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how did you manage to do it? Quitting smoking was way easier than quitting reddit :( I even uninstalled the mobile app and occasionally scroll throgh web versio

how did you manage to do it? Quitting smoking was way easier than quitting reddit :( I even uninstalled the mobile app and occasionally scroll throgh web version.

superkuh 6y ago
You don't have to quit cold turkey, but do set up an RSS reader and begin adding the feeds of every single interesting website you find on content aggregators like reddit/HN. Eventually, over the course of months or years, you'll grow your local RSS feeds like large enough to wean off centralized corporate aggregators.
- hn_user82179 6y ago
  Very helpful idea! Do you have any recommendations for interesting websites you like?
  - superkuh 6y ago
    Here's a categorized HTML unordered list of all of my feeds as of about a month ago, http://superkuh.com/feeds6.html http://superkuh.com/feeds6.html . The RSS icon links to the feed, the text to the right links to the associated website. If you want the straight opml: http://superkuh.com/rss-feeds-2021.opml http://superkuh.com/rss-feeds-2021.opml
bvinc 6y ago
Here's what I did, I put up roadblocks to mindless browsing: Use firefox nightly on android and do the hackery required to install arbitrary extensions, and install the "Request Blocker" extension. Block all browsing front pages, /r/all /r/popular /r/pics or whichever subreddit you want to block yourself from. *://*.reddit.com/r/all/ *://*.reddit.com/r/popular/ *://*.reddit.com/ Also do this on your desktop machines. Also, I use old reddit on my desktop, and I use ublock origin to remove the entire bar of links at the top. www.reddit.com###sr-header-area These blocks are permanent. If I run across an important link on reddit from a google search, or someone sends me a link, I can view it. But what I can't do, is browse the front page or dumb subreddits.
jmpman 6y ago
I went cold turkey at the start of Trump’s presidency. Although I will break it for specific searches such as “compare X vs Y item” when shopping, or to view links my wife sends. Wasn’t as hard as kicking my TikTok habit. It’s become a hive mind. Avoid it.
- uvnq 6y ago
  Good time to break the habit. It seems like we've become very polarized and siloed since then, and politics has infected non-political communities to a much greater degree

how did you manage to do it? Quitting smoking was way easier than quitting reddit :( I even uninstalled the mobile app and occasionally scroll throgh web version.

superkuh 6y ago

You don't have to quit cold turkey, but do set up an RSS reader and begin adding the feeds of every single interesting website you find on content aggregators like reddit/HN. Eventually, over the course of months or years, you'll grow your local RSS feeds like large enough to wean off centralized corporate aggregators.

hn_user82179 6y ago
Very helpful idea! Do you have any recommendations for interesting websites you like?
- superkuh 6y ago
  Here's a categorized HTML unordered list of all of my feeds as of about a month ago, http://superkuh.com/feeds6.html http://superkuh.com/feeds6.html . The RSS icon links to the feed, the text to the right links to the associated website. If you want the straight opml: http://superkuh.com/rss-feeds-2021.opml http://superkuh.com/rss-feeds-2021.opml

bvinc 6y ago

Here's what I did, I put up roadblocks to mindless browsing: Use firefox nightly on android and do the hackery required to install arbitrary extensions, and install the "Request Blocker" extension. Block all browsing front pages, /r/all /r/popular /r/pics or whichever subreddit you want to block yourself from. *://*.reddit.com/r/all/ *://*.reddit.com/r/popular/ *://*.reddit.com/ Also do this on your desktop machines. Also, I use old reddit on my desktop, and I use ublock origin to remove the entire bar of links at the top. www.reddit.com###sr-header-area These blocks are permanent. If I run across an important link on reddit from a google search, or someone sends me a link, I can view it. But what I can't do, is browse the front page or dumb subreddits.

jmpman 6y ago

I went cold turkey at the start of Trump’s presidency. Although I will break it for specific searches such as “compare X vs Y item” when shopping, or to view links my wife sends. Wasn’t as hard as kicking my TikTok habit. It’s become a hive mind. Avoid it.

uvnq 6y ago
Good time to break the habit. It seems like we've become very polarized and siloed since then, and politics has infected non-political communities to a much greater degree