I’m now mostly past the muscle memory of instantly opening Reddit any time I’m not actively busy.
Lemmy isn’t ready to fill the hole that has left. But honestly as it stands I’m not sure that I want to fill that hole. It would probably be better for my mental health, concentration, social life and many other things if I could successfully leverage this moment to become a whole lot less of an online person.
I feel like Reddit had improved me a lot in other ways. It taught me a lot about the experiences of demographics that I don’t deal with frequently, learned a lot of guitar, apps, shows, science, cooking, lawncare, etc, etc.
I used it to consume jokes and entertainment and stuff sure, but it also was my entry point into a lot of topics and really jump-started my ingestion of that information in a way that would be hard to replicate on any platform without a similar scale of adoption.
All the negative aspects of using electronics still applied, but I was getting a lot of positive results that I’ll miss now.
I think reddit changed a lot in the last 10 years. It went from lots of small unique communities where there was really good discussion to everywhere kind of just being an echo chamber where if you disagreed you were just down voted out of the discussion rather than being able to just talk about your different points of view.
I already read a fair amount. 2022 I averaged something like 118 pages per day averaged out of the year. So far in 2023 I’ve averaged a more sustainable 50 pages per day.
So not being on reddit isn’t likely to influence my reading that much.
I’m undecided at the moment.
I’m now mostly past the muscle memory of instantly opening Reddit any time I’m not actively busy.
Lemmy isn’t ready to fill the hole that has left. But honestly as it stands I’m not sure that I want to fill that hole. It would probably be better for my mental health, concentration, social life and many other things if I could successfully leverage this moment to become a whole lot less of an online person.
I feel like Reddit had improved me a lot in other ways. It taught me a lot about the experiences of demographics that I don’t deal with frequently, learned a lot of guitar, apps, shows, science, cooking, lawncare, etc, etc.
I used it to consume jokes and entertainment and stuff sure, but it also was my entry point into a lot of topics and really jump-started my ingestion of that information in a way that would be hard to replicate on any platform without a similar scale of adoption.
All the negative aspects of using electronics still applied, but I was getting a lot of positive results that I’ll miss now.
I think reddit changed a lot in the last 10 years. It went from lots of small unique communities where there was really good discussion to everywhere kind of just being an echo chamber where if you disagreed you were just down voted out of the discussion rather than being able to just talk about your different points of view.
books are pretty cool
I already read a fair amount. 2022 I averaged something like 118 pages per day averaged out of the year. So far in 2023 I’ve averaged a more sustainable 50 pages per day.
So not being on reddit isn’t likely to influence my reading that much.