Added Mlem to the spot where Apollo once lived. Hope it can live up
Yeah I did the same with Jerboa a few days ago. I keep clicking it, and it’s actually building the “good” habit of using Lemmy instead of reddit. There’s less content here though, but maybe that’s a blessing in disguise. Filling the “mindless scrolling of the internet” time with something useful should be my actual goal. So having less stuff to browse might help with that.
This is the way.
Do your part by posting. Or doing what redditors do best - repost!!
Exactly the same. If I’m gonna have muscle memory take me there, it may as well be an app that serves a similar function.
Writing from mlem now :D. Thanks for the tip
Same but with Jerboa and reddit is fun
That’s what I did and it’s been working. Haven’t accidentally (or intentionally) opened Apollo once since the black out started
Memmy is good too. It’s in TestFlight on iOS. I use both. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. Will keep using them as they update.
I believe this is the link:
I got you
- add ebook reader app to phone
- download ebooks
- pretend ebooks are long-form Reddit posts
- become well-read while wasting time
If you can’t read, download picture ebooks instead
Can always try replacing it with this TestFlight app Memmy. https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmy/discussions/13
Thanks for this, I wasn’t really liking Mlem a whole lot.
Let me know any issues you run into or ideas you have! Will keep you guys all up to date
Doing my part 🫡
Consider, if you haven’t already, creating a community for discussions about the app!
I’m the guy that reported the bug this morning and although I have next to no knowledge of react projects am trying to implement my requested feature :)
I’ll be going through them in a few hours. Thank you!
For me Jerboa is now where Infinity for Reddit used to be.
Using Jeroba instead of Baconreader, but yep…
i need to heal my brain from mindless scrolling
Interact with that weird green stuff on the ground
there are bugs in it
to be honest, I like lemmy. It’s a lot calmer.
While its does feel like reddit 10 years ago, the appeal to me became that reddit always had soemthign new no matter the hour of day. Hope Lemmy can get there.
Calmer?
CALMER!
SERENITY NOW
Deleted Reddit and Twitter same day, I’m bored for sure but it’s kind of insane how addicted to information I am. Trying to break it is hard.
Addicted to information, or (useless) scrolling through posts? It took me long, too long to be honest, that Reddit was mostly scrolling through useless information. I’m glad I’m done with Reddit now.
Addicted to information, that’s a good way of putting it. I feel the same! The constant stream from reddit took so much of my time. I do miss it and it’s still a good way to stay informed about what’s going on in the world. I much prefer the forum style to TikTok/Reels/Shorts/etc, which feels like brainrot if you spend any amount of time scrolling through
I’ve been thinking of deleting my Reddit account but haven’t gone through with it. This post motivated me enough to at least delete my Reddit app (slide for iOS). So many wasted hours I’ve been spending on that app just mindlessly scrolling like a robot.
Now to my next addiction: watching YouTube videos which won’t make me smarter (gaming content) on my phone.
slide (ios) has the best interface among the foss 3rd party apps for reddit. was surprised that it looked different in android so i used infinity there, which isnt as nice.
Now to my next addiction: watching YouTube videos which won’t make me smarter (gaming content) on my phone.
Are you me?
Jokes aside, I use(d) Apollo for my mindless scrolling of the internet. One feature that I loved was the option to turn off endless scrolling. You would reach an end and have to click to continue scrolling. Often I found myself on my phone without realising, and that feature managed to break me out of it each time.
Hehe who knows? Brother or sister from a different mother.
Cool feature, wish slide had that feature. So how do you deal with spending hours watching YouTube videos? The thing about YouTube is that you don’t need an app. You just enter YouTube in your web browser. Avoiding logging in to that site will require a huge amount of self-restraint and since I’ve got an addiction personality that isn’t easy.
Try an RSS aggregator app like Feedly and add all your favorite topics/sites. I filled mine up with web comics, car blogs and tech stuff. Also been getting into NPR lately, lots of interesting stuff and less of a focus on politics.
That’s what I did at first. But for me the beauty of reddit isn’t with the post themselves, it’s in the comments.
Same here. I miss the sub with my countrymen, where we could discuss the daily happenings/news. I liked reading different experiences on the topics.
In solidarity with those post I deleted RIF from my phone. This is my home now.
Jerboa has been good so far. Somehow the discussions on lemmy feels more engaging than on reddit. Might be because there are no bots regurgiating comments. But the lack of my favourite subreddits have helped my phone addiction 😂 Hopefully this will be rectified soon 😉
I just wish it was easier to explore other lemmy instances or do anything other than view already subscribed sections in jeroba. On android 11 and earlier you can at least go into settings and make it so that when people post links to other areas in lemmy it will open in jeroba but Google took away the ability to manually control which apps open what links in android 12.
Much less hate fueled comments and trolls over here. Hopefully it stays that way. If you looked at Reddit during the blackout most of the remaining content was ‘conservatives’ and hate.
I’m actually spending more time on lemmy, hacker news, and (gasp) 9gag as well now.
Haven’t been to 9gag since a decade ago. When I was still a teenager, I used to be addicted with 9gag. Young me found le comics so entertaining and funny. It was so addicting doom scrolling on 9gag.
When you see it, you’ll shit brix.
Polymer clay. My first attempts were utter crap but within a week I was making really cool stuff. My last thing was a totoro ornament. Any polymer clay communities?
The whole debacle made me realize how much of an addiction I had to reddit (not like dysfunctional levels, but still…). App checking is definitely a weird side-effect, as is all the free time I have haha.
For now, Lemmy helps in giving a similar vibe but the calmness (for now) makes it easier to set boundaries, I think. Hope to build healthier habits this time around!
