Not Lemmy. Not Reddit.
Read articles I’ve saved to my self hosted readeck.
Oh you said normal people …
I’m not normal, but I’m guessing some mix of Instagram, TikTok, and Shorts. But, maybe there’s more casino / gatcha games, too.
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.
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.I “Study”
I watch Tiktok or Youtube on skills I want to learn.
Cooking (mostly foreign or asian) or Nails, colors, tehcniques, etc.
You’re kookin’ 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.
They ask about normal people and Lemmings mostly answer about themselves. 🤦♂️
We only know our own selves.
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.
Most normal people? Instagram, tiktok, facebook. Maybe twitter.
Yeah I used to go on the reddit app and now its just fb and insta
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”.
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.
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?
Me:
- Open Maps
- Stare at it
- Mentally think to my self this is my life now (say, I’m waiting at an appointment for something)
- Press home buttom
- Open App list
- Scroll up and down
- To back to home page
- STARE at it, pretending I’m busy doing something
- Oh shit maybe I should actually do something
- Realize I actually haven’t taken the time to download anything beforehand
- Downloads Lichess
- Actually I wanna just browse wikipedia
- Find an article for what stuff I have on my mind
- STARE at it, pretending I’m reading an ebook
- Actually I can’t focus, home screen again
- Opens the notes app
-
- blank note
- Hmm okay lets write a poem… how am I feeling right now…
- Writes 1-2 line…
- Fuck I can’t think of anything else… my head hurts…
- Press homescreen
- Stare at it for 10 seconds
- Turn it off
- Spin the phone around like a fidget spinner
- Bored af
Neurodivergent? I am lol and this resonates. I write a lot more now that I have an ereader (that can also be a notebook!) I get it out rather than my phone sometimes and there’s less distraction on it. It’s either read, write or browse the bookstore 😅
Lichess best chess
https://lichess.org/ is great even on a computer, not just on a phone. I don’t play on my phone, but I do like to play from time to time on lichess :)
Reminds me of the days I wasted my whole afternoons on Wikipedia while at work.
I think you have ADHD, right?
Officially, no. I only have Depression and Anxiety.
Sorry to hear that, friend. ❤️
YouTube. Also that stupid mobile Pokémon card game for like 3 minutes, twice a day.
Play chess or read about history
Mostly tumblr, Lemmy, reddit, and occasionally Wikipedia for me. Most people I know would be on Instagram, but I can’t stand it.










