Hadn’t realized how reliant upon Reddit I’d become for news and interesting things until after it turned to shit and I quit it. I’ve rediscovered RSS for ex., using reader apps to scan sources directly and read without all the noise—that actually came from someone’s recommendation here in the comments. I’ve found several new sites with deep, knowledgeable articles and discussions, like https://theconversation.com/us (free! No ads! Also discovered through the comments here), and my engagement with articles and their sources has gone WAY up. I’ve stopped reading garbage comment sections, too, and I’m just feeling better mentally as a result, disengaging from the endless, low effort memes/jokes and the mean, toxic comments*. Anyone else?

(Thanks again, admins—really enjoying and appreciating how Beehaw is run!)

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Honestly? No. I like Beehaw. But it’s less convenient, with less content. I would rather stop using Reddit, but ultimately I’m just doing the same stuff here that I was there. Then again, I saw little toxicity in the subreddits I was in. Also, adult content is far less accesible.

Again though, I’m pretty happy with Beehaw/Lemmy. I’m sure they will only improve with time.

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Same here. The lack of content is noticeable and it sucks that I have to participate instead of lurking. 😅

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I’ve noticed I’m spending more time looking at content that I actually want to engage with.

I’ve also been on a huge FOSS hyper-fixation for the past week after replacing reddit with Lemmy. I’ve stopped using Youtube in favour of an open-source front end (Piped), I finally ditched Windows as my main OS and set up EndeavourOS, found an open-source Spotify front-end for desktop (psst) as well as an alternative for mobile (ViMusic).

If anyone has any other open-source software to recommend, hit me up!

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For email, Thunderbird has done a complete re-write, and it’s excellent: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/beta/

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AntennaPod - my favorite app for podcasts.

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If you’re on Android, take a look at f-droid. Kind of like Google Play Store, but for FOSS.

Ive been using Unraid (not FOSS), and there are a Ton of FOSS containers that I play around with all the time. I have one for budgeting, hosting a website, updating Dynamic DNS (website), and a whole bunch of others.

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Ummm…

I too have (now) found the new front end! Woot woot!

And now I need to check out ViMusic…

You bad person who has taken more of my time! Thanks 😀

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Oh bugger. Vimusic is not Spotify:(

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I’d recommend Joplin for notes!

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I love it when I’m already using something open source without even knowing it’s open source! Joplin is a great recommendation, I’ve always struggled finding note taking apps that strike a good balance between power and convenience.

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Wow thank you for the vimusic recommendation. And available on f-droid, perfect.

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Antennapod for podcasts!

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Oh definitely, looking back I did a lot of doom scrolling and I didn’t realize how much it was affecting me. So happy to be off or Reddit

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Yeah so did I. Somehow I got a kick / dopamin rush when reading /r/all and all the negative posts there. Glad to be gone!

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Yes, Reddit was another corporate tool to make us addicted to.

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We need webrings brought back

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I mean, instances federating against each other is sorta webrings but on steroids right

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Please sign my guestbook

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There are a lot of people who agree with you! Here is a list of 64 modern webrings if you like to peek at random personal homepages or niche projects: https://sadgrl.online/cyberspace/webrings

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I love how they stuck with the 90s design

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Ha, there’s a Tilde webring. That’s like a jet powered Wright Brothers glider.

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What I liked about Reddit was the balance of content and community. There’s nothing on the Internet that hits the same balance for me. Lemmy feels like the early days of Reddit, in that way it’s refreshing. But I miss being able to read through dozens of comments.

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Not sure if 2011 counts as early days or Reddit, but yeah this feels like that. I’m glad that I’m spending less time scrolling, and more time reading books, articles, and comics. But I do miss the endless stream of content, and putting ‘site:reddit.com’ in my Google searches.

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Same herd, however as there are less comments I feel more interested into writing comments, instead of reading.

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