How do you kick the Reddit habit? - Blåhaj Lemmy

cw: TERFs and general transphobia For the most part, I avoid Reddit like the plague, but when I’m feeling sad, I find myself going on r/terf_trans_alliance, and then I feel worse. I don’t know what drives them to participate, but the minority of trans posters are ridiculed, subjected to abusive comments, and mass downvoted for any attempt to get through to them in a way that isn’t absolute self-flagellating placation. Some things I noticed after just a minute or two of scrolling: -The term “TRA” -Accusations of male socialization, with some gaslighting when trans people try to discuss their personal experiences about their upbringings -Accusations of “mansplaining” -Assumptions that trans women are predatory -Assumptions that trans women have an entitlement complex -Accusations that trans women conform to rigid misogynist stereotypes, but also that trans women are too masculine to embody what they identify as -The comparison of being trans to a cultist religion -The insinuation that upvotes or kind words “shields trans people from reality” -I know this is an overused term, but gaslighting -Casual references to trans women, whether indirectly or directly to trans commenters/OPs, as men or males -The likening of trans women to white supremacists There’s this stereotype that Reddit is this liberal echo chamber, but I seem to know all of the many places where it’s not, and I seek out those places when I know I shouldn’t. For those of you just on Lemmy, what are your strategies not to stray back to Reddit??