Not Lemmy. Not Reddit.
Any short form media tiktok, reels, youtube shorts
They ask about normal people and Lemmings mostly answer about themselves. 🤦♂️
So, normal Lemmings?
This is a oxymoron. Lemmy is not mainstream media.
Normal is a baseline for a system. The average Lemming is an outlier by the fact that they are using Lemmy.
Exactly! Lemmings are very tech literate on average. And have different usage patterns than the average phone user.
We only know our own selves.
I’m not normal, but I’m guessing some mix of Instagram, TikTok, and Shorts. But, maybe there’s more casino / gatcha games, too.
Why not Reddit? I’ve found more reddit users irl after I left than anytime before. Seems plenty normal. Otherwise, facebook/tiktok/Instagram/YouTube scrolling. I assume Tumblr and Twitter, too. A myriad of endless mobile games based around bubbles, blocks, or tower defense. I’ve also seen cross stitch and paint by numbers type apps. I’m sure there’s people that doomscroll regular news sites.
I’m guessing you’re looking to use your time better and want recommendations though, not just a list describing how every cohort is doomscrolling their little diminishing dopamine box.
Read articles I’ve saved to my self hosted readeck.
Oh you said normal people …
Local current and future weather forecast
What plants do well in my zone this time of year.
Contemplate on getting another rain barrel
Read patch notes for whatever game I’m currently playing
Check forums for posts about patch notes complaints.
I “Study”
I watch Tiktok or Youtube on skills I want to learn.
Cooking (mostly foreign or asian) or Nails, colors, tehcniques, etc.
Mostly tumblr, Lemmy, reddit, and occasionally Wikipedia for me. Most people I know would be on Instagram, but I can’t stand it.
Play chess or read about history
Depends, at home on WiFi… I might watch videos. If I’m out and about…
I read wikipedia pages, ars-technica articles, read the news, scroll through pics of my cats.Read manga, read porn, listen to books, or music, sometimes watch porn
you read porn ? Don’t think I’ve ever tried this
Literotica.com is a pretty safe and minimalist place to go. You may even be able to still sideload their old app, though not sure if its up to date or if not. Enter at your own risk and learn the check the story codes if they are present BEFORE you start reading a story. For your own health and sanity.
You could also search for clitorides awards too
Thanks for the pointers !
Just don’t tell Violet…
Who ? the mysterious user that I heard people were suspecting of being a horny bot ?
You got it. It was a lame attempt at a joke sorry.
looks like we all suck at jokes this weekend
Dude, AO3.
You’re lookin’ at it. I have no time for the vapidity of Facebook, 'gram, Snapchat, etc. I only hit FB now for the messaging with my family and some short-reel dopamine.
Plenty of proper games (read: not mobile games) have ports on lots of app stores, particularly deck building games. I’ve been playing Slay the Spire, Dicey Dungeons, and Balatro.
How the fuck is anyone here supposed to answer that? There’s nobody normal here!
It is important that we observe humanity, that we may less noticeably walk in the midst of it. By comparing notes, we maximize our observations.
The way normal works, if everyone here on lemmy does something one way, then that becomes the normal. There’s no universal normal, because normal is always relative to context. The broader the context, then the wider and more diverse the normal becomes.
Or as my statistics professor liked to say “normal is a curve, get over it”.
Recently I watched a guy in a movie theater before the movie started fiddling with his phone. In rapid fire, he was scrolling Instagram, liking things and stopping on hot ladies. Switch over to facebook and quick scroll that. Send a link to a friend. Then doomscroll reddit.
I don’t think he stopped to read a thing beyond the headline except for boobs.
(Sam Elliott voice) He too is god’s handiwork.
I don’t think he stopped to read a thing beyond the headline except for boobs.
wait…is this not how the internet is supposed to work?
