I put reddit on my dns blocking list for now. Prevents accidental access. Replaced the buttons on my browser and phone with lemmy, since it's the thing i probably zombie-touch by habit.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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I did the exact same thing. I forgot what I was looking for (something stupid, like thoughts on a particular robovac or something?) and the sub was dark, thank goodness. I have found it easy to avoid going on reddit on my phone, as I just deleted Apollo, but when I'm searching for information, I do tend to gravitate towards reddit links still.
Hopefully as time goes on, that information will be on sites like Lemmy instead. Or maybe blogs will come back full swing and will be the go to from now on, haha.
What's weird is that I never used Reddit as much as I use Lemmy over last few days 😅
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There is a lot of helpful information there. I hope that some of that can stay as search indexing on archive sites is difficult.
All that said, I just deleted my accounts I had with them. If I use it, it will be without being logged in and only the odd search for something I need.
And hopefully, improvements to platforms like Lemmy grow to where I can search for what I need there or find the best community to ask a question in a few seconds rather than 5-10 minutes. No hate, just where the platform is at right now with the influx.
I'm not sure why you think you need to avoid Reddit at cost to you finding the information you're after.
If the information you want is on Reddit, why wouldn't you want to read it?