What Are the Various Strategies to Wean Yourself Off Reddit?
What Are the Various Strategies to Wean Yourself Off Reddit?
Lemmy is active enough as is and the apps are great but I still have that unfortunate ingrained habit where I keep coming back to abusive Reddit.
I should instead focus my attention to contributing to the conversation here, sharing articles and creating original content.
I went cold turkey when the whole API pricing change thing went down.
If you haven't been successful in quitting (cold turkey or otherwise) Reddit, I'd say do some introspection on the topic of what keeps you coming back to Reddit. What specifically do you find yourself thinking about when you're wanting to open Reddit?
Once you have an answer to that question, maybe think about just how beneficial it is to you. If it's beneficial, maybe try to make something similar a thing on Lemmy. If it's less beneficial and more just addictive gamification that you don't actually value, practice some mindfulness around it. When you feel yourself desiring to go consume some Reddit, just observe that desire nonjudgementally until it goes away.
Don't comment, don't upvote or downvote. Use it read only from now. Watch the AI comments shitify the whole site until it's so bad you'll want to leave it anyway.
The comments on Reddit are so bad these days. I see so many spelling mistakes and nonsensical ones.
My app quit working, and I never downloaded the official one. Problem solved!
This is the way. I miss my baconreader app, but haven't looked back.
Get permabanned. My offense: virulent anti-nazism (the offending comment had 64 up votes when it was deleted). Not very compelling once they ban you. I commented that we should take President Eisenhower's approach to dealing with Nazis on a post that had a picture of Nazis marching in Wisconsin.
I got permabanned for inciting violence against places when I sarcastically told another commenter that their idea to pour concrete over new housing construction sites would surely solve the housing crisis.
I too was permabanned for inciting violence. I suggested Princess Leia should strangle Trump with her chain. Is this a new thing maybe? The story is common.
I like Lemmy. It reminds me of early reddit. For me, it's a shame to watch it slowly bring more of the dumb junk I didn't like into the mix. It's inevitable, I guess, but the memes and reddit culture are bleeding out of their containers and into the other sections. Im seeing more balanced views and it's kind of nice to read intelligent posts from people I disagree with rather than the mudslinging from common reddit views. There's safety in numbers, and people know what is reddit-popular to say. Opposing views are buried there.
i switched fully and immediately, originally to fling up and them lemmy.blahaj.zone too.
Delete your account. Make it feel final.
I just left once my 3rd party app stopped working and never went back because Lemmy sufficiently fills the void.
Same here, miss my bacon reader
That is literally the only thing I miss about reddit, BUT Voyager is pretty top notch these days.
Yup, can't imagine using reddits almost sadistic UX.
It's so poorly designed it feels like a slap to the face to even see a screenshot.
Not patronizing Reddit and instead spend quality time trying to make Lemmy better.
The app I was using got broken so I left
A cold turkey move to the Fediverse.
At this point, your presence and activity on reddit cannot make reddit better. Reddit's tipping point has been reached. It is beyond saving.
Similarly, your presence and activity on fediverse can make fediverse better. While this might change, at present it is true. In any case, at least you will have a more informed opinion on fediverse later on if you expand your experience and interaction with it now.
Can i cross reply from lemmy.world to lemmy.ca?
And yes i can
Delete reddit from your history entirely. Wipe it off the face of your browser as if it never existed. That helped with me since I do most of my navigation via address bar recommendations and the speed dial page.
In my experience, you can simply talk about how you can't wait for conservatives to die from listeria after the new head of HHS recommends drinking listeria, and you'll get banned for glorifying violence
That's made it a lot easier to avoid wasting time on there
That will get you banned around here too though if you aren't careful.
Two nights of drinking and rage commenting around election day has eliminated my need to browse politicalmemes though... So maybe still fine?
set a rule for yourself, the moment you feel your blood pressure rising because of something on reddit, close it out and don't go back for a while.
edit: I just did this for myself and lasted about 25 seconds before I saw something stupid enough to make me want to choke the person through the screen. reddit is back on the block list :)
Yeah... That ain't me.
I'm more of a "you're the one that sucks, why should I leave?" kind of guy. Which basically means you tell people what you think until they ban you and then it's no problem anymore.
I just don't use Reddit
Im not sure. once I had an alternative I never went back. I mean don't go to reddit unless you have nothing to hang here for and if you do you have wwwwwwaaaaaaaayyy to much time on your hands.
sever your latent emotions towards it and let it die in your heart. easy
I did it by doing a download of all my posts, and then deleted my account and everything I ever wrote there. I understand the argument that that this is "bad for the internet," but I'm not interested in helping Reddit profit off my labor when I'm not using their service. Also, it's a no-takeh backs approach; once I did it, I couldn't go back, short of creating a new account, which is easy for me to resist.
Pick another social media to use in it's place.
i put in a plugin/browser block so i dont accidentally go there. if i ever need to, i have to disable it or open a private window. the extra steps worked at preventing relapse.
Delete the app off of your phone and set your swipe on your launcher to open your Lemmy app of choice. All I have to do is be on my home screen and swipe right with one finger and my Thunder app opens right up.
An app that only lets you view, like RDX, because what usually keeps people addicted is the replies and notifications
Aggressively seeding fedi discussions
Sub.rehab can help you find equivalent communities to the subreddits you visit. If there isn't a Fediverse version of your community yet, start your own. That's what I did.
If you're nostalgic for Old Reddit, use "Old" Lemmy.
That's great for the larger communities, but a lot of us stay on reddit for the tiny subreddits specific to one piece of media. The only two active online spaces where I can discuss my various decades-old anime are Reddit and MAL's forums, and lord knows I ain't using MAL's forums
I'd say ani.social is in need of a retro anime community. Go create one! I might join it, even. I hear people talk about the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006) like it's retro now and I feel really old.
What did it for me is I logged in one day and there was a post about bathroom politics having the same discussion we've been having for years with the most cringe takes I've ever seen.
When I realized that Reddit was leaning further right than it ever had, that was the last straw for me. It feels like 4chan light now.
I saw some transphobes on r/VictoriaBC commenting that
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“they don’t care” & “why are they wasting money on this” under the story of UVIC having the largest transgender archive and the moderators left those up… not mention they regularly attack folks with substance use disorders saying “we’re too soft on them”
I had to unsubscribe and block that subreddit.