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I rarely set out to go to Reddit (in the sense of “my task is to read Reddit”), but I pretty frequently land on Reddit from search results. I think the Reddit

I rarely set out to go to Reddit (in the sense of “my task is to read Reddit”), but I pretty frequently land on Reddit from search results. I think the Reddit utility was substantially reduced for that use case (too often landing on a closed subreddit) and that damage could last far beyond when this protest ends/is ended. I sure won’t be adding “reddit” to the end of my search queries for a while!

AlexErrant 3y ago
This is how I've been boycotting Reddit myself; I'll click native google hits, but I won't visit the homepage/any subreddits directly. HN's filled that need somewhat.
- pierat 3y ago
  If I have to, I change the link from www.reddit.com/r/stuffgoeshere to www.reveddit.com/r/stuffgoeshere It's what I used as a undelete viewer, with power tripping mods and admins. I'm guessing it'll quit working tomorrow.
neilv 3y ago
I'm not boycotting Reddit, but years ago I had to un-train my fingers from unconsciously going to Reddit, because the value had gotten so low (or, on the front page overrun by manipulators years ago, it had negative value). The following Ublock Origin rules aren't perfect, but they mostly blocked the Reddit main page, which was what muscle memory would go to. While permitting search hits, links from HN, etc. ||old.reddit.com^ @@https://old.reddit.com/comments/* @@https://old.reddit.com/domain/* @@https://old.reddit.com/over18?* @@https://old.reddit.com/r/* @@https://old.reddit.com/search?* @@https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/search?* @@https://old.reddit.com/u/* @@https://old.reddit.com/user/* @@http://old.reddit.com/r/* @@http://old.reddit.com/u/* ||www.reddit.com^ @@https://www.reddit.com/comments/* @@https://www.reddit.com/domain/* @@https://www.reddit.com/gallery/* @@https://www.reddit.com/over18?* @@https://www.reddit.com/poll/* @@https://www.reddit.com/r/* @@https://www.reddit.com/search?* @@https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/search?* @@https://www.reddit.com/u/* @@https://www.reddit.com/user/* @@https://www.reddit.com/video/* @@http://www.reddit.com/r/* @@http://www.reddit.com/u/* In addition to using these UBO rules, I also deleted my bookmarks to subreddits.

AlexErrant 3y ago

This is how I've been boycotting Reddit myself; I'll click native google hits, but I won't visit the homepage/any subreddits directly. HN's filled that need somewhat.

pierat 3y ago
If I have to, I change the link from www.reddit.com/r/stuffgoeshere to www.reveddit.com/r/stuffgoeshere It's what I used as a undelete viewer, with power tripping mods and admins. I'm guessing it'll quit working tomorrow.

neilv 3y ago

I'm not boycotting Reddit, but years ago I had to un-train my fingers from unconsciously going to Reddit, because the value had gotten so low (or, on the front page overrun by manipulators years ago, it had negative value). The following Ublock Origin rules aren't perfect, but they mostly blocked the Reddit main page, which was what muscle memory would go to. While permitting search hits, links from HN, etc. ||old.reddit.com^ @@https://old.reddit.com/comments/* @@https://old.reddit.com/domain/* @@https://old.reddit.com/over18?* @@https://old.reddit.com/r/* @@https://old.reddit.com/search?* @@https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/search?* @@https://old.reddit.com/u/* @@https://old.reddit.com/user/* @@http://old.reddit.com/r/* @@http://old.reddit.com/u/* ||www.reddit.com^ @@https://www.reddit.com/comments/* @@https://www.reddit.com/domain/* @@https://www.reddit.com/gallery/* @@https://www.reddit.com/over18?* @@https://www.reddit.com/poll/* @@https://www.reddit.com/r/* @@https://www.reddit.com/search?* @@https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/search?* @@https://www.reddit.com/u/* @@https://www.reddit.com/user/* @@https://www.reddit.com/video/* @@http://www.reddit.com/r/* @@http://www.reddit.com/u/* In addition to using these UBO rules, I also deleted my bookmarks to subreddits.