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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)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I also don't have reddit addiction syndrome anymore.

Now I have Lemmy Addiction Syndrome...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's called Fediverse Addiction Syndrome

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Nah, only Lemmy. I don't like the Mastodon system where you follow users instead of communities. Like why would I want to follow some random internet strangers I don't know, instead of an actual community of people with similar interests to have a meaningful discussion with? Any Twitter-like system where you follow users is just not my type of platform to use.

Much easier to search for "Technology" and have a full community instead of finding a Mastodon User equivalent of LinusTechTips, which is just one person. I'd have to search for every tech person to get all the tech stuff. I prefer just one community for everything.

[–] kanzalibrary 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nah, only Lemmy. I don’t like the Mastodon system where you follow users instead of communities. Like why would I want to follow some random internet strangers I don’t know, instead of an actual community of people with similar interests to have a meaningful discussion with? Any Twitter-like system where you follow users is just not my type of platform to use.

Yeah, I think there's great benefit in our mental too from that standpoint. Like you have more active to interact digitally and have more diverse idea to talk rather than passive scrolling the content without any engagement or just leave short comment. At least for me, Lemmy push me more less seeing the contents and focus what people's mind in the comments section and trying to make meaningful discussion from that..

[–] kanzalibrary 3 points 1 year ago

And increase your memorable moment in digital world I think? the cons of infinite scrolling imo is you can't find anything to remember for mid to long time. Which means what we do are tend to meanlngless activity, Unless we create that mark on the internet (comment like this) so your brain not just only received many types of informations (till ur brain overload with it), but creating a dynamic to think in your mind. But yeah, that's what I feel now for sure..

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 year ago

To be fair, you can just follow hashtags on Mastodon if you don't want to follow specific people. I still prefer Lemmy though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m glad I’m not the only one, lol. I’m just sitting here like, “I think my addictive behavior is coming from the inside, because if I get the same kind of stimulus, I have the same response…”

But, on the plus side, Lemmy is doing a much better job of delivering dopamine hits than Reddit was. Reddit is like the dealer who gives you good stuff at first, then starts cutting it with something else, raising the price, refusing to answer the phone for a month while you’re having withdrawals, and generally making your life miserable for no good reason.

[–] Sine_Fine_Belli 4 points 1 year ago