how do i stop wanting to use reddit all the time?
from golden_king@lemmy.dbzer0.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 15 Mar 10:19
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/65395489
from golden_king@lemmy.dbzer0.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 15 Mar 10:19
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Pick up a hobby to fill that mental gap 🙂
I was like that at first, it went away over time. Now I have zero desire to spend time on that site.
Find the most distasteful subrdit you can find, and sub to it.
Any of the US news related subs right?
Post 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 I’d 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 didn’t anymore. Sure there’s not the avalanche of content here, but there’s 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.
This is the way. Deleted my account and all my comments and posts before the account and after a while of seeing how crap the posts were from web searches I told my search engine to filter that domain along with other cancer sites wikihow and fandom
If you can’t bring yourself to give it up, at least use it productively: if you see something interesting there, copy it and post it on the Fediverse.
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 wasn’t trying to get banned at the time, but I certainly got the message that honest opinions aren’t 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.
The atheism sub perma banned me under the accusation of advocating for the harm of children for a one off random comment and I was suddenly just done. When I asked the mod about it I was given a string of personal attacks and muted. It was bizarre.
I 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 can’t 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 it’s just opinions.
Slowly unsubscribe from things that aren’t worth your time, and remove apps and shortcuts to disrupt your unconscious muscle memory.
You can also fill that time with other things, it doesn’t necessarily have to be other social media :)
This works.
Make a new community on your instance and be its caretaker. Post the content you want there to be, even if it’s a small niche. The variety and depth you add improves everyone’s Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin/Friendica experience, even if your niche isn’t for everyone.
My #1 tip for stopping media addiction is to turn off notifications. There is simply nothing going on that requires your immediate attention. It can wait until you have time to check. Try it!
Sometimes (since i still go on there for porn) Ill switch to all and within the first three posts I see some kind of cringe which just does not exist here and reminds me just how much better this place is, atleast for now.
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. You’ll 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.
I spent a good bit of time curating my follows on Lemmy/PieFed, so I see things that interest me here and don’t need to go back to Reddit. I still do occasionally for some niche stuff that’s not really available here, but I spend the bulk of my time here.
I 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), I’d 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 I’ve already spent much less time doomscrolling online since this place isn’t filled with rage-baiting bot content.
Enrichment. Take up a creative hobby. You don’t have to be good, just be creating stuff you want to create.
Music, food, plants, drawings, sculpture, journal, creative writing, exercise, knitting, flower pressing, dorodangos (literally polishing a ball of dirt). 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. I’m 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.
Example, one of my hobbies is motorcycles and the riding them. I have zero posts in r/motorcycle or c/motorcycles. Because I’m busy riding them and meeting people to ride them.
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? Your hobby might be the gathering of tips and ideas. Want to spend less time on Reddit, spend more time executing the ideas and tips you’re 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 (in a browser), but without logging in, and without ever looking at the home feed.
I haven’t commented on Reddit or used the app in months now. TBH, I’m 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.
www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/
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 “a better experience”.
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.
see it as it is; full of shitty people with maybe some decent ones sprinkled here and there, owned by even shittier people. How ever it is now, it will get worse in future. Sooner you get off, easier time you will have since eventually it will get to the point you have to leave or just accept everything and hate yourself for it.
Develop some contempt towards corporations in general -> it goes long way to help resist their bullshit.
If you usually go on Reddit on your phone, you could use parental controls to block the website with a passcode. Make sure you don’t know the passcode. Have it set by someone you trust, and tell them to never tell you what it is
By clarifying to yourself why you don’t want to use it anymore. So far, your reasoning apparently isn’t very convincing yet.
Get a perm.ban , thats easy .
And start talking to your wife and kids 🤔🤔
Try using it without an account. Ween yourself off it by using a different front end like redlib. It sucks using it that way but it’ll make you want to use it less and less.
The red bar at the top of reddit saying I was permabanned got annoying after a few days
Habits oft take about 1-season to train.
endure, & the unconscious-mind change’ll happen.
I’m autistic/woodenheaded, & even I made the switch, some years ago.
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Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.