I find i’m doing more activities in the real world, sitting with my thoughts, and not constantly needing content to fill the void (as much)
thanks spez
I joined Lemmy and immediately felt out of place and a little lost.
Anyway, I’ve been here a month and, to make sure I fit in, I’ve installed Linux and joined the communist party.
How’s that working out for you?
None of my videogames work anymore but on the bright side, I now realise they are just an opiate of the masses employed by the bourgeoisie to stop me from seizing the means of production.
Boots quick though.
You probably already have, but if you’ve not yet check out Wine and Proton, I’ve seen numerous guides on setting up a Linux gaming rig that runs Windows games.
I have a Steam Deck - Proton really does work as well as advertised (for the games I like)
…to stop me from seizing the
meansmemes of production.
Thanks to Reddit nuking itself I am now spending 6 more hours a day writing code (I’m the developer of Summit for Lemmy) :D
It has brought me to lemmy
My life hasn’t improved, I still doom scroll on Lemmy.
I feel so much more positive about having conversations on the internet now.
More time to read novels before bed.
I find myself reading my Kindle more. Although I do miss out on finding out news that’s currently happening, e.g I didn’t realize Twitter rebranded to X and I don’t really go on Twitter as much was something pretty surprising.
I also found Lemmy to be much slower in terms of posts and engagement so it’s hard to find meaningful discussions or funny comments that I usually like to find on posts about what’s currently new.
I’ve never posted on Reddit at all and was a lurker for almost 10 years so I feel like writing and commenting on Lemmy to contribute. Although a part of me refuses to bring back the golden years of Reddit in Lemmy. Maybe the death of Reddit third party apps was just what I needed to enjoy the current moment and try other new hobbies.
Far fewer assholes to mod, more time spent reading and biking, less stress.
So I’m brand new here by a few days. I was banned from Reddit entirely after forgetting what account I was on and commenting in a fallout sub I wan banned from. The mod from said fallout sub refused to believe this was an accident, (I thought I was in a completely different fallout sub with a similar icon) said my appeals were considered “argumentative”and pulled the “I’m also an admin” card. Now every account I make gets perma-banned from all of Reddit within 6 hours of being made. Kills me. It’s more a deep void to me not because I just can’t use it considering the mindless monotony of most subs, but because I like to create and my sole platform to share anything I make was ripped from me by some neckbeard that was given a smidgen of power. Still, I never answered your question so; it hasn’t. Yet. I just found lemmy and am hoping it’ll be a great place to fill that void but only time will tell.
I was making virtual machines to get around the blocks, for a long time until the third party apps were killed and lemmy took off. Feels nice here, porn is lacking.
Well, it hasn’t improved my life in any way because it’s just a website I’ve stopped using.
But most of the threads on Reddit degenerated into shitslinging and just general unpleasantness. I’ve not come across any of that here (yet) and it is refreshing. Not to mention the lack of ads and algorithms pushing stuff at me is like the old days.
It hasn’t.
I left Reddit, no improvement.
Reddit banned me, ignoring their own rules, no improvement.
I appealed, so they permabanned me for repeated offense, still no improvement.
I blanked all my Reddit history… some fleeting improvement, but it didn’t last.
I’m writing this on Lemmy, while taking a dump at 4am next to a bleeding cat who’s made a mess of the bathroom, thinking which part to clean first… still no improvement.
Reddit wasn’t as important to my life, it didn’t have a real impact on it. Life has an impact on life.
I’m done now, I pooped… slight improvement.
Hoping to poop tomorrow.
which part to clean first
Your bumhole
Not wrong, and done.
Followed by washing my hands, applying some peroxide to the cat, removing bloody streaks from sink and floor, changing some towels, washing hands again… and I’m done for the night. Rest of walls and floor can wait, towels ready for the washing machine.
Now back to bed, to dream about it, for sure.
And reddit is restoring the deleted comments as we speak. There is another thread catching detailing it, not surprising after spez altered comments in the past and admitted it.
As long as Power Delete Suite can keep editing the comments, I’m fine with them trying to restore them, we can play that game. If they stop that, we’ll see how they respond to a GDPR removal request, I have several GDPR exports listing all I want deleted.
I like it here at Lemmy. Here one can actually have conversations. Oh, and there are no nazis here.
Unfortunately I have been spending the same time online as I would have with reddit.
I’ve interacted with communities here for some of my interests that I hadn’t really interacted much with on reddit due to my primary interests being more niche and having a slower rate of content generation.
It’s kind of good and kind of bad though. Some communities for things I care about are full of people who are dogmatic to the point of being actively stupid. But I do like thinking about the ideas and topics of those communities, and discussing flawed ideologies within a particular community is probably worthwhile and necessary.
Lemmy has more content.
I’m finding myself reevaluating my use of the internet, looking to find more meaningful things to spend my time on. I only miss one subreddit that I haven’t found here, but I’m also looking for specialty forums to interact on, as well. So maybe I will find that on one of those. (I don’t have the time to moderate a community here, so I’m not starting one).
I’m also looking at my technology, where laptop technology is going these days (crap), and considering if I want to go back to the “good ole days” of just having a desktop machine.
So, some good things, I think.
