You have social media addiction, but there is only enough new content to support 20 minutes of doom scrolling every evening
It’s reddit methadone. I’m doing much better
Oh, gods yes. Never looked back. This place is like reddit, but with the chill, friendly vibes of Usenet.
Same
I actually scroll through lemmy a lot more than 20 minutes. So the content here has clearly grown.
People on the fediverse should post more pictures of the food they are eating. That would really turn things around here.
Lunch today
I’m addicted to crack, but it’s fine since it’s organic locally-sourced fairtrade crack
Are you trapped in here with me? Or am I trapped in here with you?
We’re trapped in here with us
^(as long as you don’t defederate)
yes
and I wouldn’t have it any other way!
Ahhhh!
You won’t know until you open the box.
Me trying to infinite scroll but the algorithm is just new posts in chronological order. What is this, a reasonable platform that I don’t feel like using 24/7?
Me- Top 6 hours. Browse on and off throughout the day, then when I get low on content I hit top 6 hours again and keep going. But I’m not on my phone that much especially on work days.
I set my front page to Top 24 Hours, that’s what my Reddit front page was set to so it’s mainly for familiarity.
Maybe it’s just me, maybe it’s the algorithms, but I do notice a difference in how I feel after spending time on the Lemmy or Mastodon vs Instagram or LinkedIn
You doom scroll LinkedIn?
No, I just never feel good after using it
That sounds like the step right before hitting rock bottom.
Idk what your feed looks like but if it’s like mine-- posts hyping ai juxtaposed with posts from artists that are (rightfully) upset that their work is being used without their consent to train generative ai in a push to replace artists or devalue their work-- linkedin can feel pretty dire and soul sucking.
I mainly do it to see if there are any new security breaches at LinkedIn.
It’s like switiching to only organic ice cream from regular one.
“I want a DQ Blizzard!”
“We have ice cream at home.”
“But home is a bunch of shipping containers welded together.”
“Correct. And it’s wonderful.”
Message boards arent social media.
I too only think of shit like twitter, tiktok, insta, youtube, etc. to be social media, but drawing the line is difficult. Why aren’t forums social media? What are the qualities (or lack thereof) that define social media and those that don’t?
With social media, you follow people, not topics and people for some batshit insane reason are willing to use their real name and face. With a forum, or in this case link aggregation platform, you follow topics. There is no real incentive or reason to follow an individual on a forum.
I know none if you cunts IRL and I’m going to keep it that way. My Facebook is full of people I hang out with in the flesh.
Hey want to grab a beer?
That does sounds like a reasonable definition. An in a meme community of all places.
Hear me out, I genuinely want to know what someone thinks of this idea.
We have Life Phone 3 coming soon and some good e-ink options.
I have been thinking about one of those e-ink box Palmas and putting a minimalist launcher on it making it my primary work device or get away from the world device.
My Pixel 8 Pro is running GrapheneOS so my primary phone would manage my worldly needs in a private manner while my Boox would handle my get away needs for just the essentials. Reading and browsing nothing more.
I would lock the device down with a child google account and Google’s family link app. This could see screen time prevent launcher changing and unnecessary app downloads my primary phone could manage it under a segmented Google profile in GrapheneOS. I think I would find myself to annoyed to even bother allowing app downloads so I would just install what is felt the phone was necessary for. A basic web browser, minimalist launcher and reading apps, lemmy and maybe Reddit. It would cut downy screentime a lot I think.
It’s still too easy to install apps. You xan just type a parent’s password on the kid’s device to continue.
We’re all gonna be alright.
ouch
