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.
My app quit working, and I never downloaded the official one. Problem solved!
This is the way. I miss my baconreader app, but haven’t looked back.
RIP RIF
Said if I’m getting a new app anyway, might as well vent onto the fediverse.
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.
I just left once my 3rd party app stopped working and never went back because Lemmy sufficiently fills the void.
Same here, miss my bacon reader
Yup, can’t imagine using reddits almost sadistic UX.
It’s so poorly designed it feels like a slap to the face to even see a screenshot.
That is literally the only thing I miss about reddit, BUT Voyager is pretty top notch these days.
I just wish the app wouldn’t reset randomly going through the advanced search.
Isn’t that the truth. Accidentally go back to the communities tab? Sorry, you will have to browse from zero.
I spent like 20 minutes scrolling down to reach the older comments on an interested topic only for the app to reset thus losing all my progress QQ
I prefer meeting you in this sub :)
Not patronizing Reddit and instead spend quality time trying to make Lemmy better.
A cold turkey move to the Fediverse.
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.
Delete your account. Make it feel final.
Can i cross reply from lemmy.world to lemmy.ca?
And yes i can
I just don’t use Reddit
The app I was using got broken so I left
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.
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.
The comments on Reddit are so bad these days. I see so many spelling mistakes and nonsensical ones.
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
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?
i put in a plugin/browser block so i dont accidentally go there. if i ever need to, i have to disable it or open a private window. the extra steps worked at preventing relapse.
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 :)
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.
