golden_kinghow do i stop wanting to use reddit all the time?
Find the most distasteful subrdit you can find, and sub to it.
CerebralHawksPost that you think people who abuse children should receive stricter punishments under the law.
Reddit will make the decision for you.
get addicted to lemmy instead
That was my strategy. Thought Iād give the fediverse a try during the blackout protests over the API lockdown. I missed reddit for a little while, but after a while I just didnāt anymore. Sure thereās not the avalanche of content here, but thereās substantially less bullshit too. Now if I end up back on reddit from a search for something in particular, I find myself amazed at how shit it all is.
I got kicked off Reddit for posting that punching Nazis was a good thing.
I said #FuckSpez and it worked like a charm.
To each his own, I guess.
To quote the meme, I like this one better.
To be fair, I wasnāt trying to get banned at the time, but I certainly got the message that honest opinions arenāt allowed on that site quickly enough.
I got a warning for pointing out how fucked up it is to obliterate a a school full of kids, but somehow destroying oil-producing infrastructure is considered indecent, according to Trump. So, I just deleted my account for good.
whalerossI get banned left and right for making fun of nazis and reminding people that every day is punch a nazi day.
The nazis are such fragile snowflakes they canāt take some banter and the mods are so afraid that someone is offended that they take the side of weeping self identifying nazis that are backing murder en masse, which is apparently all okay because itās just opinions.
OtterSlowly unsubscribe from things that arenāt worth your time, and remove apps and shortcuts to disrupt your unconscious muscle memory.
You can also fill that time with other things, it doesnāt necessarily have to be other social media :)
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The Velour Fog Get very opinionated and say a lot of anti-Nazi stuff in admin-controlled subreddits like r/news. Shit on Elon Musk and DOGE. Celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk. Be pro-Palestine. Say Fuck Spez a lot. Youāll be permbanned in less than a month.
Their AI admin is turned up to 11 when detecting ban evasion (from humans, bots not so much), so it will be difficult to make an account again without getting permbanned instantly.
It worked for me.
NusmI did it slowly over time. Every time reddit made a site wide change that worsened the user experience (which has been a lot since I joined a decade ago), Iād take one step to distance myself. First it was unsubscribing from major subreddits and engaging less, then staying logged out, then deleting the app but browsing on the web, and finally reddit pissed me off enough to try an alternative. So far Iāve already spent much less time doomscrolling online since this place isnāt filled with rage-baiting bot content.
Enrichment. Take up a creative hobby. You donāt have to be good, just be creating stuff you want to create.
Music, food, plants, drawings, sculpture, journal, creative writing, exercise. Be building something, you need enrichment. Learn to sing/instrument. Start a sourdough starter (why did sourdough become popular when we locked indoors? Enrichment). Get some pencils and scrap book. Start a indoor/outdoor garden.
Pick something appropriate to your time/budget. Time rich, money poor: pick something you can fuss over for a long time and is no more expensive than a pack of pencils. Time poor, money poor: Mediterranean herbs thrive on neglect, start a rosemary plant.
Tried this. Unfortunately ime the best creative hobby communities are still on reddit. Iām on it as much as I ever was, but my subs changed.
Your hobby might not have been doing the hobby. But, talking with people doing the hobby then. Less talk about doing the thing, more do the thing.
I find it helpful to get ideas and tips from a community, especially for creative hobbies.
Do you spend most of your time getting ideas and tips or executing them? Want to spend less time on Reddit, spend more time exciting the ideas and tips youāre gathering.
I do both. I find the tips and ideas helpful for executing.
What I did:
Deleted the app. I still go directly to the subreddit pages I want to see, but without logging in, and without ever looking at the home feed.
I havenāt commented on Reddit or used the app in months now. TBH, Iām even annoyed I have to go over there for my niche subs, because I hate the advertisements. I really do enjoy lemmy more than Reddit now.
i may do that. as for the ads you should have firefox + ublock origin or brave to block ads.
Brave is spyware. Stop recommending brave.
it isnt really,its even open source you can read its code.
Deleting the app did wonders for me. Well, Reddit deleted the app FOR me (Apollo user), and I refused to install their adware app onto my phone.
Forced me to only use it on PC, because visiting via phone browser showed like 3 comments on thread, then linked to some other thread, and insisted I install their adware for āa better experienceā.
PC I was still browsing and occasionally commenting on old.reddit for a while, with uBlock on high censorship mode. But all my mobile browsing was gone.
a_gee_dizzleIf you usually go on Reddit on your phone, you could use parental controls to block the website with a passcode. Make sure you donāt know the passcode. Have it set by someone you trust, and tell them to never tell you what it is
LumidaubTry using it without an account. Ween yourself off it by using a different front end like redlib. It sucks using it that way but itāll make you want to use it less and less.
WiddershinsThe red bar at the top of reddit saying I was permabanned got annoying after a few days
šMedicPigš·BabySaveršFuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.