this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I don't think finding stuff on reddit is that big of an issue. Don't contribute to it's behemoth of content and your habbits will naturally readjust ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

i have successfully made it a whole 12 hours without opening reddit. i've chewed a lot of gum and also been to the gym. i think i can do it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Search results are so full of trash I had the habbit of adding reddit to the search

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I setup TimeLimit to block the reddit apps for some time. I hope it can help you with the redde-addiction.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm considering filtering reddit out using Portmaster since I use Portmaster anyway.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Similar - I added it to my PiHole blacklist. It can vanish along with Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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' # see hostname_replace configuration below

hostname_replace:

Then add '(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': false under hostname_replace, restart SearxNG and bobs your uncle.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I unfortunately had to use reddit to resolve an issue with angular ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I simply replaced the Reddit Sync shortcut with Jerboa on my phone, works wonders for me :) just need to find a few good replacement communities

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