Curing instagram addiction is easy. Just unfollow everyone you don’t know in person. Cut my instagram time from ~2h/day to 5 minutes every other day
For real. I miss the old Reddit. I recently took a digital walk down memory lane and found my first reddit link from 2007!
Good times. I miss Aaron Swartz too. Knowledge is power and he sacrificed himself for freeing knowledge.
Reddit to me is the digital Kowloon Walled City. Crazy place where you can find anything but also needs to be demolished.
The people here seem much nicer...for the moment.
There was more shitty behavior than normal for a bit, but it's really calming down again. The vibe here is much more relaxed and accepting.
I agree! I've been wasting time on reddit since 2008 or so, to the point that now and then I'd block it on my router to avoid going there from habit. Not all bad of course, but it's been increasingly futile and counterproductive in the past few years.
I've never used third party apps, but I stopped going there when it became clear the management has zero respect for the userbase.
The thing is, literally all big tech companies also have zero respect for their userbase but people keep using Google, Meta, Insta and all those things.
I think us geeks have started to move away from it more and more, but the majority couldn't care less.
I gave up on facebook, twitter and instagram years ago, but just because I did of course doesn't mean everyone else did. I ended up replacing them with nothing... more reddit, I suppose, but it doesn't fulfill the precise same purposes.
It's heartening that finally significant amounts of people are moving to alternatives because the alternatives do exist now. When people were ticked off with reddit in the past, your choice was pretty much... fuck off, i guess. Same for Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and IG. At least there are good alternatives to Twitter and Reddit now. They don't need to be huge, merely big enough.
I also don't have reddit addiction syndrome anymore.
Now I have Lemmy Addiction Syndrome...
It's called Fediverse Addiction Syndrome
Nah, only Lemmy. I don't like the Mastodon system where you follow users instead of communities. Like why would I want to follow some random internet strangers I don't know, instead of an actual community of people with similar interests to have a meaningful discussion with? Any Twitter-like system where you follow users is just not my type of platform to use.
Much easier to search for "Technology" and have a full community instead of finding a Mastodon User equivalent of LinusTechTips, which is just one person. I'd have to search for every tech person to get all the tech stuff. I prefer just one community for everything.
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