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)

  • Retiring@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Curing instagram addiction is easy. Just unfollow everyone you don’t know in person. Cut my instagram time from ~2h/day to 5 minutes every other day

  • SpaceMonk@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    For real. I miss the old Reddit. I recently took a digital walk down memory lane and found my first reddit link from 2007!

    Good times. I miss Aaron Swartz too. Knowledge is power and he sacrificed himself for freeing knowledge.

    Reddit to me is the digital Kowloon Walled City. Crazy place where you can find anything but also needs to be demolished.

  • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    1 year ago

    I agree! I’ve been wasting time on reddit since 2008 or so, to the point that now and then I’d block it on my router to avoid going there from habit. Not all bad of course, but it’s been increasingly futile and counterproductive in the past few years.

    I’ve never used third party apps, but I stopped going there when it became clear the management has zero respect for the userbase.

    • mrmanager@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      The thing is, literally all big tech companies also have zero respect for their userbase but people keep using Google, Meta, Insta and all those things.

      I think us geeks have started to move away from it more and more, but the majority couldn’t care less.

      • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        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.