I, much like basically everyone here, have been avoiding Reddit when possible, and the content here just doesn’t hit the same. My fried dopamine receptors were certainly screaming for stimulation early on but now I feel an urge to touch grass and breathe fresh air. What is this? Am I dying? I still hate the angry lightbulb in the sky.
In all seriousness though, I’ll admit that I was kind of addicted to Reddit and now I don’t want to go near it. Maybe this will turn a new leaf for me. If not here, I’ll probably find some other way to satiate my dopamine receptors through more productive means.
This is how it was for me in the Twitter migration. I’m now a regular Mastodon user and it’s a much less stressful community than Twitter was. I think kbin and lemmy may end up the same, the functionality of Reddit but without the ads and algorithmic cruelty and pileons. A healthier social media.