Lemmy is active enough as is and the apps are great but I still have that unfortunate ingrained habit where I keep coming back to abusive Reddit.
I should instead focus my attention to contributing to the conversation here, sharing articles and creating original content.
Get permabanned. My offense: virulent anti-nazism (the offending comment had 64 up votes when it was deleted). Not very compelling once they ban you. I commented that we should take President Eisenhower’s approach to dealing with Nazis on a post that had a picture of Nazis marching in Wisconsin.
I got permabanned for inciting violence against places when I sarcastically told another commenter that their idea to pour concrete over new housing construction sites would surely solve the housing crisis.
i switched fully and immediately, originally to fling up and them lemmy.blahaj.zone too.
Don’t comment, don’t upvote or downvote. Use it read only from now. Watch the AI comments shitify the whole site until it’s so bad you’ll want to leave it anyway.
The comments on Reddit are so bad these days. I see so many spelling mistakes and nonsensical ones.
Delete your account. Make it feel final.
Delete reddit from your history entirely. Wipe it off the face of your browser as if it never existed. That helped with me since I do most of my navigation via address bar recommendations and the speed dial page.
sever your latent emotions towards it and let it die in your heart. easy
The app I was using got broken so I left
Pick another social media to use in it’s place.
I just left once my 3rd party app stopped working and never went back because Lemmy sufficiently fills the void.
Same here, miss my bacon reader
Yup, can’t imagine using reddits almost sadistic UX.
It’s so poorly designed it feels like a slap to the face to even see a screenshot.
My app quit working, and I never downloaded the official one. Problem solved!
This is the way. I miss my baconreader app, but haven’t looked back.
I went cold turkey when the whole API pricing change thing went down.
If you haven’t been successful in quitting (cold turkey or otherwise) Reddit, I’d say do some introspection on the topic of what keeps you coming back to Reddit. What specifically do you find yourself thinking about when you’re wanting to open Reddit?
Once you have an answer to that question, maybe think about just how beneficial it is to you. If it’s beneficial, maybe try to make something similar a thing on Lemmy. If it’s less beneficial and more just addictive gamification that you don’t actually value, practice some mindfulness around it. When you feel yourself desiring to go consume some Reddit, just observe that desire nonjudgementally until it goes away.
In my experience, you can simply talk about how you can’t wait for conservatives to die from listeria after the new head of HHS recommends drinking listeria, and you’ll get banned for glorifying violence
That’s made it a lot easier to avoid wasting time on there
set a rule for yourself, the moment you feel your blood pressure rising because of something on reddit, close it out and don’t go back for a while.
edit: I just did this for myself and lasted about 25 seconds before I saw something stupid enough to make me want to choke the person through the screen. reddit is back on the block list :)
Not patronizing Reddit and instead spend quality time trying to make Lemmy better.
A cold turkey move to the Fediverse.
