I posted a few weeks ago about how I didn’t feel like quitting reddit just yet. and, honestly, I still have a hard time not opening my phone every five minutes to check it.
but I decided to quit because I realized how much of a negative echo chamber it was. I couldn’t even mute certain words on the reddit app so I had to keep seeing the same shit over and over again in the popular feed.
it’ll be a long road moving from one platform to another, but I’m pretty satisfied not being strangled by reddit’s overwhelming snark and negativity.
dunno if anyone here feels a similar way, but felt like sharing my thoughts.
What helped me and my phone habits was the loss of Apollo during the API fiasco, and the immediate emergence of voyager, allowing me to simply replace the “check reddit feed” habit with “check lemmy feed”.
Plus, since lemmy is less algorithms (and users) there isn’t much urge to doomscroll.
I am on Lemmy only now because of the Luigi censorship, but I used Narwhal on Reddit since before the API fiasco and after I was happy to pay for Narwhal to keep the increasing enshittification at bay. Now I use Apollo with Lemmy and it is like the old days on Reddit, and very similar to the Narwhal experience, but with less content. We all just have to make the posts and feel assured that we will not be overrun by bots and corporate overlords.