Shoutout to Clearspace (YC23), which I saw posted here and helped me finally break off from Reddit. I'm not entirely free of it yet, but I hardly ever browse it

Shoutout to Clearspace (YC23), which I saw posted here and helped me finally break off from Reddit. I'm not entirely free of it yet, but I hardly ever browse it on my phone and the improvement for my mental health has been astronomical. I noticed getting away from habitually scrolling has taken the shine off browsing the desktop too: Like now I have formed the complete realization that the content on that website just isn't remotely good anymore. There was a time where I could reasonably justify all the cruft and advertising shoveled at you there because of the quality content and discussion, but that's almost completely dwindled away now. In hindsight, it's like the cool neighborhood bar full of geeks gradually started watering down the beers with urine over the last few years and I just realized the geeks are all gone, the patrons are all just shouting at each other, and the beer is just piss. The site always had a contrarian edge to it, but the userbase seems completely driven over into a culture of "gotchas" - "well actuallys" as you say. And a decade ago the people making "gotchas" about technology were maybe at least informed in the niche, not fomenting cynically negative conspiracy theories and getting voted to the top of a front page threads. The site is so pessimistic now. I firmly believe habitually browsing reddit will poison your outlook to be more negative and cynical because the community constantly promotes that mindset.