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Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by irrational » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 6:50 PM UTC

animesh wrote: post #30

bmarquez wrote: post #6

> To quit Reddit, I wanted the Pavlok to deliver a painful shock every time I visited Reddit That's a bit...extreme. Fortunately Reddit is doing a great job diminishing its own usability. When Reddit enables their paid API and locks out 3rd party clients in the process, there will be greater friction to browse. When they eventually kill old.reddit.com that'll be the nail in the coffin.

They are on a path slowly killing third party reddit apps. Recent announcement on this. (An Update Regarding Reddit’s API https://redd.it/12qwagm ) Copied from a third party app (sync) dev's comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/12qwwjh/an_upda... It looks like they'll be no more free access so every third party app will have to charge a subscription that goes to Reddit (monthly and with no costing pr…

Clearly Reddit is going the way of many previous platforms. What will be the next platform I wonder?

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by ryanwhitney » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 6:50 PM UTC

qtzfz wrote: post #16

mr_00ff00 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crazy thing I find is how even with apps off, how quickly you will subconsciously type in “Reddit” or something into google. I haven’t used social media in years, but I remember when I quit it how I would sometimes be on my laptop doing something and almost out of habit hit “Ctrl + T” for a new tab and type the first few letters of Reddit or instagram.

Used to happen to me with some sites, what I did was 1) remove all the history of that domain so typing re would google "re" instead of autocompleting to reddit.com and 2) adding reddit.com to my ad blocker so I couldn't visit it at all. Regarding apps, just delete them.

If you keep your phone's browser on private mode, this becomes a lot easier! (Long as you don't have any old bookmarks for that site.)

Combined with DuckDuckGo's !bang notation—since you no longer have autocomplete for visited sites—you can still get to useful places like wikipedia quickly.

Unfortunate side-effect is that by staying logged out everywhere, with no cookies, means you'll see every single "log in with gmail!", "use the app for a better experience" dark pattern popup, unless your adblocker covers annoyances.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by muh_gradle » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 6:51 PM UTC

bmarquez wrote: post #6

> To quit Reddit, I wanted the Pavlok to deliver a painful shock every time I visited Reddit That's a bit...extreme. Fortunately Reddit is doing a great job diminishing its own usability. When Reddit enables their paid API and locks out 3rd party clients in the process, there will be greater friction to browse. When they eventually kill old.reddit.com that'll be the nail in the coffin.

Agree. I think reddit will eventually die like Digg in a few years. I've been on reddit for 15 years now. It's been getting steadily worse.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by slg » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 6:52 PM UTC

bmarquez wrote: post #6

> To quit Reddit, I wanted the Pavlok to deliver a painful shock every time I visited Reddit That's a bit...extreme. Fortunately Reddit is doing a great job diminishing its own usability. When Reddit enables their paid API and locks out 3rd party clients in the process, there will be greater friction to browse. When they eventually kill old.reddit.com that'll be the nail in the coffin.

It will be a little poetic if Reddit ends up new Digging itself considering new Digg was one of the first big influxes of users to Reddit.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by glonq » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 6:53 PM UTC

Similar to how building a new Wal-mart kills off many small local businesses (pharmacies, markets, shoes stores...) in the area, I lament how reddit has nearly monopolized the topic-based conversation and discovery platform space.

I'm old, so my route there is roughly: Dial-up BBS's -> usenet -> various web forums -> slashdot -> fark -> digg -> reddit. So I've experience the best and the worst of it all, and I'm not sure that reddit represents the best. I do not believe that they wield their [immense] power in a responsible or trustworthy manner.

I'm very curious to see what comes after reddit.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by bityard » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 6:55 PM UTC

skilled wrote: post #19

Meh, Reddit is a boring platform outside of your personal interests. I myself follow only one subreddit and check maybe other 4-5 for news/updates, but none of these are in the top 1000, maybe not even top 10,000 subreddits. I find Reddit culture to be bland and uninspiring. Even technical/niche subreddits get absolutely run over by "noobs" and people who have too many questions but too little patience to do research…

Small subreddits can be very nice. A community forms, norms as established, everyone gets along. But these are very rare and not often long-lived. I browse Reddit out of boredom mostly anymore, all of the subs I used to enjoy and participate in are filled with one or more of the following: meme shitposts, requests for musical instrument appraisals from "pickers" (which can't be done via pictures on the internet anyway), the same questions being asked over and over again every single day which have answers in the sidebar or FAQ, etc.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by glonq » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 6:56 PM UTC

simse wrote: post #29

bmarquez wrote: post #6

> To quit Reddit, I wanted the Pavlok to deliver a painful shock every time I visited Reddit That's a bit...extreme. Fortunately Reddit is doing a great job diminishing its own usability. When Reddit enables their paid API and locks out 3rd party clients in the process, there will be greater friction to browse. When they eventually kill old.reddit.com that'll be the nail in the coffin.

Reddit has one of the worst frontends I have ever seen. Not even from a "SPAs are evil"-standpoint. It's just awful. That has deconditioned me very effectively.

The RES plugin helps with some stuff, but yeah just accessing simple things like "my recent posts, comments, and messages" seems unnecessarily clumsy.

Also, stop asking me to buy coins reddit. I ain't doing that.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by Pengtuzi » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 6:56 PM UTC

pb7 wrote: post #24

haunter wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The better, smoother UX and faster response time reduces any and all friction It's funny cause old reddit simply in the mobile browser itself is 100% better than any mobile app

I disagree. Apollo on iOS is the most potent drug I've ever consumed. It's a wonderful app (kudos to Christian, it's rare for a one-man show to take the throne in the days of companies giving themselves preferential treatment) but I can't have it installed because I'll go back to binging Reddit.

I agree. I actually deleted Apollo just an hour ago for this reason, quite a coincidence. I love it because it’s such a well made app which is too rare these days, and I hate it for the same reason.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by reitanqild » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 6:56 PM UTC

AlbertCory wrote: post #44

pb7 wrote: post #4

If you're struggling with social media addiction, I would recommend deleting the native apps off your phone. The better, smoother UX and faster response time reduces any and all friction. I find that when I have to use the mobile sites, I can't stand them so I naturally want to leave. Reddit's mobile site is a dumpster fire so it's perfect for wanting to keep your sessions short. Instagram's is similar. Sadly, Twitte…

+1 to getting rid of native apps. I use Brave for any social media apps on the phone, or just don't use them except at home. As a bonus, you're much less likely to be walking the streets like a zombie staring at your phone.

Also after deleting Reddit the battery on my new iPhone lasts the whole day even while I still watch unhealthy amounts of Russian tanks burning on Telegram and sometimes visit reddit web interface too.

There, I said and admitted it: it is unhealthy. Now off to write down and delete more Telegram channels. (I already quit Twitter cold turkey back in February, Telegram is a bit more complicated since all my friends use it and only it so I need to wean myself off just the addictive parts of it.)

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by JanneVee » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 6:58 PM UTC

I quit reddit in a day without the threat of electric shocks. I just deleted my 15+ year old account. I occasionally go manually in and read some comments... not missing it at all. It turned out it was just a bad habit.