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Reddit habit is hard to break. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had to remove my reddit bookmark to break the habit today. Its been.. rough.. I keep opening my email instead.

Apparently I visited reddit 18000 times this browser install.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

13993 times for me... I never even had a bookmark for Reddit.

What's worse is that I tend to just keep the tabs open I frequent indefinitely and this current browser instance of Firefox is at the most 5 months old since it's a new laptop, and I primarily used RIF on my phone... So 13993 is a stupidly low number compared to how much time I actually spent on Reddit.

Looking at those numbers it hard to say that it wasn't a terrible addiction.