I find i’m doing more activities in the real world, sitting with my thoughts, and not constantly needing content to fill the void (as much)

thanks spez

  • Fantomas@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    I joined Lemmy and immediately felt out of place and a little lost.

    Anyway, I’ve been here a month and, to make sure I fit in, I’ve installed Linux and joined the communist party.

      • Fantomas@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        None of my videogames work anymore but on the bright side, I now realise they are just an opiate of the masses employed by the bourgeoisie to stop me from seizing the means of production.

        Boots quick though.

        • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          0·
          2 years ago

          I don’t know about you, but I struggle with finding games that don’t work on linux these days. It’s mainly just a subset of online games with anti-cheat. When I buy new games I don’t even think about it these days, I just assume they will work.

        • wozomo@lemmy.world
          0·
          2 years ago

          You probably already have, but if you’ve not yet check out Wine and Proton, I’ve seen numerous guides on setting up a Linux gaming rig that runs Windows games.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    I doom scroll far less.

    I comment more and have better discussion.

    I feel more at home, but I was always on the geeky subreddits with a FOSS bent anyway.

    • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      I doom scroll far less. I comment more and have better discussion.

      Same here. I had like a single-digit comment count on Reddit because it seemed like anything I had to say was either chucked straight into the garbage bin of buried threads that never took off, or lost in a sea of thousands of similar comments. I’ve posted more here in a few weeks than 10+ years on Reddit. It feels like there is at least ROOM for conversations here instead of just bickering or meme comment chains.

  • Shikadi@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    2 years ago

    Things have actually gotten worse for me. With how crappy Reddit has been over the last few years in terms of how engaging my feed is, I’ve been spending less time on it naturally. Now on Lemmy I find myself addicted again, spending 3 hours in a row some days, after having already used it throughout the day. I’m thinking about giving up Lemmy and Reddit all together, wondering if my comments are even valuable to society and what not. I think maybe I’d be happier without either. Not saying you would be, or that others shouldn’t be on Lemmy, just that I personally struggle with it and it interferes with my life sometimes.

    • Merulox@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      This. Many people feel good about themselves for using lemmy, but not using big tech software doesn’t mean you’re doing better than before.

      Social media remains social media and still is a huge time waster and a detriment to your attention span

      Though I try to be more lenient on this view because not long ago I was reminded of the benefits of moderate social media use.

  • Jackthelad@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    Well, it hasn’t improved my life in any way because it’s just a website I’ve stopped using.

    But most of the threads on Reddit degenerated into shitslinging and just general unpleasantness. I’ve not come across any of that here (yet) and it is refreshing. Not to mention the lack of ads and algorithms pushing stuff at me is like the old days.

  • Mewtwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    0·
    2 years ago

    I’m spending more time with my hobby, building Gunpla/plamo. Browsing less Internet, watching anime that I’ve been wanting to watch (DBZ Super and Gundam). I feel less informed about the world, which is oddly less stressful.

  • myslsl@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    I’ve interacted with communities here for some of my interests that I hadn’t really interacted much with on reddit due to my primary interests being more niche and having a slower rate of content generation.

    It’s kind of good and kind of bad though. Some communities for things I care about are full of people who are dogmatic to the point of being actively stupid. But I do like thinking about the ideas and topics of those communities, and discussing flawed ideologies within a particular community is probably worthwhile and necessary.

  • moobythegoldensock@geddit.social
    0·
    2 years ago

    The official reddit app keeps crashing on my phone and I don’t like Narwhal so Lemmy has actually been pretty nice. And I like being able to hide posts so I’m not just seeing the same posts on my feed over and over.

  • beachcamp@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    2 years ago

    I’m not sure if my life has improved per se, but it has finally broken my, probably, unhealthy Reddit addiction for the first time in probably 5-10 years. And no I’m not actually using Lemmy all that much as a replacement.

    So that’s been good.

  • kworpy@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    I never really used Reddit, but I’m happy that they absolutely destroyed it since I enjoy using Lemmy more.

  • wozomo@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    There’s a lot educational material as opposed to trash, and, like in school (but not like on Reddit), I haven’t felt condemned for expressing thoughts that might piss off one dominant political ideology or another.

  • kommarihipsteri@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    I like it here at Lemmy. Here one can actually have conversations. Oh, and there are no nazis here.

    Unfortunately I have been spending the same time online as I would have with reddit.