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[โ€“] LunaCtld 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have not been active on Reddit for a while. I mainly just doomscrolled a bit in the morning and evening. My habit for a long time.

During the blackout I still caught myself doing that but stopped it over the days afterwards. My feed mostly still worked but I also noticed the interesting posts I actually looked deeper into seemed to vanish (or I just doomscrolled less and didn't find them).

I've finally stopped that habit now (though I liked it since it was not excessive and hope to replace it with Lemmy).

Especially since my Reddit-App of choice, Infinity, will be switching to subscribe-only (decent way tbh) I don't see myself paying for it for the bit I use it. And I won't go back to the offcial app. That one started (literally!) draining my battery like crazy because Pi-Hole blocked the trackers and it kept Brute-Force attempting to connect to a specific one. My smartphone was hot for up to 2-3 hours after using reddit. I reported the issue, it got supposedly fixed, then returned a few days later (after which I switched to a 3rd party app). Otherwise I actually liked the official app and didn't have any (other) performance issues at all.