Reddit protesters: How are you spending the blackout?

Wasting my life on Lemmy instead.

I spent it hunting down a reddit alternative and browsing on lemmy.

I'm not going back. Reddit will go downhill gradually as it tries to squeeze out value at the expense of the community, and that's not something I'm going to support it any way.

I think you're going to find a little bit of a sampling bias asking that question here.

I migrated over to Lemmy and am learning more about that. As crazy as it sounds, I have cut my screen time in half since the blackout. I think this has shown me I’m on technology a bit too much and I need to go outside more and be more productive with my day.

I feel like Reddit is a big basket of candy and goodies and I'm just sitting here staring at it telling myself not to touch. I've spent the time away by listening to podcasts and spending more time outside gardening and reading actual books and not a screen. It's really rewarding and freeing, but I miss interacting with a community so I'm glad to have been directed to Lemmy.

I visited Facebook.. It wasn't nice.

I’m spending the time, accidentally absentmindedly clicking on Apollo, seeing the protest posts and then force closing the app. Haha

Trying to figure out Lemmy. It's not easy...

Also, replying to users who keep requesting access to our blacked out sub.

Well, looking if this lemmy thing is a good replacement ;) So far seems this is the way to go!

Well, Lemmy, of course! Also, discovering new sites at https://cloudhiker.net/explore, some Plex maintenance and even a little bit of baking!

I still opened RedReader by reflex a couple of times, but I closed immediately. So far, I don't miss reddit at all. I have been pleasantly surprised by how welcoming this community has been, thank you everyone!

Honestly, just taking a break from social media all together. Reddit was my main source of "media" for the past 7 years. I joined Lemmy to hopefully be a replacement. But it's nice to just have a cleansing every once in a while :)

I'm spending it on Lemmy.

I also deleted my rif app so I don't accidentally open it.

So far I've had a pretty darn good experience. It scratches the same itch. But in other ways it's better than Reddit - there's no chance of karma whoring here as there's no real karma system. Upvotes and downvotes are merely tools for boosting visibility and don't have any additional meaning.

Then again, the jerboa app could use more polish and qol updates and additional features, really the Lemmyverse is still early days, like a new house with no furnishings and no front garden, it's bare it's not comfortable yet, but it's all shiny and unmolested. I'm sure things will get better over time.

Mostly Lemmy, Mastodon, actually touching grass after years, and for my less proud time-waster, Discord and Youtube.

Playing disturbing amounts of Factorio. Unfortunately a vast chunk of Factorio knowledge is on Reddit so I keep accidentally navigating there, fortunately the Factorio sub is dark so I can wander off again quickly.

Gardening. The weather is starting to warm up to summer temps so I have been going at it. Honestly, I'm not missing Reddit all that much and I don't see myself using it much in the future regardless of what they end up doing.

Lemmy instead

In the times I'd usually be scrolling reddit, I've been opening the rif app, remembering I'm doing that anymore, then opening Lemmy. Each time I get to know Lemmy a bit more, find a new cub to subscribe to, or answer an ask lemmy question.

I don't want to delete the rif app until it stops working though, at which point I'll naturally leave reddit, cos I never use it on desktop and I'm not downloading the mess of an official app.

Deleted my reddit account on night's eve to the blackout and I've gotten the rss feeds of the subs that are too niche to lose track of. Out of that, Reddit is absolutely dead for me.

Day 4 Reddit-free for me (I deleted all my accounts - one of which was 14+ years old - after the AMA ... jfc what a catastrophe!) Exploring the Fediverse when the servers will allow me, made chicken cacciatore for dinner (it was awesome) and now just wandering around lemmy.ml because I can. Life is good...

I keep habitually itching to use Reddit, but I just replaced the Home Screen icon with Mlem and it’s made that easier

Spent the day installing light switches that I've had sitting in the garage for a year. Pruned some shrubs, burned some leaves, raked some gravel, touched grass, etc. Almost never posted on Reddit. Full time lurker. Enjoying contributing to Lemmy just for the sakes of user interaction :) Let's stoke the fire!!

I’m currently banned anyways. And I don’t really miss it, to be honest.

I keep catching myself starting (but so far never finishing) to type "reddit.com" into my address bar. Lol.

But more to your point, I've done a little more lately on side coding and learning projects while returning to some old favorite sites like Hacker News, Slashdot, and Hackaday. And I've found some new ones like Raddle and, well, Lemmy.

It's a little strange not having reddit to browse but it's been supplemented decently by Lemmy thanks especially to Jerboa (based off of the client I used for reddit: Boost, which is nice).

Trying to boost engagement on here and on Mastodon.

And playing LOTRO

I've worked the whole time. Just avoided checking r/sysadmin and have been checking !sysadmin@lemmy.ml instead (or however you link/tag a community).

On mobile I've habitually reached to tap the Sync Pro icon for Reddit several times, hesitated, and tapped Jerboa for Lemmy or mt kbin icon instead.

Also took our pup to the vet for some of his shots and played with him.

I deleted my 11 year old account and haven’t looked back yet lol.

The amount of content and discussion here has been enough to fill the hole.

I went a bit on reddit and then setup this instance getting it to work today.

Last time I lurked there for a short moment was Friday or Saturday. I just moved around my apps like others so it's out of sight - out of mind. Yeah I miss it, but it just won't be the same without great apps like infinity.

Watching some videos and browsing Mlem. Maybe actually reading articles here and there I found on news sites myself.

Accidentally opened Apollo a few times just out of muscular memory and habit. Immediately closed each time. I decided to move the app of the way so it won’t happen again, and put the beta for mlem in its place.

Otherwise, I had a full day of work - then went out with the wife for a nice dinner with drinks. We’re gonna watch the Nuggets/Heat game in a bit.

So… pretty much a normal day. But with less Reddit.