Ask Lemmy

I'm listening to a 44 hour audio book on YouTube.

I have limits set. 30 mins for Lemmy, 30 mins for YouTube, 30 mins for news and 30 mins for hacker news

I try to not just hang online, but instead game and watch shows

I am on lemmy most of the time but i also watch ton of movies and shows

Used to be reddit. I'm here now because I can't be on reddit anymore, but this place (maybe thankfully) just isn't the abyss to suck me into, so now, my online time is mostly on discord

I'm not counting videogames. Though I do play some online stuff, I don't consider it the same as something like browsing a website. It's a different activity. If you do count it, then yeah, it's games. My computer time is largely games

I'm reading more and watching movies way more. I LOVE movies. Sometimes in the 2010s I completely lost the ability to watch movie without being on my phone. My goal is to change that

I watch YouTube and twitch(without log-in). I mostly watch penguinz0 videos and valorant esports on twitch.

I mostly don't. I write, program, play a game, catch up on work, spend time with family, etc. instead. I'm kind of glad because I've noticed life has genuinely improved since taking a step back from the Internet's toxicity.

Low effort stuff: Lemmy, rock paper shotgun, ars technica.

Slightly more effort: Bandcamp

High effort: video games, reading

If I am not browsing lemmy or forums that I have used for 20+ years, I follow a few patreon creators to catch their new releases as well as a few other content creators who livestream on twitch and youtube.

I'm here. Or in a game. Or watching YouTube. Sometimes I am here while in a game watching YouTube. It's actually funny that I have been in VRChat, scrolling my phone using scrcpy while watching stuff on a screen on the virtual wall. Like I'm just doing what I would do without VR, but as my fursona in a sick space station.

It has the same vibe of watching a sim of yourself watching TV.

Lemmy, YouTube. There's so many good videos on YouTube that I don't have time to watch. Searching up how to do something online. There's always some Linux programs I don't know to use. Currently I am also watching The Computer Chronicles on archive.org. There's also some sort of hidden parts of online you may not be realizing are there, though I haven't spent basically any time there yet. For example Gopherspace. Gopher is an old protocol that used to compete with HTTP. It still has some people using it, just for fun. Of course, you won't just find those gopher holes as the protocol isn't supported by modern browsers. You can use Lynx.
You can use Veronica 2 search engine here: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/

Download and distribute Nintendo emulators and roms.

Other than reading webcomics and webserials, I don't spend a lot of time online these days. I check lemmy and reddit for about ten minutes each two or three times a day.

But increasingly I play local multiplayer games with my kids and read ebooks offline.

Well, first the obvious, Lemmy, YouTube, learn a language, learn a skill. Do you have any creative outlets?

YouTube

Lemmy

NPR

Discord

I spend more time sorting my weapons and gear and creating loadouts on a 3rd party app for Destiny 2 than I actually spend playing the game

Pinterest

Recipe hunting on various websites

Still browse Reddit but less and less every day

Never look at Twitter unless something else linked to it, and I don't have an account

Never look at Instagram, I don't have an account

Facebook once a week at best, though only on my PC, I deleted the app from my phone ages ago

Lemmy and Discord mostly. I watch a lot of YouTube. I also spend days going down Wikipedia rabbit holes.

Ultimate guitar .com + a few choice youtube videos and you could be playing amateurish but satisfying guitar songs in a few weeks. Take it from there and who knows how far you’d go.

Reading, discord, mastodon, crocheting are my main things at this point. Lemmy occasionally.

I tutor, lead a dumb mobile game clan of around 100 people, read, listen to music and watch youtube videos.

Discord communities, youtube for content I enjoy, lemmy, checking tumblr and mastodon.

I used to say that "Once I leave Reddit I'll have more time for my hobbies instead of looking at a screen about my hobbies" but I realized that:

• One website's existence doesn't solve or prevent a problem of my brain chemistry
• I already have a lot of hobbies and reddit introduced me to some, and most of those are offline.

I think the fact that Reddit imploded is good, it gave me an excuse to leave a site that I hated more than I enjoyed being part of it, for lots of reasons.

Facebook, Voyager, Google News with a daily 30 minute limit for each.

YouTube with no limit but usually multitasking.

Email, whatsapp, other work stuff.

Podcasts sometimes while driving / working.

ABC listen sometimes while driving / working.

If you have that lying around, play that freaking game you left on your steam library for later. While playing this game, limit/cut all your accesses to these social platforms that makes you turn in circles.

Also do invite old friends or loved ones, at least on discord, talking with real humans sometimes could help you disconnect from these ragebait worlds.

I mostly just read things on Mastodon, Lemmy and Bluesky, even though I didn't really do much social media in the before times. Actually got in touch with a side of myself I've been neglecting for a while, I guess. However, I've also learned that I'm not the kind of person that can deal with people online being sad, which is a problem on leftist social media where everyone is suffering. I should really touch grass or something.

Other than that, I've been gaming and trying to talk with friends over Discord (nobody is online much nowadays. ;_;).

Podcasts mostly. Lemmy is ok, but it lacks the content Reddit once had.

Sounds like you need to go outside m8. Try doing something new. Maybe do something good for yourself, like exercising or reading a book.

Also you can block the meme comms and the news comms that don't interest you and then your feed might have some more interesting posts.

I've embraced this and started reading more books and taking my health and passions more seriously. I've even ditched my Apple Watch and have found other ways to declutter and minimize my digital lifestyle. It's genuinely freeing and feels fantastic.

Discord, Mastodon, games. That's really it.

YouTube and video game lore. Warhammer lore is extensive.