Whatcha up to this blackout eve? How are you spending it? Anything you’ve made more time for? Do any of you feel antsy? Lmk! :)
Wasting my life on Lemmy instead.
The only valid answer!
Yeah I thought about trying to better myself like learn to bake a soufflé, read a book, workout but then I just go to Lemmy
I feel like Reddit is a big basket of candy and goodies and I’m just sitting here staring at it telling myself not to touch. I’ve spent the time away by listening to podcasts and spending more time outside gardening and reading actual books and not a screen. It’s really rewarding and freeing, but I miss interacting with a community so I’m glad to have been directed to Lemmy.
Uninstall Reddit so you’re not tempted
I think you’re going to find a little bit of a sampling bias asking that question here.
Trying to figure out Lemmy. It’s not easy…
Also, replying to users who keep requesting access to our blacked out sub.
Mostly Lemmy, Mastodon,
actually touching grass after years,and for my less proud time-waster, Discord and Youtube.I spent it hunting down a reddit alternative and browsing on lemmy.
I’m not going back. Reddit will go downhill gradually as it tries to squeeze out value at the expense of the community, and that’s not something I’m going to support it any way.
I realized how hard Reddit is getting astro turfed by large organizations and I’m glad to be somewhere it’s not yet a problem.
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This is day 2 for me on Lemmy, plus a bit of time for the previous 3 or 4 messing about here and there. And… I’m kinda in love. I just hope there’s more people showing up, with more content and such soon :)
I’m spending the time, accidentally absentmindedly clicking on Apollo, seeing the protest posts and then force closing the app. Haha
I had to move bacon reader off my homepage so I’d stop clicking on it.
Gardening. The weather is starting to warm up to summer temps so I have been going at it. Honestly, I’m not missing Reddit all that much and I don’t see myself using it much in the future regardless of what they end up doing.
It’s been raining in my historically rarely rainy city for the past two weeks and all I want to do is garden. My poor basil is just yellowing from how much water it has gotten and how little sun.
Definitely agree on not going back, I think I’m only missing 1 or 2 niche communities that haven’t migrated yet but I’m still hopeful
I migrated over to Lemmy and am learning more about that. As crazy as it sounds, I have cut my screen time in half since the blackout. I think this has shown me I’m on technology a bit too much and I need to go outside more and be more productive with my day.
Same, my bathroom time has easily halfed lol. But seriously, I really like the idea of the Fediverse, if I understand it right. Like, each ‘sub-reddit’ is it’s own service, distributed from each other. Rather than Reddit which is centralized. I absolutely miss certain things about Reddit, /r/bestof was my longest subscribed sub. I don’t think I’ll be going back unless/u/Spez does A LOT of back tracking and apologizing.
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I’m sure some will go back when the blackout ends, but I’m here to stay. Even if Spez apologies and backtracks, I wouldn’t go back. They showed us who they really are and what they are going after. I’m not going to help them by giving them my data. I’d rather invest time, effort, and energy to this decentralized thing…as soon as I understand it more.
I will miss Reddit, but even if you go back it won’t be the same.
Well, looking if this lemmy thing is a good replacement ;) So far seems this is the way to go!
Especially with Jerboa already in place, its IMO a good switch.
The one thing that worries me is all that useful info trapped on Reddit, if Lemmy data expires then that has a long term cost/loss which is sad.
Playing disturbing amounts of Factorio. Unfortunately a vast chunk of Factorio knowledge is on Reddit so I keep accidentally navigating there, fortunately the Factorio sub is dark so I can wander off again quickly.
My man
Not a man. Love your username though, as luck would have it my most recent endeavor was getting iron plates onto my new train network. Finally migrating from bootstrap to real base
Anyone can be my man, regardless of gender.
The factory must grow.
Deleted my reddit account on night’s eve to the blackout and I’ve gotten the rss feeds of the subs that are too niche to lose track of. Out of that, Reddit is absolutely dead for me.
I keep habitually itching to use Reddit, but I just replaced the Home Screen icon with Mlem and it’s made that easier
Don’t hate me but I’m still checking on on Boost. Many of the tiny communities I like are not here yet but I’m subtlety suggesting they should expand their horizons in this direction.
I figure the protest doesn’t much matter Reddit isn’t going to back down they are a private company still and not subject to the will of Investors. As long as we get out before the try to go public it will foil their plans. I’d like to delete my account there soon
I noticed the weak point of this protest was the alternatives options where not made clear (or maybe suggestions got supressed) finding Lemmy took me some time and I suspect that communities and users remaining on reddit may not be aware of it.
Watching some videos and browsing Mlem. Maybe actually reading articles here and there I found on news sites myself.
Spent the day installing light switches that I’ve had sitting in the garage for a year. Pruned some shrubs, burned some leaves, raked some gravel, touched grass, etc. Almost never posted on Reddit. Full time lurker. Enjoying contributing to Lemmy just for the sakes of user interaction :) Let’s stoke the fire!!
