other than landing on reddit a few times from searches I haven’t gone on reddit at all. I really miss a few communities, but I think it’s best to pull off the bandaid now.
I use both kbin and reddit every day for now, I have a number of subscriptions on each. I'll drop reddit if the kbin/lemmy gets some more growth. I also follow some people and hashtags on Mastodon, I don't use Twitter.
As for the other question I use my phone around 20-30min a day in total, mostly for 2FA and answering the door and the odd call.
I'm on kbin instead of lemmy, but yeah, like others here, I mostly only land on reddit through googling stuff.
I do miss some of the more niche communities, but the fediverse is serving as a good time waster / read-stuff-at-breakfast site.
The whole reddit debacle actually caused me to re-think my use of sites like these and my overall usage is down. reddit was a little TOO fun/addictive.
The admins permanently banned me after 12 years because I said the politics mods suck and told the story of being banned from that sub permanently for saying "only a fool links an opinion as evidence.". They called that harassment and upheld the ban even after appeal. Fuck Reddit, I don't use the site anymore. Lemmy is not a real replacement but hopefully it gets there eventually.
I ditched reddit on the blackout weekend, and have only been back as a result of google search results. A combination of kbin, tildes, and mastodon has replaced it for me.
I think I’ve visited Reddit’s homepage (not via Google) twice since I setup Kbin and Lemmy accounts and they were both to find out how a group of people I rarely interact with live their lives:
When Trump got indicted for the coup, I checked out some right wing subreddits to see if they were taking it in stride or were gonna be goons about it.
Taylor Swift announced multiple shows in my city and I was trying to figure out if Swifties travel like jam band fans or what. (My office is basically next to the arena and I have no idea how hard Swifties go.)
Total usage of all these sites as plummeted for me. I used to spend maybe a hour on Reddit each day. Now it's down to like 30 minutes. And that's scattered to something like a few minutes here and there across the whole day.
My screen time is always borked because iOS won't let uploads happen in the background/when the screen sleeps, and some genius in Cupertino thinks 6 auto-lock options ranging from 30 seconds to 5 minutes, plus never, is somehow better than a simple slider or spinny-wheel thing that lets me choose, so most of the time my auto-lock is set to never and whatever was on my screen when the upload finished gets 6 hours of "screen time" for that day.
That's said, Memmy is commanding a pretty good chunk of my leisure time. I'd tell you how much I was on reddit, but I don't have their app so it's near-zero on my phone, lost in browser time.
Lemmy has almost completely replaced reddit for me.
There are a handful of subs I still visit because the equivalent communities here either don’t exist or are near dead. I’ve refused to install the reddit app though and found Geddit which doesn’t use their API. I just lurk so it works out for me.
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