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My Day Away from Reddit
- pyeri 3y agoThe IPO was a blatant attempt to pluck out all the golden eggs by killing the goose, what happened yesterday was a very natural and predictable outcome of that event.
- Havoc 3y agoIt did highlight to me how often I circle back to Reddit almost subconsciously when idling surfing the internet. Will need to do something about that…
- kazinator 3y agoURL-rewriting browser extension.
- myspy 3y agoI did that too, I moved the bookmark on my phone, helps a lot.
- rightbyte 3y agoUse e.g. LeechBlock. As soon as going to a site is muscle memory it is impossible to prevent for me.
- newqer 3y agoI deleted Boost app from my phone, to not mindlessly open it. Coincidentally Boost is an alternative app to access Reddit through their API. Luckily I don't use reddit from my laptop, due to to horrible experience. So no muscle memory to trick me into visiting.
- xxs 3y ago>Will need to do something about that… set your browser to delete cookies on exit, and restart it often enough. If anything can be access with a browser, don't install 'apps'
- deergomoo 3y agoI uninstalled Apollo yesterday and I’m kind of embarrassed at how many times since I’ve tried to open it without even thinking about it. It’s only when the app isn’t there that your brain snaps out of it and you wonder what the hell you’re doing.
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoI think it’s a testament to just how good Apollo is, and how addictive reddit can be sans the dark patterns.
- plodman 3y agoAbsolutely this. I’ve only had a single Home Screen since Apple added the App Library. I’ve always had Apollo in the same position. I swapped it out with my grocery app. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve opened that grocery app without thinking.
- PMunch 3y agoI put an app timer in my Digital Wellbeing settings for RiF, with 0 minutes allowed per day. I'm surprised how many times I had to see that "You've exceeded your minutes for today" message just from pure habitual clicking.
- sureglymop 3y agoI did the same with other social media apps like Instagram a while ago. What I realized is that since then, I am filling up the time spent on those platforms otherwise. Now I am constantly refreshing hacker news or my YouTube subscription feed instead. So while it's still procrastination it's at least a little more productive and without ads.
- fallinghawks 3y agoI haven't uninstalled, but I had to hide my Sync icon in a folder I open rarely, to keep from clicking it out of habit. Staying away from Reddit hasn't been too hard but it gets new stuff faster than the newspapers or other media sites I regularly go to. This forces me to slow down and read the other sites' articles more thoroughly which is probably good.
- t-sauer 3y agoI added reddit.com to my ad blocker and the amount of times I saw the message that the site is blocked is embarrassing high. Really highlighted to me how opening up reddit is basically muscle memory.
- kazinator 3y agoI quit Reddit, what, two years ago, was it? This past week, I did what I've been putting off; I erased all my posts, while the API is still there.
- kazinator 3y agoRead, Eval, Diagree, Downvote, Insult Treadmill
- joshthecynic 3y ago[dead]
- sunaurus 3y agoI've also spent a day away from Reddit, but unfortunately, Lemmy has completely replaced my Reddit addiction. Net effect is that nothing has changed, and I bet I'm not the only one in this boat.
- senectus1 3y agois there a decent mobile client?
- zodmaner 3y agoJerboa [1,2] by official Lemmy developers works pretty well for me. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jerboa/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jerboa/ [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jerboa&hl=en&gl=US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jerboa&hl=...
- tbjoern 3y ago> I’ve spent a day away from tobacco, but unfortunately weed has completely replaced that addiction > Do you know a good dealer?
- senectus1 3y agohaha ok, but I'm not addicted. It just gives me something to read when I'm waiting for things like the bus or dr office etc
- newqer 3y agoReplacing Reddit with Lemmy is like giving Meth to a cocaine addict.
- Z7YCx5ieof4Std 3y agoThe blackout made me aware how much I visited reddit. And a lot less reddit is probably a good thing. Am gonna lurk more than actively participate probably.
- reddisbad 3y agoDon't lurk! It wastes nearly as much time and mental energy as being an active participant. It took me ages to break my Reddit lurking habit, long after I'd deleted my account.
- febed 3y agoI have been off Reddit for almost a year, it’s too addictive. The thing that worked for me was the iOS ScreenTime feature with a thrown away PIN.
- vxNsr 3y agoWow, so you don’t know the pin… is there even a way to get around that short of resetting? I use screen time without a pin, the pop up is just enough to pull me away from w/e is I’m trying to block. I also block certain sites completely with Ad blockers. They’re sites that are unusable without an adblocker so if I try to disable the Adblock it’s not worth it.
- rvz 3y agoIf you are going to 'leave' the platform, do not take just one day. Delete your entire account forever. Staying on the platform just prolongs the addiction and replacing it with another social network is not the solution.
- JaumeGreen 3y agoA bit hyperbolic in their narration. I think the ones here talking about how addictive it was and how you keep reaching for it bring more to the table. I deleted my account and removed it from Firefox's quick link. I also uninstalled Instagram and Facebook to not replace it with mindless scrolling. And here I am, visiting other pages a bit too much. I guess it'll take some time to disconnect completely from it and replace it with something useful.
