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Here's the thing. Reddit had me hooked on it like no other until the API fuck up. Pretty much dropped it on it the spot.
After the first week it dawned on me how much time I was spending there.
So while I setup here, much less time is being spent online overall. But the interaction has jumped up immensely.
My garden is looking better and I'm hitting the gym much more often.
Same here. I replaced Reddit with Lemmy for the most part. It doesn't have as much content but the content that is here is much better.
Since there's not an infinite scroll of new stuff, I spend more time working on hobbies, which means I post more content too.
This is exactly me, but no the garden, my steam deck is getting a workout ๐๐
Same here! Was a reddit addict for years. Have been dropping my usage down for a while, to the point that I barely used it before the api changes. After the API changes I quit altogether bc I feel greasy every time I support them in any way. Then Boost my 3pa finally died and I haven't logged in since bc the official app is absolute trash. Liftoff has been a decent replacement so far but I really wish the boost Dev would hurry up with releasing their Lemmy app!
Other than that yeah, I've spent much more time outdoors. Even before the API announcement I'd replaced reddit with writing bc I mostly made lengthy comments anyway. Writing skills are pretty solid now& I think I've put in at least, oh shit I write about 3 hours most days and it's been a few years of writing, I've written around a thousand+ hours just in the past year or so! Very happy about that bc I enjoy it. Tbh if I'd scrolled Reddit mindlessly all that time well damn, I wouldn't have learned anything but a few random facts. Wouldn't have gotten better at anything except commenting.. sheesh. I like Lemmy and support it but think we should all probably reduce our online time a bit, bc as much as I love it, we really could be doing more with our lives and mindlessly scrolling the web is almost always just wasted time. Can't think of anything I've ever done online that's actually bettered my life in anyway, much less bettered myself. Enrolling in classes and learning? Sure. Scrolling mindlessly? No.. it's not good for us.