I get bored online way easier now that I've cut out reddit

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and using lemmy feels like starting a car in the 1910s by hand cranking the engine. ie i like it but it's a pain

i got into twitter more, but i'm trying to not engage with the stupid shit that i know is just written to drive me insane

i also, a few times, reflected off the boredom and done something productive; made spreadsheets or installed a video game [i am physically unable to get into gaming for some reason]

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Relatable. I was relieved I wouldn't be doomscrolling anymore. Then i found Lemmy, which works as a doomscroll sometimes, ut also goes down or goes slow randomly, forcing me to do something else.

I've found that I'm also browsing (old-school) forums now to fill the time.

The slowness is healthier, in a way. I’m reading a lot more articles than I did on Reddit, and I’m no longer a lurker.

With apps like Voyager and Memmy I’m cautiously optimistic, a few hiccups with instances going down notwithstanding.

There's bound to be hiccups with the instance system, but I like that Lemmy has given me the power to host my own. It was honestly really satisfying to get it working and deployed on production hardware, and I wouldn't have gotten that experience if I had just stuck to Reddit.

Ive been jumping back and forth between lemmy and 4chan.

4chan isn't better lol

Eh, I dont mind 4chan. I used to lurk /a/ and /v/ back when Moot was still running the place. I left for reddit sometime 10 years ago when things kinda started getting stale.

I swear people on 4chan speak a different language. I can never follow what’s going on on that site and it makes me feel like a dirty diaper trying to decipher their hyper-online dialect.

makes me feel like a dirty diaper trying to decipher their hyper-online dialect

Calm doon, Eminem