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@mander.xyzEnglish
    39·
    2 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.

    • agentshags@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Baconreader was Reddit for me. I’m keeping it where it was… until it stops working. But even though I’ve accidently opened it like four times today, I just smack my forehead and go back to trying to figure out Lemmy and Mastodon

  • psychothumbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    2 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.

  • shinratdr@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    2 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@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 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…

    • caffeinepleaseEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Same. Keeping it installed until curtains, and will place Mlem in its place afterwards. I’ll use Reddit on desktop but only after I nuke my account.

  • Xune531English
    10·
    2 years ago

    Uninstalled Apollo (Christian plz forgive me). Deleted my account.

  • rollingFlint@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    Easy, I just deleted my 10+ years Reddit account.

    No regrets, and am now having fun exploring the fediverse.

  • SorghumEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    Paused rif and moved Jerboa to the spot where it normally is on my launcher

    • Rick@thesimplecorner.orgEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

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

      • Raiden11X@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        2 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.

  • heartlessevil@lemmy.oneEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    I’m not really concerned about avoiding it. Most of the subreddits with content I’d want to read are or will be closed. I only am using the old site, logged out, and with an adblocker. I’m a negative value visitor.

  • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    10·
    2 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.

    • AllYourSmurfEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Thanks for the reminder. I need to get my subscription list. I like the redirect idea too.