I’ve been on Reddit for over a decade. But I’m done with that site and want to do something else. What do normal people look at on their phones? Is it all social media? Streaming?
I do a lot of podcasts and play pokemon on my phone. Emulators are amazing
Why do you have to replace it?
Maybe use it as a way to cut down on screen time.
I have no socials on my phone. I mainly use it to listen to audiobooks/podcasts instead.
I can’t claim to represent anyone other than myself. I use an RSS feeder for news, articles, and webcomics. I have some ebooks from the library downloaded. I have been playing an MMO phone game for the last ~year and check on that a couple times a day. Discord. Lemmy has replaced reddit for me but I don’t spend as much time on it as I used to on reddit.
What RSS reader do you use?
The majority are on TikTok, instagram, Facebook, YouTube and X. Probably Tinder and Hinge after those.
My phone has an FM tuner, so I usually listen to local radio stations. Sometimes I watch TV shows or movies I downloaded on the SD card, but I prefer watching videos on a larger screen when possible. Cell service is crap around here, so streaming is not very practical.
From my observations: Normal people don’t look at their phone; they listen to it.
If you’re expecting normal people to answer: Do you even know where you are right now? :p
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I can.t find a goood rss feed for it :(
I just use harmonic app… I’m sure that’s not the coolest most hackery way to access it, but I’m too busy working on my sawmill to piss around…
I am the wrong person to ask about this, but I read ebooks, play games, go on fora.
My wife cruises Facebook marketplace and other similar sites and buys furniture which she then resells at a profit. But I doubt that’s very common either.
How the hell would any of us know?
Some of us have millennial and zoomer kids.
Mazel tov
A duck!
Around me I see people watching the videos that just keep coming. Next video before you even had time to form a thought about the last one. I don’t think you should follow their example.
It’s weird! I sometimes look at teenagers browsing their phones on the grocery line and they’re doing a ton of stuff while not actually doing anything. It’s like they simply cant stand there alone with their thoughts for two minutes but need to just start opening random apps, scroll few times, switch to another app, like something, move again…
If I don’t distract, the demons rise up out of my subconscious and start chewing on my psyche. melancholy, ennui and existential dread follow leading to depression and suicidal ideation. Radical behavior, poor life choices are followed by death and a big mess reported on national news.
So…harm reduction!
It’s absolutely terrifying how much content is pushed into their eyeballs so quickly. I think about how overwhelmed I was with Reddit, and even here sometimes, and this is a pretty slow feed that I get to control. Control. Having constant video shoved into my eyes- I just don’t think that can be healthy
I’ll second the idea that more than a few minutes of tiktok, YouTube shorts or Instagram reels is debilitating.
I check the weather, use my calendar, listen to podcasts, take notes, use the camera and occasionally browse lemmy while on a toilet like now
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