Planning on replacing Reddit with Lemmy. Pretty sure this will catch up Reddit soon.

Probably decreased lol. Instead of lurking/browsing I want to help grow this and am spending more time on the site making posts and comments. But its a lot more active engagement and I’m enjoying it

I’m definitely not going back to Reddit.

Same as some of the replies: I find I’m posting more now on Lemmy whereas on Reddit I was only passively scrolling most of the time, but here I feel more of an urge to contribute and make the fediverse a success.

So thus far not a productivity improvement yet, unless you count contributing to Lemmy as being productive.

Of course not. There are countless other ways to procrastinate.

Yes and yes. Lemmy is great but not as addictive as reddit, which has really made me enjoy it and makes me more productive.

I’m replacing Reddit with Lemmy or other things.

It is tempting to blame the external for internal problems.

Yes, at least for the couple of days before I found Lemmy. But I did realize that I need to keep myself out of the ‘news stream’ for focused productivity. So much of what I see during the day doesn’t even matter and yet I let it become top-of-mind too quickly. I don’t need to be wasting brainpower on so many things that come into my awareness in a day, and our minds are always looking for distractions. The past few days have galvanized my resolve to remove myself from that stream. The balance is just ‘I need to be informed, and I need to be knowledgeable’ but not ‘I need article headlines screaming at me all day how the world is ending’.