this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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Back in the ole Reddit days of ereyestermonth I had a habit of closing my reddit app of choice on my phone, and then as a reflex immediately open that same app back up.

The issue has evolved for me on Lemmy. I have two Lemmy apps on my home screen. I was using Voyager before Sync was released and then I started using Sync. But I also kept Voyager on my home screen since Sync didn't support posts when the beta was originally released. But now I'm too lazy to remove it. I still like Voyager anyway.

You see where this is going. I'm now stuck in a loop where I'm closing one app and opening the other, just to read through the exact same posts.

Send help. Or not. This is fine. I'm going to take a break from Lemmy for the rest of the day.

Posted from Sync for Lemmy

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LOL I totally identify with this. I don't remember upvoting, but it looks like I already did. Just un-upvoted and re-upvoted for good measure.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is your post. You're commenting on your own post. You ok?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean, bird from sync made the post. That’s bird from Voyager.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Commented from Voyager

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

OP needs rest.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Welp, that's enough Lemmy, let me just check kbin where I have an identical set of subscriptions...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unironically & with no malice attached, you should log off for a bit. Social media, and the pocket scryers that enable it, were designed in part to short circuit your reward centers. If you want off the dopamine treadmill, you'll have to make a concious effort.

Break your rhythm, get a book or something and a burner flip phone for emergencies. Or a lock app.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Oh great, now Hexbear is brigading this post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I adore the use of "pocket scryers". I will be yoinking that from you now :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah we gotta be the pioneers for now! Screw reddit the ownership sucks we just need the people to join us here make it more fun

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Set one to default open to all/hot and the other one to all/new. And a third one to subscribed/top 24h or something

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I have Jerboa, sync, connect, summit, and liftoff. Each is logged into a different account on a different instance. I like being to scroll through local timelines. On Reddit, I had several different accounts I used for different interests. Lemmy isn't quite big enough for that yet, but different local timelines are interesting, and allow me something to do when one has down time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

i have now done this with reddit, lemmy, and mastodon

ah, the joys of having multiple clients to the same platform

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Sometimes I remember to check out Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm an old person, I still check MetaFilter, Slashdot, and hackernews regularly. Occasionally places like hackaday. Also the forums on private trackers. Lots of good content out there, and I'd rather pull a link/set of links I found from somewhere like MeFi or hackernews than reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But not fark?

[–] Minarble 2 points 1 year ago

Hmmm, I should start work soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I start instance surfing. I go into federated instance lists and just pick a random one to explore.