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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?

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[–] fratermus@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

Not avoiding yet, but I just cut my subscribed subreddits by about half. Should reduce my time there.

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Made a redirect command in Redirector on Chrome, moved Relay off screen and set the Lemmy Chrome "app" where Relay used to be.
Got a slight headstart before the Blackout and Lemmy is already really growing on me

[–] Jaximus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit has a ton of useful knowledge on it, why would I avoid it? It is not just a platform to doomscroll on... As a social media platform it's as good as dead for me, but it is still a hyper forum with many worthwhile communities.

[–] Technoguyfication@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just deleted/hid the Apollo app and put Mlem in the same spot in my app list. Now when my muscle memory goes to open up Reddit, I’m on lemmy instead

[–] Ozma_of_Oz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So is mlem just for apple? I tried searching for it and only found jerboa which I do like just fine.

[–] maccam912@lemmy.koski.co 1 points 1 year ago

I've got a link to lemmy next to my reddit sync app, so I will see this every time I would have looked at reddit.

[–] TechyDad@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I installed a "focus" app on my phone. I set it to prevent launches of Boost (my third party app of choice) and the Reddit app (which I installed a while back and never bothered getting rid of) for the next two days.

When I try to launch either app, the focus app will tell me that I can't. I tested it this morning just to make sure it was working. Now, even if I try to visit Reddit out of force of habit, I'll have blocked myself from going there.

[–] Newwit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I unsubscribed to every subreddit that didn’t acknowledged they’d take part of the blackout yesterday. I’ve opened the app once today and was greeted with a “Reddit is killing 3rd party apps (and itself)” post and got reminded to exit the app right away.

[–] psilves1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just delete it from your phone

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