• mommykink@lemmy.world
      741·
      1 year ago

      Not enought content here to replace all that time saved IMO. At my worst I was browsing Reddit 6+ hours a day. Here, I can’t even go 2 hours without seeing the same content…

      None of this is a criticism against Lemmy btw

      • spitz@lemmy.ml
        15·
        1 year ago

        I get what you mean. But I just spread my net wider. Give more communities a chance, and unsubscribe from the ones that aren’t what I’m looking for. It’s frustrating, but it will improve. And it’s better than dealing with reddit.

        • mommykink@lemmy.world
          13·
          1 year ago

          Oh I agree 100% but there are definitely aspects of Reddit that just aren’t replaceable with Lemmy. Lemmy has almost no car communities (besides FuckCars), which is a hobby that takes up a lot of my time. I’ve replaced the time I spent on Reddit car subs with /o/ and other forums.

          As for my other interests, though, I think Lemmy is definitely better for my mental health. Nobody needs a constant stream of new memes to access whenever they want. I was developing a serious case of brainrot mindlessly scrolling when I still used Reddit.

          • spitz@lemmy.ml
            4·
            1 year ago

            Yeah definitely. That’s what I was saying about spreading my net wider here. I try communities of topics that I’m not necessarily interested in, but could be. Being a bit more open minded giving new things a chance.

      • Micromot@lemmycook.de
        11·
        1 year ago

        For me it’s actually a good thing to not have the almost infinite stream of content that reddit had because it stops me from doomscrolling for hours on end and leads me to actually doing something

      • DarthBueller@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        I get that way a month ago. And yeah, I quickly run into duplicate content, but over the last couple weeks the duplicate content has been strongly peppered with new content that is highly engaging. With less churn, I find that I spend more time commenting as well.

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
        2·
        1 year ago

        For me, I struggle to find communities to post some types of content in, and I don’t really want to create a brand new comm just for a single post.

        So I end up not posting those things 🫣

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
      161·
      1 year ago

      Ditto, though the maintenance has really gone down since the early days of the migration. Now I basically just restart the docker container twice a week to bandaid Lemmy’s memory leak and that’s it.

      I don’t have a large enough userbase to really worry about super active moderation so it’s really not bad now.

  • Trollivier@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    1 year ago

    For real? Taking care of my mental health. I was in a very bad spot of my life earlier this year. I lost my best friend who also happened to be my business partner, he died in March.

    It was a shock, we both founded a small NPO together, he was behind all the strategy, I was more into communication. We thought he would recover from his cancer, but he caught covid while his immune system was at its weakest. He lost that battle.

    I immediately tried to find my next professional step, insisting that I had to find a way to promote social economy locally, as that’s what we wanted to do together.

    All this pressure on myself by myself, plus the state of the world, neverending flow of bad news, me losing faith in mostly everything and becoming extra cynical, I ended up flirting with a major burnout.

    Fortunately, I asked for help when it was still time to act, and the reddit api scandal happened at about the same time. Leaving reddit was one of the first step towards recovery. All the subreddits were basically optimized for doomscrolling, which was super toxic for the state of mind I was in.

    I just started to use lemmy last week since I found that Sync for Lemmy was available. And I only subscribed to things that aren’t too toxic. I’m now on medication to avoid depression. It’s been 3 weeks and it’s already much better.

    I don’t think I’ll be browsing Lemmy as much as I was browsing reddit.

    • TheHalc@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m sorry to hear about your loss. Losing a close friend is awful, especially when it’s stacked on top of other things.

    • charlytune@mander.xyz
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m sorry about your friend, and I’m glad you’re finding a way to deal with the grief and the shock. It never goes away, but you learn to manage it, and you learn how to live with it, and that makes it easier eventually. You’ll navigate your way through this, I’m sure.

  • xNekoyaki@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 year ago

    Reading more books during breaks at work! It’s easier to focus on reading books when I don’t have reddit on my phone. I like Lemmy, but I mostly use it for 15min at a time. Since I joined Lemmy/stopped using reddit mobile, I’ve read 5 books! :)

      • oʍʇǝuoǝnu@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ve wanted to try DnD for a while so this is a nice way to test it out. Now I need to try and find a group and align schedules uggghh.