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  1. Get bored.
  2. Open Reddit.
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  4. Open Lemmy.
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Jerboa (mobile app for Lemmy) is really great so far! Feels basically the same to me as Boost was. The sign in process is a little odd (top left hamburger menu, accounts, add account).

I'm staying here, I'm done with Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorta looking forward to how lemmy/beehive/fediverse system improves. It's kinda exciting. Like sure things are a bit rough around the edges for now but so was reddit for a long time. Seems like there's a lot of people working to improve and make it better, and the communities are actually pretty big! I'm excited to get off reddit, that shit was getting stale and I'm hoping that this "reset" will also help build new communities that aren't just reposting the same shit over and over again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah I've been enjoying that aspect too, finding posts from communities I've never heard of before.

I never paid for Reddit, but I've already donated to Lemmy.world (mastodon.world) and the Jerboa app. I've done the same for signal. Just a couple of coffees worth, but I see myself doing it from time to time as I remember.

I'm just so pumped about the way things are growing here, and think this federated donation-based model for a Reddit-like app is fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm really liking this app. Works pretty smoothly and has great UI.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I purposefully moved RIF off of my home screen. My stupid muscle memory kept tapping it every time my idle brain opened the phone. Trying out Jerboa as an app for lemmy at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Exactly my experience and what I ended up doing, put Jerboa on the spot I normally have RIF

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm on a Pixel so not sure if what I'm about to say is possible for everyone, but I used "Digital Wellbeing" to set a usage limit of 0 minutes for RiF, then put Jerboa in the same spot. Working for me at least to not have to completely change muscle memory.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

ive been spending anywhere from 1-4 hours a day on reddit for the past..13 years? probably the most ingrained habit i have. Broke that habit as of two days ago. Weirdly enough, its not even that difficult. Its like i just understood that its time to move on, like a breaking point in a toxic relationship.

Only downside so far is having nothing to do during public transit. Not enough hobby specific discussion here yet, everyone keeps babbling about leaving reddit, like i am right now.. xd

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

lt would be a lot harder to say goodbye if they cared about having us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Most of the redditors only use reddit. To get news, memes, communicate, QnA, everything. That's the reason this protest isn't that effective. People are still gonna browse now and then and give them the sweet ad money, because people literally have nothing else to do.

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

Find a community that you like here and create post and talk. Only way around reddit for now. Give it a week and it will die down

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The blackout is over after tonight, so I guess we'll see how things go then. I left because rif is shutting down on the 30th, so I figured I might as well cut the cord now. I deleted the app when the first sub I subbed to went dark, and I haven't looked back. Today is my third full day without it. I haven't been on Lemmy as much, which is definitely a good thing, lol, but I'm really enjoying it so far. The community seems much more conversational and less offensive. I don't get offended easily, but when people do it just for the sake of being offensive, I don't like it, and reddit was full of those people.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I kept doing this and finally just moved the Jerboa for Lemmy app to where I had RIF and it's been working great.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That's what I did too. It's not quite the same. But muscle memory doesn't betray me at least.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

At this point Ive completely replaced my addiction to reddit with one to lemmy

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That were first two days here, but now I'm invested, people started to share more and suddenly i catch myself scrolling Lemmy for 15 minutes instead of working

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Amen. Half the battle is actually contributing/replying for engagement metrics, so here I am :)

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

I wish I could find an enjoyable experience, but it’s tough to use Lemmy the way I want on iOS. I’m sticking with it though and hoping tooling catches up soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Try Mlem! It's still in Testflight (beta version for iOS), but you can create testflight account and download it for free. It will also help creators of the app find bugs and whatnot! I'm using it rn and it's nice, they're very passionate about it! if not mlem you can also open Lemmy on safari and then make webapp by tapping share icon and then choosing "add to home screen". It will create bookmark on home screen that dont have browser interface and it's working really good actually.

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

I’ve found refuge in my kindle. I break the cycle by forcing myself to read books (trashy sci-fi novels mostly) But I DO want something to keep abreast of what’s going on further from my brain, and Lemmy has almost enough content to get a relatively neutral feed of information. Won’t take much to cross the watershed for me…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I love trashy sci-fi! Any recommendations?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All of CJ Cherryh's stuff, Ghoster (Lee McKee), The heechee saga, all the old (60's through now) scifi short story anthologies, the Star of the guardians trilogy. I used to trawl used book stores (when that was a thing) with a backpack full of trade ins . Used the anthologies to find authors, etc etc. Something for something, What about you?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suppose I might just be a crazy person, but this seems as good a place to ask as any.

Any reason my upvotes (& downvotes for that matter) don't seem to stick? Just made an account and was scrolling thru this thread, upvoted some comments. And within like 2 seconds, the blue upvote highlight disappeared and the comment score went back to what it was before I had interacted. Same with downvotes.

Imma try it on desktop soon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i get this a lot randomly as well, on any platform. i assume it's just a bug, sometimes hours later it'll have worked on the server side, sometimes not. very annoying

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Cool beans, thanks for responding.

It does seem to register ultimately even if seems to reverse on the front-end. In, other news how are you liking the switch over from reddit?

Trying to figure out the Lemmy system, it's a bit obtuse at first glance. But as someone mentioned in another thread, that may just be a feature not a bug.

Haven't deleted my account on reddit, but did replace the sync icon on my phone with jerboa. and just been avoiding old.reddit on the desktop. I feel like the kid in starship troopers stomping on bugs yelling "I'll do my part!" (minus the animal cruelty, of course)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i just replaced the Reddick icon with lemmy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, once I replaced RiF with the Jerboa icon it's like muscle memory Day 2 and I'm already used to jerboa/Lemmy/feddiverse whatever you wanna call it lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I doctored my bookmarks to exclude Reddit. On my phone I replaced it was Jerboa, which I was very impressed with as an alpha app. It's already better than Reddit's official app. I'm very guilty of doing the same like you. Launch up reddit then correct myself. I'm comitted to the move away.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It's usually difficult for me to break habits, but right now I'm motivated by rage and contempt, which is making it a lot easier. And the fediverse is like a methadone drip to come down from the heroin-like addictiveness of endless information.

Tip: instead of opening reddit, just search "reddit" and read all the tech news articles shitting on Steve Huffman in diplomatic ways. It's very satisfying.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I removed the app from my home screen and that made things easier.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I replaced it with Jerboa. Muscle memory will help :P

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I ditched Reddit a few weeks ago for other reasons (I am going full FOSS/decentralised services). My Reddit account was 11 years old, I don't miss it at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

i thought i was the only one doing that

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

I anticipated this and deleted my (3rd party) app icon on the 11th. Just migrated here today. This definitely fills the void for me. I'll only miss a select few subreddits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Same, RIF will be dead soon once the API changes take effect. Might as well rip the bandaid off now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah, same here. Lemmy sort of scratches the itch, but it's a big itch.

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

Communities will need time to grow again, but I'm hopeful and cautiously optimistic

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Lemmy has replaced everything reddit was for me, so I just deleted the app

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I moved my Apollo icon to a different location, and it helped the first couple times. But now… I’ve quickly replaced the habit with loading up Lemmy in my browser, haha

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Went to go get some errands done, and come back to find I have more Lemmy upvotes than I had karma in the last 10 years lol.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah I wish people would stop posting on Lemmy about Reddit and start posting something interesting instead

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought I was addicted to Reddit, but compared to some of you I was totally fine all along! Hurrah!

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

I opened it twice today and was met with the β€˜Reddit is killing Third-Party Applications’ and remembered I need to keep sticking it to the man.

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