Not Lemmy. Not Reddit.
Do you mean normal “phone” people? Are people who don’t have a phone or don’t play with them abnormal?
Hackernews & lobsters
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.
Pornhub and redgifs.
Oh yeah and occasionally emails.
Before I had an existential crisis and lost my damn mind it was instagram, discord, and snapchat (literally for 2 people). Now it’s just Lemmy.
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
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 :)
Lemme, TikTok, Instagram (where I follow mostly artists, friends and crafters), and Libby
- Researching the next project.
- Watching way too much news about American and world politics, I’m getting a bit tired after two years with flooded zone.
- Audiobooks and podcasts.
Open phone. See if new email. Check here. Check YouTube subs. Adds up to less than an hour a day. Unless I feel like sudoku. Thats my time sink.
Wordle and a number of other similar puzzles around the web.
Many seem to watch short vertical videos of people talking to the camera about stuff I couldn’t care less about.
Normal people scroll social media. Instagram. Maybe buy something the ad tells them they need. Then send messages or videos to friends and chats. That’s about it.
I just started Dungeon Crawler Carl on my phone.
Moonreader or play books, when reddit removed 3rd party api access, I never installed the official app, so I replaced it with reading. That is, until I found Lemmy ;) I still read more than I scroll tho.
Panem et circenses.
