• mvu@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 years ago

    I got you

    • add ebook reader app to phone
    • download ebooks
    • pretend ebooks are long-form Reddit posts
    • become well-read while wasting time

    If you can’t read, download picture ebooks instead

      • gkd@lemmy.ml
        0·
        2 years ago

        Let me know any issues you run into or ideas you have! Will keep you guys all up to date

        Doing my part 🫡

        • BioMando@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 years ago

          Consider, if you haven’t already, creating a community for discussions about the app!

  • narwhal@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m actually spending more time on lemmy, hacker news, and (gasp) 9gag as well now.

    • HerculeanTardigrade@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Haven’t been to 9gag since a decade ago. When I was still a teenager, I used to be addicted with 9gag. Young me found le comics so entertaining and funny. It was so addicting doom scrolling on 9gag.

      When you see it, you’ll shit brix.

    • Gerryflap@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 years ago

      Yeah I did the same with Jerboa a few days ago. I keep clicking it, and it’s actually building the “good” habit of using Lemmy instead of reddit. There’s less content here though, but maybe that’s a blessing in disguise. Filling the “mindless scrolling of the internet” time with something useful should be my actual goal. So having less stuff to browse might help with that.

  • donnnnnb@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 years ago

    Try an RSS aggregator app like Feedly and add all your favorite topics/sites. I filled mine up with web comics, car blogs and tech stuff. Also been getting into NPR lately, lots of interesting stuff and less of a focus on politics.

    • msdos622@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      That’s what I did at first. But for me the beauty of reddit isn’t with the post themselves, it’s in the comments.

  • Draksis@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Deleted Reddit and Twitter same day, I’m bored for sure but it’s kind of insane how addicted to information I am. Trying to break it is hard.

  • deroverda@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been thinking of deleting my Reddit account but haven’t gone through with it. This post motivated me enough to at least delete my Reddit app (slide for iOS). So many wasted hours I’ve been spending on that app just mindlessly scrolling like a robot.

    Now to my next addiction: watching YouTube videos which won’t make me smarter (gaming content) on my phone.

    • Unimpressionabletug@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      Now to my next addiction: watching YouTube videos which won’t make me smarter (gaming content) on my phone.

      Are you me?

      Jokes aside, I use(d) Apollo for my mindless scrolling of the internet. One feature that I loved was the option to turn off endless scrolling. You would reach an end and have to click to continue scrolling. Often I found myself on my phone without realising, and that feature managed to break me out of it each time.

      • deroverda@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        Hehe who knows? Brother or sister from a different mother.

        Cool feature, wish slide had that feature. So how do you deal with spending hours watching YouTube videos? The thing about YouTube is that you don’t need an app. You just enter YouTube in your web browser. Avoiding logging in to that site will require a huge amount of self-restraint and since I’ve got an addiction personality that isn’t easy.

    • malamignasanmig@group.lt
      0·
      2 years ago

      slide (ios) has the best interface among the foss 3rd party apps for reddit. was surprised that it looked different in android so i used infinity there, which isnt as nice.

  • aragon@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Jerboa has been good so far. Somehow the discussions on lemmy feels more engaging than on reddit. Might be because there are no bots regurgiating comments. But the lack of my favourite subreddits have helped my phone addiction 😂 Hopefully this will be rectified soon 😉

  • LostCause@lemmy.ml
    0·
    2 years ago

    I went traditional and am reading books more and now I‘m also hanging out here. Excited to explore Lemmy a bit with all of you.