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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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
The ol switcheroo
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.
I deleted Reddit from my phone, and the mobile site is shite, so I won’t be going on there.
I occasionally look at old Reddit on my computer, but I just put Lemmy in it’s place on my tab bar. Works great so far.
Kept a note at my home screen about Reddit Black Out. And logged out of Infinity. Now, everytime I unlock my phone, I see that note and open Lemmy🥂
I just deleted/hid the Apollo app and put Mlem in the same spot in my app list. Now when my muscle memory goes to open up Reddit, I’m on lemmy instead
So is mlem just for apple? I tried searching for it and only found jerboa which I do like just fine.
I installed a “focus” app on my phone. I set it to prevent launches of Boost (my third party app of choice) and the Reddit app (which I installed a while back and never bothered getting rid of) for the next two days.
When I try to launch either app, the focus app will tell me that I can’t. I tested it this morning just to make sure it was working. Now, even if I try to visit Reddit out of force of habit, I’ll have blocked myself from going there.
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.
Same here as well. I uninstalled rif and replaced its icon with Jerboa. I don’t even notice the difference until the screen loads 😄
Literally did the same.
With most subs gone dark there’s basically no content anyway. I’ll probably keep checking until RiF stops working. I’m never going to use the official app or website.
Yeah the fact that I’d have to download a new app and find a new flow if I stayed makes it a lot easier to leave.
I’m sucking at it. I keep sneaking over there to check for new modmails begging to be “let in” to the subreddits etc.
I’ve set a privacy redirect from Reddit to https://libreddit.pufe.org. Now I can’t log in, but if people send me links then I can see what they sent. If I want to comment on things, I’ll come to Lemmy.
I logged in to Reddit this morning for perhaps the last time, to extract my list of subreddit subscriptions. While I was there I noticed I had a bunch of “Reddit Coins”, didn’t even know that was a thing. Missed opportunity for “Creddits” IMO.
Ive been here a few days the content is already a lot. Sub to communities. Start a community. Get to commenting, posting or even lurking! Be the change @havilland@lemmy.ml !
Paused rif and moved Jerboa to the spot where it normally is on my launcher
I uninstalled RIF this morning. I saw when I commented on it saying that I loved using the app for reddit that I had recently started using… September 2011… Geeeeez. The feels.
rif and Relay were the two I used depending on how I was feeling that day. Excellent apps. Paid for both and I’ll be sad to see them go.
Agreed. RIF hands down and several times over was my most used app of all time. It will be missed.
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.
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.
I am similar, I do have an account of 8+ years, but posted only maybe 25 times, hardly ever comment. I also use the old site. I only consume content for entertainment and news, and a few hobbies. Since I don’t post often, I would also be a negative value to them.
I can easily find my news directly from the publishers, and entertainment can be changed to something else such as TV shows and movies, or even more educational material, as for hobbies it was only for games and RC cars.
I deleted my account
I’ve got a link to lemmy next to my reddit sync app, so I will see this every time I would have looked at reddit.
