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?

  • elavat0r
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    242 years ago

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

  • Rick
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    2 years 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 @havilland@lemmy.ml!

  • whoopingsneeze
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    102 years ago

    In /etc/hosts:

    127.0.0.1 reddit.com
    127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com
    127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com
    
    
  • @shinratdr@lemmy.ca
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    92 years ago

    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.

    • FlowerTree
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      12 years ago

      If we could implement reddit scrapers (I think stealth for reddit is one of them), it might help us to acess reddit without using the shitty app or even an account. Scrapers aren’t exactly great if you want to post stuff on reddit, not that you would want to…

    • Rick
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      2 years ago

      I uninstalled RIF this morning. I saw when I rated it on the play store saying that I loved using the app for reddit that I had recently started using… September 2011… Geeeeez. The feels.

      • Raiden11X
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        22 years ago

        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.

        • Rick
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          12 years ago

          Agreed. RIF hands down and several times over was my most used app of all time. It will be missed.

  • ddh
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    72 years ago

    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.

  • steffo
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    72 years ago

    I added reddit.com to my uBlock Origin blocklist!

  • @psychothumbs@lemmy.world
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    72 years ago

    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.

  • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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    62 years 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.

    • @havilland@lemmy.mlOP
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      52 years ago

      I spend an unhealthy amount of time on reddit. So I realized I have to make changes. The timing of things helped me to make the decision easier.

  • @CodeCheper@lemmygrad.ml
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    32 years 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.