LOL I totally identify with this. I don't remember upvoting, but it looks like I already did. Just un-upvoted and re-upvoted for good measure.

Commented from Voyager

Welp, that's enough Lemmy, let me just check kbin where I have an identical set of subscriptions...

Unironically & with no malice attached, you should log off for a bit. Social media, and the pocket scryers that enable it, were designed in part to short circuit your reward centers. If you want off the dopamine treadmill, you'll have to make a concious effort.

Break your rhythm, get a book or something and a burner flip phone for emergencies. Or a lock app.

Yeah we gotta be the pioneers for now! Screw reddit the ownership sucks we just need the people to join us here make it more fun

I have Jerboa, sync, connect, summit, and liftoff. Each is logged into a different account on a different instance. I like being to scroll through local timelines. On Reddit, I had several different accounts I used for different interests. Lemmy isn't quite big enough for that yet, but different local timelines are interesting, and allow me something to do when one has down time.

i have now done this with reddit, lemmy, and mastodon

ah, the joys of having multiple clients to the same platform

Set one to default open to all/hot and the other one to all/new. And a third one to subscribed/top 24h or something

Sometimes I remember to check out Mastodon.

I'm an old person, I still check MetaFilter, Slashdot, and hackernews regularly. Occasionally places like hackaday. Also the forums on private trackers. Lots of good content out there, and I'd rather pull a link/set of links I found from somewhere like MeFi or hackernews than reddit.

Hmmm, I should start work soon.

I start instance surfing. I go into federated instance lists and just pick a random one to explore.