I stopped using reddit when Apollo went down, and 2-3 hours of scrolling and active posting in some niche subs turned into ~30 mins of Lemmy per day, which I find much more healthy.

I didn’t start doing yoga, painting, or a side business, just feel much better having cut back the last big pillar of my social media addiction.

So thanks Steve!

(If it’s not too much to ask, please take a look at how you could improve instagram, you could save another 15 minute of my day)

  • @orgrinrt
    17•1 year ago

    There’s Pixelfed, something of a fediverse Instagram. In many ways it’s actually better, even. But it’s pretty mature at this point and has a bunch of QoL stuff going on, such as mastodon signup/login thing.

    Unfortunately I think ig crowd is much less likely to move on to fediverse alternatives than Twitter or reddit folks.

    Hard to just quit ig for me too, when I have brand accounts to keep up and active, and it’s also actually the last social media I have family members and relatives on, and only thing allowing me to move would be for them to join fediverse somewhere, not necessarily pixelfed, but thats unlikely to happen very soon.

    • magic_lobster_party
      4•1 year ago

      I hate what Instagram has become lately. First it became a Snapchat clone, and then it transformed into a TikTok clone. I preferred it when it was just a photo album.

      But hard to quit when everybody use it.