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.

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?

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!😅

I'm doing exactly what you suggested...but man it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. I am both figuring this out and completely confused. But I was that way on Reddit years ago.

Just delete that other app. You can do it dude.

As soon as someone creates an iOS or android browser for lemmy it's OVER for reddit lol

I deleted Apollo when the blackout started and haven’t used Reddit since. But I’m in med school and should be getting results of step 1 tomorrow 😞 normally I’d be doomscrolling r/step1 and there doesn’t seem to be an equivalent yet. So for anyone reading this: 😭

Now I understand what smokers mean when they say “muscle memory” makes their fingers automatically go for the cigarette in the pack.

My fingers have been automatically going to the space where Apollo / RIF was.

I did that the first day. Works perfectly.

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!

Yup, works wonders to stop me from opening apollo every other minute. Fuck spez

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

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

@bloodtide I used a browser extension to block reddit just so I don't go on it anymore.

Yup, also browse "All" communities (not local/Subscribed) by "Hot" for an equivelance to the Reddit homepage and to discover other communities.

I ended up uninstalling reddit, because I opened it too much. Then, as you said, I moved the lemmy icon to where reddit used to be.

Hehe, removing Relay was the first thing I did, because even if I just closed it I would tap it out of boredom and habit. But I'll just delete my users and uninstall the app

Yep, did the same on my tablet, Lemmy with Kiwi Browser in Desktop mode is awesome af ;)

I only use Jerboa now. It has taken the place of my favorite reddit app, Joey. Though it is a little lacking that still requires me to go to my homepage. Usually to add new communities to my feed.

Never really used the official reddit website. old.reddit.com was just to bright, and the modern version is... Well, garbage.