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.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    9·
    1 month ago

    At this point, your presence and activity on reddit cannot make reddit better. Reddit’s tipping point has been reached. It is beyond saving.

    Similarly, your presence and activity on fediverse can make fediverse better. While this might change, at present it is true. In any case, at least you will have a more informed opinion on fediverse later on if you expand your experience and interaction with it now.

  • thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    6·
    1 month ago

    Im not sure. once I had an alternative I never went back. I mean don’t go to reddit unless you have nothing to hang here for and if you do you have wwwwwwaaaaaaaayyy to much time on your hands.

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    1 month ago

    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

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 month ago

      That will get you banned around here too though if you aren’t careful.

      Two nights of drinking and rage commenting around election day has eliminated my need to browse politicalmemes though… So maybe still fine?

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
    6·
    1 month ago

    I did it by doing a download of all my posts, and then deleted my account and everything I ever wrote there. I understand the argument that that this is “bad for the internet,” but I’m not interested in helping Reddit profit off my labor when I’m not using their service. Also, it’s a no-takeh backs approach; once I did it, I couldn’t go back, short of creating a new account, which is easy for me to resist.

  • IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 month ago

    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 :)

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 month ago

      Yeah… That ain’t me.

      I’m more of a “you’re the one that sucks, why should I leave?” kind of guy. Which basically means you tell people what you think until they ban you and then it’s no problem anymore.