reddit is shit and makes me annoyed, twitter is shit and makes me annoyed, tiktok is shit and makes me annoyed, pure news sites are boring, cracked is dead, google doesn’t work anymore, lemmy is only memes and news and fairly slow
i feel like i used to be able to sink into an activity on this machine, but now i just spend 5 minutes somewhere, the algorithm runs out of content, i get annoyed and go somewhere else, same process happens. i feel like i have amnesia, i used to enjoy this but i have no idea how.
Sounds like you need to go outside m8. Try doing something new. Maybe do something good for yourself, like exercising or reading a book.
Also you can block the meme comms and the news comms that don’t interest you and then your feed might have some more interesting posts.
While this is good advice in theory the unfortunate truth is if you block all the memes and news you’re going to get like 1 new post a day. Lemmy is mostly memes and politics and Linux right now. We just don’t have the population density such that the 28 English-speaking turtle breeders in the world can find each other in a community (or whatever else your hobby is). We’re already struggling to fill content for relatively popular video games, for example, I’ve been subbed to the Deep Rock Galactic communities since day one but I’ve only ever seen like, two posts in those communities, ever, and both of them were within the past week. (I am well aware of the irony of myself, who has never posted content a day in his life, complaining about a lack of content - I’m more of a comments kind of guy, always have been. I won’t go against my nature to post trash memes to communities that I want to see flourish. But I will vote up your trash memes if you want to post some.)
Point being, long story short, et al, etc. - Lemmy needs more users interested in posting more things than just memes and politics and Linux if we want to have an environment containing more than memes and politics and Linux. The future starts with YOU - and if not you then the next guy down the line, and so on until we run out of people with anything to say.
Anyway, I am quite stoned and must be on my way; my people need me. Adiós, amigo, until next time.
you’re going to get like 1 new post a day.
Huh, I hardly disagree, I barely follow news communities, no meme communities at all and still get a fairly fresh feed daily.
I follow 893, communities though.
@kratoz29 @skulblaka I hate to be that guy but your double negative threw me for a loop.
I think “I hardly agree” fits better here?I think “strongly disagree” is a better way to express it 😅
There are definitely growing pains here, it’s the same problem Reddit has with people posting the same thing in multiple different communities, I don’t want to block them, because they’re communities that I’m interested in, it’s just the same repeated stuff, which gets annoying.
I blocked the main politics subs because it was nothing but Trump posts (I’m American, so it’s been like 8 years of hearing about this asshole on a nearly daily basis). The new annoyance is the constant posts in multiple communities about the Israel/Palestine conflict. I get that it’s a hot issue, and a lot of people care about it, but I really don’t and I’d rather not see stuff about it every freaking day.
It would be great if there was some sort of keyword filter for the c/All or even your subbed communities where you can filter out keywords so it’s not an endless stream of the same shit. Another example is posts about the Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator getting the ax, it’s like “I know this happened, I don’t need to see posts about it in 5 different communities”.
Like the others, I disagree. I’ve block hundreds of communities and my feed is good.
It’s just an arduous process of blocking tens of communities a day. Some of the stuff you just generally don’t want to see, I created a porn account and went on the LemmyNSFW server and I could have definitely used some eye bleach after that: Chicks with dicks, hardcore BDSM, furry porn, hentai, tentacle porn, tons of dicks (I’m a straight guy), etc…
I had to stop after about 10 minutes and just went back to my Reddit porn account.
I didn’t find it so bad. I knew it would taper off. I didn’t see it as a chore. And it was worth it.
if you block all the memes and news you’re going to get like 1 new post a day
I have blocked most meme comms and all US news/politics comms (I’m not in the US so not so relevant to me) and I definitely still see a good amount of posts. So I don’t agree with this.
Unfortunately/Fortunately that’s the audience that lemmy appeals most to. Personally, that’s (more or less) what I want from a community
So they end up learning about Linux :D. j/k.
I would also take a look at new instead of hot within the filter. You end up seeing a lot of cool stuff people are posting.
Download and distribute Nintendo emulators and roms.
I understand the reference.
I’ve embraced this and started reading more books and taking my health and passions more seriously. I’ve even ditched my Apple Watch and have found other ways to declutter and minimize my digital lifestyle. It’s genuinely freeing and feels fantastic.
Me too, when I left reddit I took up ebooks and hadn’t seriously read things since I was in high school. It’s been great!
Same here! Been reading/listening to audiobooks since I left reddit. Found any new favorites?
Well, I haven’t been doing audiobooks, just ebooks, but a few I’ve enjoyed was finally reading Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Masters of Doom (all about id Software and their early days) and the last one People Who Eat Darkness, which is a journalistic book about a murder in Japan, really well written and researched, really complex and interesting.
dungeon craler carl is hilarious.
