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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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I put the Jerboa app icon where Baconreader had been on my phone. I kept opening it by reflex. This seems to be working.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Pretty much! I still haven't even deleted Boost, but the icon has been replaced and I've already all but forgotten about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Me too. Sorry Boost, I will miss you.

[–] psychothumbs 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Literally did the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Did the same thing earlier today.

I have an RSS feed reader that shows the first few posts on r/popular. As of now it's basically "x sub has gone dark" for every other post.

Keep it going.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same here as well. I uninstalled rif and replaced its icon with Jerboa. I don't even notice the difference until the screen loads πŸ˜„

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I deleted my account

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 @[email protected]!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 reddit.com
127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com
127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The ol switcheroo

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[–] LittleKerr 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Replaced RIF icon with Jerboa's one. Beat that, muscle memory

[–] Crackhappy 2 points 1 year ago

That's exactly what I did too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Paused rif and moved Jerboa to the spot where it normally is on my launcher

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I added reddit.com to my uBlock Origin blocklist!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That's... why I'm here.

[–] MiddleWeigh 7 points 1 year ago

The fact that I'm digging lemmy is helping. Feels new and adventurous.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

i use libredirect

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uninstalled Apollo (Christian plz forgive me). Deleted my account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, he feels just as bad as you for all of the evil Reddit has done to all of us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] goddamnpipes 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy seems to cover most of the content from larger subreddits. For the smaller, or more specific communities (such as local subreddits or those for hobbies/interests) they generally have a Discord server to join.

So between Lemmy and Discord, I've eliminated the need to use Reddit at all. This isn't without it's flaws or drawbacks, but it 'scratches the Reddit itch', I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there any list of the larger communities on here? I've hadn't had much luck just browsing all

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[–] rollingFlint 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Easy, I just deleted my 10+ years Reddit account.

No regrets, and am now having fun exploring the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I should be considering deleting my account as well. The low karma doesn't allow me to shitpost

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I deleted the app I was using to browse reddit (Infinity) and have blocked reddit.com system-wide on my computer. Admittedly this is a bit overkill for me but it's an easy solution.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Uninstalled Apollo and put Mlem in its spot

[–] Bretzel 4 points 1 year ago

Reddit tries to force all mobile users to use their trash client so it will be quite easy for me to avoid Reddit cause I will never install this thing. Viva Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I uninstalled RIF tonight and keep finding myself searching for it on my home screen lol Will get used to it eventually I guess. I'm opening Jerboa every time I catch myself to retrain myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Put a 1 minute usage limit a day, this makes the icon greyed out and reminds me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I added an iOS shortcut automation to my iPhone. If I open Apollo, the shortcut runs and sends me to Mlem, then pops up a reminder.

I’ve exported my posts and comments. Just need to get my subscriptions list and I’m done.

I plan to overwrite my comments and posts with a text that explains why the original is removed. That way, for as long as Reddit survives, there’s a chance someone will see it and learn about how not to screw over your user base.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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 LemmyπŸ₯‚

[–] harbo 2 points 1 year ago

I only browsed Reddit through Apollo so it will be very easy for me to stop using Reddit. There’s no way I’m downloading their awful app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I might just dump it altogether, I only lurk anyway and the communities I subscribe to are mainly for humor. I haven't checked it in several days now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not having a mobile app will automatically curtail a lot of my usage. I'll probably keep using the desktop site though until they kill off old Reddit.

[–] bwrsandman 2 points 1 year ago

I moved the RedditSync app out of my main icons but still caught myself opening up Sync.

However nothing could load because I created a block rule on my router just in case.

Side note: I almost never posted on my 10+ years of using Reddit because by the time I saw a thread it would have hundreds of responses. Here I find it much more natural to reply to posts.

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