I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it’s crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.
Unfortunately now we’re going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like “TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023” to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.
I’ve replaced Reddit Sync with Jerboa as a shortcut on my phone’s homescreen. This helps quite a bit as I noticed I opened Reddit out of habit (which isn’t great either)
You don’t really have to quit cold turkey. When I stopped using Digg I’d go back now and then but Reddit had become my go to. I phased it out over a little less than a month.
If you don’t run your own search (SearxNG) and dont use pihole, you can get the uBlacklist extension for chrome/firefox to blacklist Reddit in search results on Google/Bing/DDG/etc.
To deter myself further, I even went so far as to block any search results from Reddit in my SearxNG instance.
If anyone else is interested.
In settings.yml uncomment the following, they are commented out by default
enabled_plugins:
- 'Hostname replace'
hostname_replace:
Then add '(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': false under hostname_replace, restart SearxNG and bobs your uncle.
I feel like we need a Redditor’s Anonymous community lol.
Hi I’m Swintoodles and I’ve tried to open reddit 3 times this morning. The site is sparse, so I only browsed for 20 minutes, but I know I can get better!
Ive been tapping the empty space on my phone where the reddit app was out of habit all day
I downloaded two news apps and put them where my Reddit icon used to be and it’s not a bad move because it means I read news instead of just checking comments on news.
I have set a 0 minute timer on Boost and Infinity, so I can’t navigate to reddit. On the first day of blackout I had to open reddit to try and find the name for lemmy, squabbles and raddle so I had some alternatives as I couldn’t remember them!
I have opened and closed youtube way too many times. It’s been tough. I even went to 4chan after many year last night. A real blast from the past.
Full relapse yesterday.
I’m hoping to do better today.
We so need a RedditsAnonymous!
-edit- I said on the first day I went to reddit… but it’s only been one day!! wow. that’s embarrassing lol
It’s going to take time to reposition, but for the long haul this is the best course of action, personally I’ve uninstalled and blocked - but I do miss some of the subreddits from before.
This community seems to be in its early steps, so every contribution means progress, and sooner rather than later we’ll be back to where we want to be!
Fr, it is very hard to break. I instinctively add “reddit” to the end of every search.
After the subreddits go un-dark I will probably still use this for searching until there’s a LLM set-up to “replace” google searching (which Bing is Still Not, imo).
Agreed, I use reddit for a lot of my research be it for purchasing decisions or other random questions I think of during the day.
Unrelated but we have similar usernames :)
