I joined Lemmy and immediately felt out of place and a little lost.
Anyway, I've been here a month and, to make sure I fit in, I've installed Linux and joined the communist party.
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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How's that working out for you?
None of my videogames work anymore but on the bright side, I now realise they are just an opiate of the masses employed by the bourgeoisie to stop me from seizing the means of production.
Boots quick though.
"our" video games...
Oh so that's why when I played farming sim none of the crops grew.
I don't know about you, but I struggle with finding games that don't work on linux these days. It's mainly just a subset of online games with anti-cheat. When I buy new games I don't even think about it these days, I just assume they will work.
...to stop me from seizing the ~~means~~ memes of production.
You probably already have, but if you’ve not yet check out Wine and Proton, I’ve seen numerous guides on setting up a Linux gaming rig that runs Windows games.
I have a Steam Deck - Proton really does work as well as advertised (for the games I like)
I doom scroll far less.
I comment more and have better discussion.
I feel more at home, but I was always on the geeky subreddits with a FOSS bent anyway.
I doom scroll far less. I comment more and have better discussion.
Same here. I had like a single-digit comment count on Reddit because it seemed like anything I had to say was either chucked straight into the garbage bin of buried threads that never took off, or lost in a sea of thousands of similar comments. I've posted more here in a few weeks than 10+ years on Reddit. It feels like there is at least ROOM for conversations here instead of just bickering or meme comment chains.
I feel so much more positive about having conversations on the internet now.
Things have actually gotten worse for me. With how crappy Reddit has been over the last few years in terms of how engaging my feed is, I've been spending less time on it naturally. Now on Lemmy I find myself addicted again, spending 3 hours in a row some days, after having already used it throughout the day. I'm thinking about giving up Lemmy and Reddit all together, wondering if my comments are even valuable to society and what not. I think maybe I'd be happier without either. Not saying you would be, or that others shouldn't be on Lemmy, just that I personally struggle with it and it interferes with my life sometimes.
This. Many people feel good about themselves for using lemmy, but not using big tech software doesn’t mean you’re doing better than before.
Social media remains social media and still is a huge time waster and a detriment to your attention span
Though I try to be more lenient on this view because not long ago I was reminded of the benefits of moderate social media use.
Thanks to Reddit nuking itself I am now spending 6 more hours a day writing code (I'm the developer of Summit for Lemmy) :D
Far fewer assholes to mod, more time spent reading and biking, less stress.
I like it here at Lemmy. Here one can actually have conversations. Oh, and there are no nazis here.
Unfortunately I have been spending the same time online as I would have with reddit.
My life hasn't improved, I still doom scroll on Lemmy.
I'm watching less porn...
More time to read novels before bed.
So I’m brand new here by a few days. I was banned from Reddit entirely after forgetting what account I was on and commenting in a fallout sub I wan banned from. The mod from said fallout sub refused to believe this was an accident, (I thought I was in a completely different fallout sub with a similar icon) said my appeals were considered “argumentative”and pulled the “I’m also an admin” card. Now every account I make gets perma-banned from all of Reddit within 6 hours of being made. Kills me. It’s more a deep void to me not because I just can’t use it considering the mindless monotony of most subs, but because I like to create and my sole platform to share anything I make was ripped from me by some neckbeard that was given a smidgen of power. Still, I never answered your question so; it hasn’t. Yet. I just found lemmy and am hoping it’ll be a great place to fill that void but only time will tell.
I was making virtual machines to get around the blocks, for a long time until the third party apps were killed and lemmy took off. Feels nice here, porn is lacking.
I never really used Reddit, but I'm happy that they absolutely destroyed it since I enjoy using Lemmy more.
It hasn't.
I left Reddit, no improvement.
Reddit banned me, ignoring their own rules, no improvement.
I appealed, so they permabanned me for repeated offense, still no improvement.
I blanked all my Reddit history... some fleeting improvement, but it didn't last.
I'm writing this on Lemmy, while taking a dump at 4am next to a bleeding cat who's made a mess of the bathroom, thinking which part to clean first... still no improvement.
Reddit wasn't as important to my life, it didn't have a real impact on it. Life has an impact on life.
I'm done now, I pooped... slight improvement.
Hoping to poop tomorrow.
which part to clean first
Your bumhole
And reddit is restoring the deleted comments as we speak. There is another thread catching detailing it, not surprising after spez altered comments in the past and admitted it.
As long as Power Delete Suite can keep editing the comments, I'm fine with them trying to restore them, we can play that game. If they stop that, we'll see how they respond to a GDPR removal request, I have several GDPR exports listing all I want deleted.
I've been reading a lot more and texting friends instead of doomscrolling. Lemmy is kind of a methadone. It scratches the itch sometimes but the content is kinda crap from what I've seen so I don't spend nearly as much time on it.
Yeah content will get better, we just need to populate it more, also no algorithm to keep you engaged.
Lemmy has more content.