Once I was able to find the volume of content I needed to be able to find something relatively new to interact with any time I had 5 minutes to kill at work, that was it for Reddit and FB. It turns out that all I want is to hit the button and get the pellet, just like Skinner’s rats.
it was easy. I never had any social media.
You just gave me memories of childhood when all we had was forums. Those were the days.
And MSN Messenger. 😂
I spent most of my teens on the Flixster forums, if anyone remembers that movie site!
I grew up in the Moroccan deserts, so all we had was the Spacetoon website. Yeah, it still takes forever for it to load.
Replacing reddit with Lemmy was pretty easy for me. Finding an alternative for Facenook and Instagram mifgt be harder though. I’d love to see an alternative to youtube too
Once I figured out how to make lemmy look a lot like what I was getting from Reddit and HN, I haven’t been back to either. Now I have a single RSS feed in my reader to my personal Subscribed/Active page. The RSS link you can get from your instances website while logged in includes some kind of ID to your personal feed so there’s no authentication needed and I never have to change anything there, if I join a new community, it starts showing up in my RSS reader, if I unjoin, it goes away. It’s quite glorious. I’ve found good/active enough communities to replace what I followed at the old places and the comments sections are far less flooded with nonsense.
I’m on Mastodon a bit, and I do really like it, but it wasn’t a replacement for me, I was off Twitter and the like for about 7 years already when I decided to try it.
RSS was all I could’ve ever asked for back then. And then it was gone.
Reddit and HN still have RSS. Are you referring to other sites? I quit all the other ones long ago.
Not difficult at all.
Left Facebook in 2016, Left Instagram in 2017, Left Snapchat in 2018, Left twitch in 2021, Left Twitter in 2022, Left Reddit in 2023.
I could walk away from tiktok at any moment.
Do it now! That shit is cancer for you privacy
You’re making great progress.
Impressed that you’re still on digg and stumbleupon.
Gotta have a place to leave lists of their IRC servers
I can quit any time. I already quit 6 times.
I didn’t feel the need to abandon them because I don’t mindlessly scroll them. Well, I guess I did for reddit but I stopped that easily enough by substituting for Lemmy. And since Lemmy is kinda barren right now besides the front page I’ve cut way down on phone time. I still use Twitter when I try to get news on something, I use reddit to get random people’s thoughts on a purchase, don’t use Facebook or Instagram at all. Snapchat I just use for a single groupchat.
Cutting down on screen time is never a bad thing to do. I’ve benefited from this as well.
I’ve left better things over lesser issues.
Good for you.
Was kinda weird at first but in hindsight not bad at all.
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Like a lot of other posters, not hard at all. I miss /r/Daddit. I miss /r/Datahoarder but the selfhosted community here is strong and seems to have absorbed some home networking, datahoarder, etc topics.
Daddit is the most fun name if I’ve ever heard one.
Abandoning social media has never been too difficult for me. I deleted all Meta (back then still Facebook) platform accounts after the large phone number leak. I deleted my Twitter account after Musk took over (could foresee the stupidity). I deleted my Reddit account because of the API change announcement.
Make me angry enough and I’ll leave your platform. The platform needs me more than I need it.
Really easy. I assume when you say “social media” website you mean Reddit. Reddit was a website I’d browse to kill time when I was bored to find amusing content. Thanks to their recent policy change and their crappy treatment of their users, I torched my 10+ year old accounts and moved over basically overnight. Plenty of like minded individuals have done the same in the past couple months it seems. The fediverse has reached critical mass.
The core of Reddit were their users and the mods who volunteer their free time to look after the site, and they shat all over them. Killed the golden goose as it were. I’m a little surprised as to how many people (especially mods) are still hanging around over there.
I found an Android app similar to RiF so it wasn’t hard at all. Still testing it out, but it’s very similar and I like trying new things. FWIW the app is Connect.
Leaving was easy.
Using the alternatives is hard.
I agree. I miss Reddit because there is so much more content there, allowing me to scroll longer. Until the user and post count increases here, I feel like I catch up in about five minutes once a day.
I agree, but I must admit a good chunk of my time was spent scrolling past familiar reposts, so to some extent the extra volume of content was a mirage and probably created by bots.
I’m still working on subscribing to a wider variety of pups so I’ll have more popping up in my Subscribed feed, but it’s probably healthier that I’m not here quite so much of the day.
Reddit made it pretty easy to stop - their app is so bad I just don’t bother logging in much.
I still check in a bit as I have a few open dialogues going but I don’t browse it anymore.
Twitter is harder - too many people I follow.
Those are the two apps I used frequently before they both fucked themselves up. Oh, what a weird world we live in.
I guess the enshitification continues.
Yup. At least the twitter app (UI) isn’t as bad as reddit’s. But I’m blocking promoted tweets faster than a game of candy crush. I hope Mastodon takes off - not comfortable with Threads.
Reddit is just unusable - I never really liked Reddit until I found BaconReader. Those days are over. Such is life.
As for lemmy, it needs to mature, but that’ll come. It’s not bad…!
Threads is basically made by a company that already ruined a great social media app. And to see them becoming part of the fediverse is weird. Mastodon is pretty good. I’m planning on signing up for kbin too once an Android client comes along.
About 2 clicks and few fingy taps on the keyboard.
So not too bad, unless you don’t have fingies, might be a bit more difficult.
I love my fingies
