Lemmy.

I admin a lemmy instance, so I have less time now than I did when I used Reddit

My yard looks nicer. My dog gets 2-3 walks a day instead of 1-2. Also porn.

I started a band. 🤷‍♂️ 🎸

Why, I spent it maintaining my Lemmy instance of course.

Reading more books during breaks at work! It's easier to focus on reading books when I don't have reddit on my phone. I like Lemmy, but I mostly use it for 15min at a time. Since I joined Lemmy/stopped using reddit mobile, I've read 5 books! :)

For real? Taking care of my mental health. I was in a very bad spot of my life earlier this year. I lost my best friend who also happened to be my business partner, he died in March.

It was a shock, we both founded a small NPO together, he was behind all the strategy, I was more into communication. We thought he would recover from his cancer, but he caught covid while his immune system was at its weakest. He lost that battle.

I immediately tried to find my next professional step, insisting that I had to find a way to promote social economy locally, as that's what we wanted to do together.

All this pressure on myself by myself, plus the state of the world, neverending flow of bad news, me losing faith in mostly everything and becoming extra cynical, I ended up flirting with a major burnout.

Fortunately, I asked for help when it was still time to act, and the reddit api scandal happened at about the same time. Leaving reddit was one of the first step towards recovery. All the subreddits were basically optimized for doomscrolling, which was super toxic for the state of mind I was in.

I just started to use lemmy last week since I found that Sync for Lemmy was available. And I only subscribed to things that aren't too toxic. I'm now on medication to avoid depression. It's been 3 weeks and it's already much better.

I don't think I'll be browsing Lemmy as much as I was browsing reddit.

Lemmy, duh.

But also more reading and doing sudokus

All my Reddit time was diverted to here, lol

Now I check both Lemmy and (although less than before) Reddit, so I have even less free time

I started using Lemmy... That's why I'm here

BG3

Browsing Lemmy and kbin. There's lots of interesting stuff when you sort by new. Today's unexpected find was banjo music with duck sounds.

Once in a while, I try my hand at translating.

Is this a real question?

I spent 3 hours on Lemmy yesterday.

I replaced 60% of it with Lemmy and the rest with YouTube

Lemmy was a 1 to 1 time sink replacement for Reddit for me so not a lot has changed!

BG3

I went all out and sold my PS5, bought a guitar and have been teaching myself how to play. I feel awkward because I didn’t just move to Lenny but now I can play dope ass riffs.

Installed stable diffusion to create pictures of... things.

I started taking better care of my mental health and have taken up reading

You’re posting on it.

Reading books

Duolingo

Lemmy, and occasionally getting actual work done.

Lemmy. I'm actually using it more than I used to use Reddit. But I'm also reading more now, so I think I have more free time in general

Touch grass and go to college

I went back to going to my news instead of having news fed to me.

use lemmy and mastodon

Browse tumblr. Haven't found my niche yet on lemmy. I'm also learning a new language on Duolingo and am halfway through Ulysses!

More reading: books, magazines, newspapers. Also trying to get more exercise.

Post comments on Lemmy!

Just kidding.

been drawing more. End up reading up on things more like I use to be someone who did a lot of wikipedia rabbit holing and now I'm doing that again.

Facing all my issues.

Creat porn ...

I use lemmy obviously. But I've started reading books again rather than doomscrolling until I fall asleep at night, and also more gaming and socialising in general.

I think it was a crutch for my depression.

either wasting more time on another worthless thing or casually browsing the internet