I just catched myself looking at reddit again.
To remind myself not to use reddit in the next few days (or never again if I succeed) I added it to my uBlock filter list. Additionally I deleted all reddit apps from my phone.
What’s your strategy on how to avoid reddit?
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I deleted my account
I put the Jerboa app icon where Baconreader had been on my phone. I kept opening it by reflex. This seems to be working.
This is the way.
Me too. Sorry Boost, I will miss you.
Once Apollo is gone for good, I’ll delete the app and that’ll be it. Reddit has too much useful info for me to block it entirely similar to Twitter. But also like Twitter, once the app is gone from my phone my usage pretty much drops to zero. I’ve already replaced Apollo with Mlem on my homepage, but I’m leaving Apollo installed until the end.
In /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 reddit.com 127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com 127.0.0.1 old.reddit.comMake it the pornhub IP
Hmmm will this work on my work laptop too?
In school, the first thing I did on my Arch Linux Laptop is to put google.com to the pornhub ip. Don’t know why it should not work on any device.
A simple low impact one I came up with is moving the Jerboa app icon to where the reddit one used to be and moving the reddit one to the end of the list, so my muscle memory reddit log on takes me here instead.
Literally did the same.
Same here as well. I uninstalled rif and replaced its icon with Jerboa. I don’t even notice the difference until the screen loads 😄
i use libredirect
I use libredirect’s firefox extention
That’s… why I’m here.
Paused rif and moved Jerboa to the spot where it normally is on my launcher
Uninstalled Apollo (Christian plz forgive me). Deleted my account.
Don’t worry, he feels just as bad as you for all of the evil Reddit has done to all of us.
I think they would understand
I uninstalled Sync for Reddit on my Android phone.
I’m going to backup the content I created over the years and fry my account in the afternoon.
Easy, I just deleted my 10+ years Reddit account.
No regrets, and am now having fun exploring the fediverse.
The fact that I’m digging lemmy is helping. Feels new and adventurous.
Uninstalled Apollo and put Mlem in its spot
I’m not really concerned about avoiding it. Most of the subreddits with content I’d want to read are or will be closed. I only am using the old site, logged out, and with an adblocker. I’m a negative value visitor.
Keep using it if you want to, don’t treat it like a tiktok challenge.
I spend an unhealthy amount of time on reddit. So I realized I have to make changes. The timing of things helped me to make the decision easier.