- alfresco 3y ago[dead]
- voltagex_ 3y agoYuck, blockchain.
- alphakilo 3y agodo you have any actual thoughts against web3 or is it just your bête noire?
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- PUSH_AX 3y agoSlow, expensive, complex, immature.
- smokey_circles 3y ago... So every single early computer innovation then?
- PUSH_AX 3y agoYeah innovation is known for being terrible in most aspects... Or do you simply mean early tech? Because if so there are strong reasons to wait for things to mature before using them for common use-cases.
- alfresco 3y agoBitcoin is a true innovation Web3 is a scam. There's nothing there. It's all completely centralized, rife with insider premines and intellectually dishonest snake oil gimmicks. Silicon valley start ups issuing shares on a blockchain to escape from silicon valley regulations.
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- bwoodward 3y agoI mod a few subs (largest is just over half a million.) While they're relatively easy to mod, I really enjoyed not having to check a queue, not having to deal with a lot of whiners in modmail, and definitely not having to deal with trolls and spammers. Pretty nice. I blew that time today on browsing through a Lemmy node, but for the next two days I'm going to focus that time elsewhere... maybe I'll make fresh pasta.
- noduerme 3y agoSo basically not even a temporary hobby?
- drefinel 3y agoI should have spent the day away from reddit but I didn't, and actually this was the best experience I've had using the site in a while! there's significantly less politics, I discovered some cool new subreddits due to so many of the biggest communities being closed, threads were pleasantly concise, and I just felt like it was a much more mentally healthy scrolling experience. it's too bad that this is all going to end in a couple days and it'll be back to normal except without rif.
- samus 3y agoYou can always hide all those subreddits that don't appeal to you.
- bborud 3y agoI quit visiting Reddit daily 6-7 years ago. The reason is very simple: I asked myself what value Reddit provides in my life. What will I remember from yesterday's browsing? Or last week. Or last month. Am I really going to miss out on anything? I made the same exercise with several online newspapers. If I can't remember what I read yesterday, whatever I read was probably a waste of time. I stopped reading at least 3 low quality newspapers in roughly the same period. Reddit isn't worth hours every week. You are not getting that time back. It isn't quality time spent on things that enrich you. You have to care for yourself and be more picky about what you spend your time and attention on. Quitting stuff is good for you.
- erfgh 3y agoIf you can't remember what you read yesterday on the newspaper the problem might not lie with the newspaper.
- bborud 3y agoWell, isn't it perhaps a bit of a chicken and egg problem? What came first? The bad habit of skimming a lot of low quality nonsense news or the fact that it meant so little to you that you can't really remember what you read later? When I look at the traffic even from Hacker News you can kind of tell that most people who click on links even here, just spend a few seconds looking at your content and then disengage. Especially if you don't provide people with lots of pictures and "hooks" that allow people to engage more in some way. Give people a wall of text and they'll barely skim what you write.
- asim 3y agoThis is it. Clean up your life. What you do in your 20s is not the same as 30s or 40s, etc. That might speak to the people you interact with as well. I was "searching" for something on reddit and other places like it. Spending time with friends, getting married, having kids, it changes all of that. Real people interaction pulls you away from the place where so much idle time is spent. There is no time for reddit when you're living your real life. But we all go through the phases. Its just not clear reddit is the place to have healthy discussions.
- noduerme 3y agoI'm not a redditor, not even a lurker, but I'm going to repost my sub here from a few days ago, how I was banned from WSB in a matter of one post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36262192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36262192 And follow this up to say that in the days after that, I was subjected to a vast array of hate and abuse, including things like "groomers should die", etc. when I wasn't even beginning to an express a political opinion about what Target sells or who should sell what bathing suit, or anything like that. I was super happy to see the (stupid, pointless, pathetically idiotic) "strike" go into effect the next day, because my fondest wish would be for that entire ecosystem to fall over and choke on its own vomit.
- redsaber 3y agoblackout reminded me of checking other websites which is nice change of pace. Probably reduce time in reddit in the future
- HumanBojack 3y agoThis looks like a trip report
- rex64 3y agoI've attempted to quit social media several times, so this article really resonates with me but breaking away completely is difficult. Often, online searches steer me towards threads on Reddit, which makes it hard not to get pulled in. I believe it's train yourself to use these platforms intentionally, rather than just mindlessly scrolling.
- insickness 3y agoA few years ago I noticed the phenomenon where I would walk outside and couldn't for the life of me remember what I'd been doing for the few hours. It happened a few times and then I realized that this happens when I was on Reddit (or other similar online endless scrolling).
- disparate_dan 3y agoI posted this already on a similar thread. I’m very aware during deliberately not visiting Reddit these last two days, that I’m missing the ‘dopamine hits’ from the controversial posts and outrage bait more than the loss of information and discovery.