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.
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!
Facebook, Voyager, Google News with a daily 30 minute limit for each.
YouTube with no limit but usually multitasking.
Email, whatsapp, other work stuff.
Podcasts sometimes while driving / working.
ABC listen sometimes while driving / working.
YouTube and video game lore. Warhammer lore is extensive.
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 😅
Unfortunately/Fortunately that’s the audience that lemmy appeals most to. Personally, that’s (more or less) what I want from a community
Like the others, I disagree. I’ve block hundreds of communities and my feed is good.
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.
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?
dungeon craler carl is hilarious.
Podcasts mostly. Lemmy is ok, but it lacks the content Reddit once had.
I mostly just read things on Mastodon, Lemmy and Bluesky, even though I didn’t really do much social media in the before times. Actually got in touch with a side of myself I’ve been neglecting for a while, I guess. However, I’ve also learned that I’m not the kind of person that can deal with people online being sad, which is a problem on leftist social media where everyone is suffering. I should really touch grass or something.
Other than that, I’ve been gaming and trying to talk with friends over Discord (nobody is online much nowadays. ;_;).
Lemmy, YouTube. There’s so many good videos on YouTube that I don’t have time to watch. Searching up how to do something online. There’s always some Linux programs I don’t know to use. Currently I am also watching The Computer Chronicles on archive.org. There’s also some sort of hidden parts of online you may not be realizing are there, though I haven’t spent basically any time there yet. For example Gopherspace. Gopher is an old protocol that used to compete with HTTP. It still has some people using it, just for fun. Of course, you won’t just find those gopher holes as the protocol isn’t supported by modern browsers. You can use Lynx.
You can use Veronica 2 search engine here: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/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 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.
I’m movie and tv junkie too .
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
I bounce around from here to YouTube to checking my email to playing with my collection of spreadsheets.
Boune between here Twitter and Facebook ik ik Thats only if I don’t have access to my computer then i tend to watch yt and shows or game
Also do a lot of reading
I am on lemmy most of the time but i also watch ton of movies and shows
I’m listening to a 44 hour audio book on YouTube.
That sounds interesting…
Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton, which is book 2. Book 1 in the series is Pandora’s Star.
Space opera.
I spend a lot of time with YouTube running while I work. For reading the news I have RSS feeds that I’ve accumulated from sites that I like. I spend a lot of time on Lemmy and Mastodon.
I don’t use search as much anymore, cause often when I’m searching for a solution my results are more accurate using Chat GPT (and more and more local LLMs).
The internet is changing and that’s okay.