You can checkout the Cradle Series
Used to be reddit. I’m here now because I can’t be on reddit anymore, but this place (maybe thankfully) just isn’t the abyss to suck me into, so now, my online time is mostly on discord
I’m not counting videogames. Though I do play some online stuff, I don’t consider it the same as something like browsing a website. It’s a different activity. If you do count it, then yeah, it’s games. My computer time is largely games
This is so true. I try to explain this to my wife and she doesn’t understand.
If I’m on my phone I’m either:
- Answering endless Teams chats or emails (I get work messages well outside of normal business hours because of my job—it’s annoying but I’ve also gotten used to it because we basically do everything async)
- Doom scrolling
I hate social media. I’ve hated Reddit since API. Lemmy is great but I’ll go days sometimes with the same home page. So I basically cycle through the same 3 sites endlessly. I got a Steam Deck to try and help with this, but when I hop on it my wife thinks I’m “playing video games so should be working on something.” I’ve tried to explain that using a Steam Deck is the equivalent of her scrolling social media, but alas.
So yeah. Basically nothing to do these days. I think the most frustrating part to me is how most content seems to be geared towards making me angry. I never remember it being like that.
Discord communities, youtube for content I enjoy, lemmy, checking tumblr and mastodon.
I used to say that “Once I leave Reddit I’ll have more time for my hobbies instead of looking at a screen about my hobbies” but I realized that:
- One website’s existence doesn’t solve or prevent a problem of my brain chemistry
- I already have a lot of hobbies and reddit introduced me to some, and most of those are offline.
I think the fact that Reddit imploded is good, it gave me an excuse to leave a site that I hated more than I enjoyed being part of it, for lots of reasons.
If you have that lying around, play that freaking game you left on your steam library for later. While playing this game, limit/cut all your accesses to these social platforms that makes you turn in circles.
Also do invite old friends or loved ones, at least on discord, talking with real humans sometimes could help you disconnect from these ragebait worlds.
I recently put together a small discord server (maybe a dozen or so people) with some internet friends I met on IRC and Slack back in the day. It’s been lovely getting the gang back together after most of a decade of silence, I’m enjoying catching up with everyone very very much. Highly recommend, it’s been great for my recent mental health, and reportedly so for a couple other folks in the group as well.
I spend a lot of time on Lemmy, sorted by Top>Day or whatever, which seems to provide mostly fresh stuff every morning. I’m on Telegram being an attention whore in my local art community/fandom/convention planning spaces. I browse art on websites, and Google like a madman in relation to my broken project car that I’m trying to restore. I am big into Outer Wilds, and was spending a lot of time on that up until recently. YouTube for offroad recovery videos (Trail Mater and Matt’s Offroad Recovery), which is silly because I don’t like offloading. It is fun to see the physics/mechanical aspect of how big truck recoveries work
I like to work with artists from Europe, so sometimes I spend inordinate amounts of time trying to track people down on Russian Google/Facebook (Yandex/VK) haha
Can you recommend some good art sites? I’ve been really enjoying Pixelfed.
I’m reading more and watching movies way more. I LOVE movies. Sometimes in the 2010s I completely lost the ability to watch movie without being on my phone. My goal is to change that
I’m movie and tv junkie too .
I distinctly remember a brain glitch developing in my head circa 1992 when I no longer had the attention span for movies.
I guess you had accumulated enough environmental toxins by then:
That’s interesting. Is there anything we can do against it?
My answer to “What’s the best way to detox from heavy metals?” on Quora
Cleaning it out won’t repair any permanent damage. Still, fairly safe, easy, and cheap, so I tried. My gut inflammation has healed, but I did many other changes in the same time.
Honestly I have more IRL hobbies now.
I await death, that’s what I do
Other than reading webcomics and webserials, I don’t spend a lot of time online these days. I check lemmy and reddit for about ten minutes each two or three times a day.
But increasingly I play local multiplayer games with my kids and read ebooks offline.
Same, I kinda like it. I’m rediscovering what I did before I got addicted to social sites without realizing that’s what happened. Turns out I still enjoy movies and books!
I moved to a city where it’s always warm, and sunny a lot so I’m outside a lot more now, just walking around or sun bathing. I’m also going to the gym regularly for once in my life haha
Most of the time I spend on my computer isn’t browsing the web, but doing other stuff like modding Skyrim, playing other games, etc…
I’ve been doing more stuff offline these days. I’ve been making music that about 10% of people actually like, which is a pretty decent ratio, I think ( https://songwhip.com/thethreeleonards ). between music and board-gaming and TV the hours fill up.
I’ve been on The Internet since 1995. I, too, used to enjoy this. There is enjoyment to be found, but most of that is in finding people I can sincerely connect with, which is difficult. Treating The Internet like it’s the Mirror Of Erised is not the way to happiness.
Podcasts mostly. Lemmy is ok, but it lacks the content Reddit once had.
