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
For me Jerboa is now where Infinity for Reddit used to be.
Interact with that weird green stuff on the ground
there are bugs in it
Lemmy’s buggy too yet I don’t see you complaining
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.
Would you care to give Mastodon a try now?
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.
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 😉
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 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.
In solidarity with those post I deleted RIF from my phone. This is my home now.
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.
Can always try replacing it with this TestFlight app Memmy. https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmy/discussions/13
to be honest, I like lemmy. It’s a lot calmer.
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!
i need to heal my brain from mindless scrolling
Now we can do it on Lemmy!
