L4sBot'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest
SanctusThe point of opening it this early again was to gsrner traffic. Don’t go there at all. It would have been best if only mods and corpo shills were placing pixels.
vmachielYeah. I liked Reddit and I’m still feeling the “fuck spez” thing.
But there is just nothing to be done: Reddit is going a different way and that’s fine. So now I’m here and again it’s fine. What is nice is that if I understand this federation thing correctly, there can’t be ONE bad actor that messes everything up.
As much as I’ve been enjoying Lemmy and really like it as a platform, I don’t think any of this this is fine because there are just too many niche communities that are either unwilling or unable to just pick up and move, which means that in practice to the extent that I only participate here and not on Reddit I am missing out on a lot of content that I used to look forward to.
I actually find it kind of freeing. With Reddit I kept scrolling in hopes of finding something interesting through one of those niche communities, with Lenny I find myself doomscrolling a lot less
Me too, I’ll engage for around 15-30 minutes then go and do some writing rather than spend 4 hours doom scrolling.
I’ve legit got so much work done it staggers the mind.
I stopped using Reddit completely on July first, and in that time I’ve got a reflective log completed and submitted, a report on disruptive fintech completed a week early and submitted and now a mini dissertation completed 2 weeks early.
It’s almost as if spending my time doing coursework is better than freaking out trying to finish it and submit to turnitin 30 seconds before the deadline while praying the connection doesn’t fail.
Anyway…
We all use social media in different ways. For me, I use it primarily as a relatively mindless activity I can engage in when my brain is too tired to do something that I actually care about. For example, at work I often write comments when I am stuck or feeling burned out, and taking the time to rest in this way helps my brain recover and often after a while the solution to my problem pops into my head and I can proceed.