Whatcha up to this blackout eve? How are you spending it? Anything you’ve made more time for? Do any of you feel antsy? Lmk! :)
I think you’re going to find a little bit of a sampling bias asking that question here.
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.
Trying to figure out Lemmy. It’s not easy…
Also, replying to users who keep requesting access to our blacked out sub.
Wasting my life on Lemmy instead.
The only valid answer!
Yeah I thought about trying to better myself like learn to bake a soufflé, read a book, workout but then I just go to Lemmy
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.
The factory must grow.
My man
Not a man. Love your username though, as luck would have it my most recent endeavor was getting iron plates onto my new train network. Finally migrating from bootstrap to real base
Anyone can be my man, regardless of gender.
I’m spending the time, accidentally absentmindedly clicking on Apollo, seeing the protest posts and then force closing the app. Haha
I had to move bacon reader off my homepage so I’d stop clicking on it.
Well, looking if this lemmy thing is a good replacement ;) So far seems this is the way to go!
Especially with Jerboa already in place, its IMO a good switch.
The one thing that worries me is all that useful info trapped on Reddit, if Lemmy data expires then that has a long term cost/loss which is sad.
I visited Facebook… It wasn’t nice.
Yeah I’ve seen enough of my older relative’s political views to know that one is a lost cause haha
I keep habitually itching to use Reddit, but I just replaced the Home Screen icon with Mlem and it’s made that easier
Don’t hate me but I’m still checking on on Boost. Many of the tiny communities I like are not here yet but I’m subtlety suggesting they should expand their horizons in this direction.
I figure the protest doesn’t much matter Reddit isn’t going to back down they are a private company still and not subject to the will of Investors. As long as we get out before the try to go public it will foil their plans. I’d like to delete my account there soon
I noticed the weak point of this protest was the alternatives options where not made clear (or maybe suggestions got supressed) finding Lemmy took me some time and I suspect that communities and users remaining on reddit may not be aware of it.
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.
This is day 2 for me on Lemmy, plus a bit of time for the previous 3 or 4 messing about here and there. And… I’m kinda in love. I just hope there’s more people showing up, with more content and such soon :)
Mostly Lemmy, Mastodon,
actually touching grass after years,and for my less proud time-waster, Discord and Youtube.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.
The censorship is a pain though, like your comment was auto-censored for “karma x”.
I think they should just ban spammers and scammers and let the votes decide the rest.
Huh, didn’t know about the censorship. I guess that’s dependent on the server you are on?
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.
aww puppyyy!! 🥺
Yes! Little Pembroke Welsh Corgi x Chihuahua mix. He’s a cute little bugger!
We would love your smol dog over at https://lemmy.world/c/smol_dogs =P
You don’t have to tell me twice! Thanks for the invite!
I might spam lemmy on my sub if things on reddit continue the way they are going. in fact i will probably have both subs open. i admit its fun here more then reddit. reddit i turned the sub automated
omgomogmomgomg cuuute!!!
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.
This sounds oddly familiar 🤔
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 also removed reddit from my home screen to give the Fediverse a genuine shot. Most places are pretty barren - but there is effort more or less all around trying to produce content.
Memes are pretty active but focused almost exclusively on reddit blackout and the capacity to engage over memes isn’t big. World News isn’t bad. And board games is spooling up as well. This however has been the most active slice I’ve visited so far; still mostly about the reddit blackout but there are other questions too. Aww is running and even NSFW slices are starting to get a trickle of original content.
