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      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.

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        Go to your communities/local communites or all in general and sort by new. or sort by new comments in the communities feed. you won’t be disappointed

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      Exactly the same. If I’m gonna have muscle memory take me there, it may as well be an app that serves a similar function.

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      That’s what I did and it’s been working. Haven’t accidentally (or intentionally) opened Apollo once since the black out started

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      Downloaded mlem now, worse than Apollo but better than Reddit. And the content on here is about the same as for Reddit so I’m not complaining!

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    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

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        Let me know any issues you run into or ideas you have! Will keep you guys all up to date

        Doing my part 🫡

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          Consider, if you haven’t already, creating a community for discussions about the app!

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          I’m the guy that reported the bug this morning and although I have next to no knowledge of react projects am trying to implement my requested feature :)

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      While its does feel like reddit 10 years ago, the appeal to me became that reddit always had soemthign new no matter the hour of day. Hope Lemmy can get there.

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        Yeah but back then the pro was that you could actually lead a productive fucking life off your phone lmao. Now if there’s always something new on Reddit it just leads into habit/addiction

        Personally the appeal for me has become the opposite. Because I have to wait for Lemmy to update, I can actually stay off my phone more and do more productive things.

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    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.

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      Addicted to information, or (useless) scrolling through posts? It took me long, too long to be honest, that Reddit was mostly scrolling through useless information. I’m glad I’m done with Reddit now.

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    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 😉

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      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.

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      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.

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    I’ve been thinking of deleting my Reddit account but haven’t gone through with it. This post motivated me enough to at least delete my Reddit app (slide for iOS). So many wasted hours I’ve been spending on that app just mindlessly scrolling like a robot.

    Now to my next addiction: watching YouTube videos which won’t make me smarter (gaming content) on my phone.

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      slide (ios) has the best interface among the foss 3rd party apps for reddit. was surprised that it looked different in android so i used infinity there, which isnt as nice.

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    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.

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      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.

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        Same here. I miss the sub with my countrymen, where we could discuss the daily happenings/news. I liked reading different experiences on the topics.

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      Is Feedlys free version any good or do you recommend paying for it? Don’t know what I think about using an app when an rss feed could be easily read on a plain webpage.

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    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!

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    Polymer clay. My first attempts were utter crap but within a week I was making really cool stuff. My last thing was a totoro ornament. Any polymer clay communities?