Save your Lemmy homepage as a shortcut on your Home Screen, move your Reddit app and replace it with your Lemmy shortcut.

I just opened Reddit 5x today and had to figure out how to train myself not to use it. This seemed to help me, I hope it helps others too.

Stay strong brothers and sisters. Remember, the more we post, the better it gets.

  • Prometheus@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Just switch to Jerboa. Yes, it’s a bit janky, but endure. It’s well worth it. Edit: forgot to write, a place where Jerboa icon is is the place where Infinity stood for 4 years. Same phone, yeah.

    • bloodtide@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      I wish, but I’m on iOS and the equivalent, Mlem, is straight alpha jank. I actually turned the spot Apollo used to be in, into a folder containing both the web shortcut, Mlem and also a shortcut to Lemmy Community Browser and use all three for different things for now due to feature disparity

      • Slated@vlemmy.net
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m working on a iOS client that’s similar to Apollo, with the swiping upvote (my favorite feature lol). So if in a few days you want an alpha invite I can send it to you. It’s already at a point where it’s on par with Mlem but I’d like to spend a few days fine tuning a few things to get it to a place I would daily drive it.

      • darrsil@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        I have to say, I kind of like that Android has a better app than iOS for once (albeit barely).

        • nodiet@feddit.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          What do you mean for once? Especially in the FOSS space iOS is woefully underrepresented. Although I suppose that makes sense given the walled garden, closed source approach of apple

      • lhx@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Just use your web browser on mobile. It works pretty damn well. Eventually we’ll get an Apollo-level equivalent, but the web browser works SOOOOOO much better on Lemmy as compared to reddit. The responsiveness and themes work great.

      • KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@beehaw.org
        0·
        1 year ago

        Ooh what is Lemmy Community Browser?

        Im on iOS. I have the beta mlem app. I mainly just use safari. The auto scrolling feed is annoying me. Is there a way to disable that?

  • Trashcan@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    It’s just that I have to scroll so far to get new content. And I keep seeing old content that are two days old that stays on the top… I really to new stuff to crawl up!😅

    • empyrean@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      There is a setting that you can disable “Show Read Posts”. This way you will only see new things :)

  • JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve done exacly this yestarday. Muscle memory is a powerful thing, but now it just leads me to Lemmy instead of Reddit.

  • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    It’s definitely been a very interesting situation, in that it’s made many of us take a long hard look at what we are with concern to reddit… addicted. I expect some will rail against that classification but make no mistake, these apps / sites are designed to be addictive (iirc they call it ‘stickiness’).

    As well as relentless scrolling throughout the day, I found I was wasting hours feeding into my depression doomscrolling before even getting out of bed. Regardless of what happens next, I’m not installing the reddit app or reinstalling my 3rd party choice (Infinity). Surprise, I’m now getting up much more quickly and starting the day in a better frame of mind.

    I wonder how many users they’ve permanently lost through this debacle?

  • Metalero@feddit.de
    11·
    1 year ago

    Another approach is to switch to a distractless Launcher. I personally use Olauncher, needed 2 days to get used to it… never looked back.

  • cali@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

    Just switched my RIF app to Jerboa and put it where my RIF app used to be.

    It’s difficult searching for things in the internet for opinions without putting ‘reddit’ at the end of it though!

    • CerebralCult@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      It most certainly is difficult. <Search Query> site:reddit.com is seriously helpful and I can’t see myself doing searches without it.

      Given how instances and communities work, I wonder how will we do searches in the future as lemmy gets more popular.

      • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi
        1·
        1 year ago

        Tbh, rif was only renamed to rif is fun because they were no longer allowed to use Reddit is fun.

        So I wouldn’t mind if it was released Lemmy is Fun, but then idk what the holders of the “Lemmy” trademark’s policy on using the name.

  • Tnaeriv@sopuli.xyz
    0·
    1 year ago

    Out of curiosity: why don’t you delete Reddit entirely? I did that and am very happy.