- Get bored.
- Open Reddit.
- Remember I’m not using reddit today.
- Open Lemmy.
- Go do something else.
- Go to number 1.
Yeah, same here. Lemmy sort of scratches the itch, but it’s a big itch.
Communities will need time to grow again, but I’m hopeful and cautiously optimistic
Same. It reminds me of the early days of reddit with those small communities. Unless reddit goes back on its changes, more and more people will come here.
We might get some dope 3rd party apps and then we’re golden.
Any time you feel the urge to open reddit, make a post on Lemmy…
It might take a minute, but this will be the new exciting place if we keep at it.
I have had Reddit is Fun in the home buttons on my phone for the last 10 years. I pulled my phone out of my pocket an muscle memoried Reddit open like 20 times today.
I just switched Jerboa into that spot. It is crazy how much that changed things.
That’s exactly what I did. RiF is still installed on my phone, but right now Jerboa has taken it’s place. I hope /u/talklittle does something with the backend that allows it to work with Lemmy, Kbin, or others.
I on the other hand feel free lol. I have no urge to check reddit and I’m still exploring lemmy. Also it’s just better to go do other things instead of wasting my phone battery just for the sake of wasting time.
Yeah, I’ll admit there is the excitement of having a new toy and figuring out how it all works. That takes away some of the boredom or time I’d be scrolling reddit.
I switched the apps positions. Muscle memmory now takes me to lemmy!
Edit: Spelling
@JackOfAllTraits @gimlithepirate great idea!
I opened it twice today and was met with the ‘Reddit is killing Third-Party Applications’ and remembered I need to keep sticking it to the man.
Very much this. I’ve got an almost automatic habit of opening reddit when I’m bored and don’t have much to do. After a couple of times of seeing that message, I’ve been searching for the lemmy counterparts for my favourite subs. Turns out a lot of them are getting some steam!
Yeah, I’m surprised at how many I’m finding, and how many are already seeing activity.
Same. I just joined like >12h ago, and already there is some activity in channels, that I couldn’t find any discussion on a few hours ago.
ive been spending anywhere from 1-4 hours a day on reddit for the past…13 years? probably the most ingrained habit i have. Broke that habit as of two days ago. Weirdly enough, its not even that difficult. Its like i just understood that its time to move on, like a breaking point in a toxic relationship.
Only downside so far is having nothing to do during public transit. Not enough hobby specific discussion here yet, everyone keeps babbling about leaving reddit, like i am right now… xd
Find a community that you like here and create post and talk. Only way around reddit for now. Give it a week and it will die down
The blackout is over after tonight, so I guess we’ll see how things go then. I left because rif is shutting down on the 30th, so I figured I might as well cut the cord now. I deleted the app when the first sub I subbed to went dark, and I haven’t looked back. Today is my third full day without it. I haven’t been on Lemmy as much, which is definitely a good thing, lol, but I’m really enjoying it so far. The community seems much more conversational and less offensive. I don’t get offended easily, but when people do it just for the sake of being offensive, I don’t like it, and reddit was full of those people.
I open Reddit way too often. Today I replaced my Reddit shortcut with Lemmy. Jerboa needs some refining but it’ll do for now. Let’s give it a go!
I just noticed that I was 2 versions out of date (installed via F-Droid last week) and was annoyed at some usability bugs. The latest version seems nicer so far.
I’m interested in getting involved in development of Jerboa, so hopefully I find a few more annoying things that haven’t been fixed yet. Feel free to complain to me to hopefully motivate me to actually fire up Android Studio and get working on it.
Well here you go :-) I can’t scroll “Look and feel” settings in Jerboa. It just hovers the labels instead of scrolling down.
Hmm, I had a similar problem earlier with the “<user> settings” for default listing type (wanted to default to only stuff I’ve subscribed to), and then I reinstalled from Google Play (v0.0.33) and it worked. I’ll see if I can reproduce it on the latest code.
The main thing that bothers me right now is that sometimes it forgets I’m signed in when switching apps. I’m going to try reproducing that probably tonight to see if I can at least provide a workaround (e.g. pull to refresh should reconnect or something).
I’ve commented once already that I hope the influx of new users helps the development of Jerboa and/or encourages other developers to build on Lemmy.
It would be nice seeing Lemmy is Fun/Boost for Lemmy/Sync for Lemmy clones popping up.
