I, much like basically everyone here, have been avoiding Reddit when possible, and the content here just doesn’t hit the same. My fried dopamine receptors were certainly screaming for stimulation early on but now I feel an urge to touch grass and breathe fresh air. What is this? Am I dying? I still hate the angry lightbulb in the sky.
In all seriousness though, I’ll admit that I was kind of addicted to Reddit and now I don’t want to go near it. Maybe this will turn a new leaf for me. If not here, I’ll probably find some other way to satiate my dopamine receptors through more productive means.
Same! I would habitually check reddit via Sync all the time, and would quite rarely visit the site from desktop - only if I planned on posting something too large to really do on a phone. I didn’t realise just how much time I spent there until I uninstalled Sync when all this crap started to prevent myself from mindlessly ending up there. I now wonder how much of my life I wasted scrolling through Reddit, and how unbelievably damaging it would be to a brand like Reddit to give people an opportunity to detox like this. I’m really loving Lemmy so far too!