LOL I totally identify with this. I don't remember upvoting, but it looks like I already did. Just un-upvoted and re-upvoted for good measure.

Commented from Voyager

Welp, that's enough Lemmy, let me just check kbin where I have an identical set of subscriptions...

Unironically & with no malice attached, you should log off for a bit. Social media, and the pocket scryers that enable it, were designed in part to short circuit your reward centers. If you want off the dopamine treadmill, you'll have to make a concious effort.

Break your rhythm, get a book or something and a burner flip phone for emergencies. Or a lock app.

Yeah we gotta be the pioneers for now! Screw reddit the ownership sucks we just need the people to join us here make it more fun

Set one to default open to all/hot and the other one to all/new. And a third one to subscribed/top 24h or something

I have Jerboa, sync, connect, summit, and liftoff. Each is logged into a different account on a different instance. I like being to scroll through local timelines. On Reddit, I had several different accounts I used for different interests. Lemmy isn't quite big enough for that yet, but different local timelines are interesting, and allow me something to do when one has down time.

i have now done this with reddit, lemmy, and mastodon

ah, the joys of having multiple clients to the same platform

Sometimes I remember to check out Mastodon.

I'm an old person, I still check MetaFilter, Slashdot, and hackernews regularly. Occasionally places like hackaday. Also the forums on private trackers. Lots of good content out there, and I'd rather pull a link/set of links I found from somewhere like MeFi or hackernews than reddit.

Hmmm, I should start work soon.

I start instance surfing. I go into federated instance lists and just pick a random one to explore.