy could definitely get there.

i just replaced the Reddick icon with lemmy

Seems we share a braincell..

Lemmy has replaced everything reddit was for me, so I just deleted the app

I've done the same thing, but I think I'm finally used to not opening RiF. I just miss a few bigger communities, but otherwise Lemmy has been a fine alternative. Hopefully it continues to grow!

I just deleted reddit app and redreader since my sub is participating in the black out. Well be in here full time. I just hope Kenny doesn't become that place where everyone came over then officially moved to reddit app. This place is growing and give it some time and it will be bigger then reddit

I knew I'd do the same thing, so I removed the shortcut to Reddit on my phone and replaced it with Jerboa.

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.

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.

I uninstall the app yesterday , I feel sad that reddit has becoming this shitty app it was a great experience since I join like 4 years ago butthanksg god we have lemmy now!

biggest headache for me is waiting for lemmy to load! nothing more aggravating than drip feed internet

oh and for some reason it works on my desktop in safari but not my laptop in safari. whattt

I swore to myself I wouldn't go there during the blackout, and that I would use that time to get better acquainted with Lemmy, kbin and squabbles.

But fuck if I'm not dying to go there and see what's happening. If the Revenge of the Admins has already begun or what.

I believe in you. We can do it.

I swear I've opened Reddit at least 4 times just out of habit before remembering.

Isn't the whole Reddit outage only for a couple days?

Gosh when Apollo goes away I'm not gonna know what to do with my phone anymore, might as well just toss it away

i thought i was the only one doing that

I removed RIF from my home screen and put tildes and Lemmy on there instead.

I deleted the official Reddit app and have only gone to r/tildes to check to see if they're offering invites again. I do hope to see a community to match learnprogramming and learnpython show up here.

also this https://lemmy.world/post/79354

I moved my Apollo icon to a different location, and it helped the first couple times. But now… I’ve quickly replaced the habit with loading up Lemmy in my browser, haha

I keep searching for it on my phone before realising I deleted the app 🙃

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

For real... Its hard to break the habit of typing in Reddit into the search bar.

I deleted the app last week so I wouldn’t accidentally visit there.

Same, but I don't actually open reddit, I just swipe away all the notifications for it

I moved my Apollo icon off the home page so I would quit accidentally click it out of habit.

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I set my app timeout to zero

Just delete it from your phone

So, I am not the only one doing this. Lol