My niche subreddit is dedicated to pebble watches, but thankfully, they also have a discord community that was started before the reddit fallout.
Saturnlks
joined 1 year ago
So one thing this experience has made me realize is that reddit didn't always keep me up on what I could consider interesting news.
I have an RSS feed setup of about 55 feeds. I would keep scrolling on reddit because I'd want to keep trying to find those interesting articles in a haystack but I think I may have reached overstauration on subreddits that I'd have to scroll through a lot of junk.
With rss feeds set to update once a day, once I reach the end of my feeds I now feel more comfortable saying I'm done wasting time for the day trying to keep up with the feeds.
It does mean though that I have to find other ways to waste those 5 to 15 mins of down time waiting on an elevator or waiting on a coffee if I've read through the news of the day. I've returned to wordle and now the mini crossword from NYTimes.
If nothing else, this has made me realize I don't need to keep endlessly scrolling to pass the time.
Definitely going to be growing pains, but always follow the nerds. Hehe. What sold me on Lemmy or whatever these fediverse connections are was the fact that /r/startrek moved to a Lemmy site.