this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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Exactly what the title says. I used to look at Reddit and spend 2+ hours minimum every single day, more on the weekends. Once the API changes were announced and the protest date hit, I decided I would stop using it regardless of what happened moving forward.

I made a lemmy account and I do enjoy posting and reading occasionally, but I don't sink nearly as much time into it as I did with Reddit. After the first couple days where I really had to fight not to look at Reddit (guess it was addictive for me), I started doing other things in my free time to alleviate my boredom. I have read two books, and am starting on another book tomorrow. I have started work on personal projects I put on the back burner and have been making some genuine progress.

I was never a mod, but I feel kind of pathetic admitting this because it's such a meme that Reddit mods/admins haven't seen the sunlight for years. Guess my life was also passing me more than I realized. I don't really have a moral/point here because I know not everyone has as much of an addictive personality as I do, guess I just felt like sharing.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Leaving reddit made me literally touch grass. Guys I went to the park today!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Too hot today. So the pool it is.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where’s the part about grass? Do you mean that it made you touch books? 🤨

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, he meant the grass that he's high on.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Must have forgot to write it down

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hah, fair enough. I was using that more as the generic "go do something that's not just reading Reddit posts on a computer all day". But I have also been hiking!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm allergic to grass. 😒

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mowed my grass roof recently, so touched grass literally. Time to plant some flowers today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see green roofs on commercial buildings around here sometimes but I don't think I've seen one on a private home. Would you recommend it? Does it help keep the house at an even temperature?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I put a thick pond liner on top of corrugated eternite (the asbestos kind) then filled up with hydroculture clay pellets (should have used lava) and put a reasonably thick layer of soil on top of it. Seeded some meadow plants and added irrigation when it's too dry. It insulates in winter, cools down in summer, looks good (yay, flowers) and insects and birds love it. Would definitely recommend, unless your climate is too dry and water is scarce.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For real. I started biking now, its so much fun and i finally look healthy again lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh, now I just TikTok more lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No thanks. It just shows good looking people to folk to hook them in. A dopamine datamining trap. No thanks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never really got into TikTok myself, always just seemed like a worse version of Vine. But I'm also not the target demographic so there's that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even as the target demographic for TikTok, I still hate it. Though I was only 10 when Vine was a thing I still liked it much better, didn't feel as synthetic as it is now.

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