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
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.
How’s that working out for you?
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.
“our” video games…
Oh so that’s why when I played farming sim none of the crops grew.
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.
I have a Steam Deck - Proton really does work as well as advertised (for the games I like)
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.
…to stop me from seizing the
meansmemes of production.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks to Reddit nuking itself I am now spending 6 more hours a day writing code (I’m the developer of Summit for Lemmy) :D
My life hasn’t improved, I still doom scroll on Lemmy.
Honestly I think I spend a similar amount of time on lemmy overall but at least a decent portion of it is now things like learning rust to try and contribute. And getting backups figured out for my hosting so I don’t lose data for my two users. It’s a bigger learning opportunity than reddit mostly.
The lower content rate also means things are less addictive, mostly. I do find the smaller community more engaging though, for better or worse as it relates to my content consumption.
It has brought me to lemmy
I been doing a lot of self hosting projects! Because the content in Lemmy is so engaging and genuine. I am also hosting my own lemmy instance as you can see.
Yes the content here feels very real
More time to read novels before bed.
I find myself reading my Kindle more. Although I do miss out on finding out news that’s currently happening, e.g I didn’t realize Twitter rebranded to X and I don’t really go on Twitter as much was something pretty surprising.
I also found Lemmy to be much slower in terms of posts and engagement so it’s hard to find meaningful discussions or funny comments that I usually like to find on posts about what’s currently new.
I’ve never posted on Reddit at all and was a lurker for almost 10 years so I feel like writing and commenting on Lemmy to contribute. Although a part of me refuses to bring back the golden years of Reddit in Lemmy. Maybe the death of Reddit third party apps was just what I needed to enjoy the current moment and try other new hobbies.
It hasn’t.
I left Reddit, no improvement.
Reddit banned me, ignoring their own rules, no improvement.
I appealed, so they permabanned me for repeated offense, still no improvement.
I blanked all my Reddit history… some fleeting improvement, but it didn’t last.
I’m writing this on Lemmy, while taking a dump at 4am next to a bleeding cat who’s made a mess of the bathroom, thinking which part to clean first… still no improvement.
Reddit wasn’t as important to my life, it didn’t have a real impact on it. Life has an impact on life.
I’m done now, I pooped… slight improvement.
Hoping to poop tomorrow.
which part to clean first
Your bumhole
Not wrong, and done.
Followed by washing my hands, applying some peroxide to the cat, removing bloody streaks from sink and floor, changing some towels, washing hands again… and I’m done for the night. Rest of walls and floor can wait, towels ready for the washing machine.
Now back to bed, to dream about it, for sure.
what happened to your cat
And reddit is restoring the deleted comments as we speak. There is another thread catching detailing it, not surprising after spez altered comments in the past and admitted it.
So I’m brand new here by a few days. I was banned from Reddit entirely after forgetting what account I was on and commenting in a fallout sub I wan banned from. The mod from said fallout sub refused to believe this was an accident, (I thought I was in a completely different fallout sub with a similar icon) said my appeals were considered “argumentative”and pulled the “I’m also an admin” card. Now every account I make gets perma-banned from all of Reddit within 6 hours of being made. Kills me. It’s more a deep void to me not because I just can’t use it considering the mindless monotony of most subs, but because I like to create and my sole platform to share anything I make was ripped from me by some neckbeard that was given a smidgen of power. Still, I never answered your question so; it hasn’t. Yet. I just found lemmy and am hoping it’ll be a great place to fill that void but only time will tell.
I was making virtual machines to get around the blocks, for a long time until the third party apps were killed and lemmy took off. Feels nice here, porn is lacking.
My life has neither improved nor degraded. It’s just changed slightly. I am enjoying no ads and lots of content variety in the #fediverse.
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.
Far fewer assholes to mod, more time spent reading and biking, less stress.
