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its not so much loyalty, more addiction that i keep coming here and to reddit. I've pretty much fallen out of love with both sites (i've been on both for almos

its not so much loyalty, more addiction that i keep coming here and to reddit. I've pretty much fallen out of love with both sites (i've been on both for almost 10 years) but I gotta get that dopamine hit from finding interesting articles and getting in internet discussions. not even being sarcastic.

sanswork 9y ago
I finally took the step to consciously stop visiting reddit this week. I've replaced it with another forum specific to a new subject I'm trying to learn as my go to distraction place. It's only been a few days but if it goes anything like Slashdot and Digg after it in a week or two I'll forget to ever look. It got to the point where it felt like I was going on reddit to be annoyed. I'd go to subreddits where I knew I would heavily disagree with the opinions, I'd read SRD, all this stuff that was just entirely negative. The only problem with avoiding reddit is that on a lot of topics when you search for something reddit comes up frequently in the search requests.
- type0 9y ago
  > The only problem with avoiding reddit is that on a lot of topics when you search for something reddit comes up frequently in the search requests. That's probably because google or whatever else you use is filter-bubbling you...
  - chadgeidel 9y ago
    Anecdotal, but I rarely get search results linking to reddit. I personally left reddit a few years ago so this may be the filter-bubble pointing me elsewhere.
Tossrock 9y ago
pg has a good take on this in his addiction essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html "We'll have to worry not just about new things, but also about existing things becoming more addictive. That's what bit me. I've avoided most addictions, but the Internet got me because it became addictive while I was using it."

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its not so much loyalty, more addiction that i keep coming here and to reddit. I've pretty much fallen out of love with both sites (i've been on both for almos

by ryanx435 9y ago

sanswork 9y ago
I finally took the step to consciously stop visiting reddit this week. I've replaced it with another forum specific to a new subject I'm trying to learn as my go to distraction place. It's only been a few days but if it goes anything like Slashdot and Digg after it in a week or two I'll forget to ever look. It got to the point where it felt like I was going on reddit to be annoyed. I'd go to subreddits where I knew I would heavily disagree with the opinions, I'd read SRD, all this stuff that was just entirely negative. The only problem with avoiding reddit is that on a lot of topics when you search for something reddit comes up frequently in the search requests.
- type0 9y ago
  > The only problem with avoiding reddit is that on a lot of topics when you search for something reddit comes up frequently in the search requests. That's probably because google or whatever else you use is filter-bubbling you...
  - chadgeidel 9y ago
    Anecdotal, but I rarely get search results linking to reddit. I personally left reddit a few years ago so this may be the filter-bubble pointing me elsewhere.
Tossrock 9y ago
pg has a good take on this in his addiction essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html "We'll have to worry not just about new things, but also about existing things becoming more addictive. That's what bit me. I've avoided most addictions, but the Internet got me because it became addictive while I was using it."