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My Day Away from Reddit

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Re: My Day Away from Reddit

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Post by bborud »

I quit visiting Reddit daily 6-7 years ago. The reason is very simple: I asked myself what value Reddit provides in my life. What will I remember from yesterday's browsing? Or last week. Or last month. Am I really going to miss out on anything? I made the same exercise with several online newspapers. If I can't remember what I read yesterday, whatever I read was probably a waste of time. I stopped reading at least 3 low quality newspapers in roughly the same period.

Reddit isn't worth hours every week. You are not getting that time back. It isn't quality time spent on things that enrich you. You have to care for yourself and be more picky about what you spend your time and attention on.

Quitting stuff is good for you.

Re: My Day Away from Reddit

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Post by noduerme »

I'm not a redditor, not even a lurker, but I'm going to repost my sub here from a few days ago, how I was banned from WSB in a matter of one post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36262192

And follow this up to say that in the days after that, I was subjected to a vast array of hate and abuse, including things like "groomers should die", etc. when I wasn't even beginning to an express a political opinion about what Target sells or who should sell what bathing suit, or anything like that.

I was super happy to see the (stupid, pointless, pathetically idiotic) "strike" go into effect the next day, because my fondest wish would be for that entire ecosystem to fall over and choke on its own vomit.

Re: My Day Away from Reddit

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Post by asim »

bborud wrote: post #31

I quit visiting Reddit daily 6-7 years ago. The reason is very simple: I asked myself what value Reddit provides in my life. What will I remember from yesterday's browsing? Or last week. Or last month. Am I really going to miss out on anything? I made the same exercise with several online newspapers. If I can't remember what I read yesterday, whatever I read was probably a waste of time. I stopped reading at least 3…

This is it. Clean up your life. What you do in your 20s is not the same as 30s or 40s, etc. That might speak to the people you interact with as well. I was "searching" for something on reddit and other places like it. Spending time with friends, getting married, having kids, it changes all of that. Real people interaction pulls you away from the place where so much idle time is spent. There is no time for reddit when you're living your real life. But we all go through the phases. Its just not clear reddit is the place to have healthy discussions.

Re: My Day Away from Reddit

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Post by Fnoord »

rvz wrote: post #20

If you are going to 'leave' the platform, do not take just one day. Delete your entire account forever. Staying on the platform just prolongs the addiction and replacing it with another social network is not the solution.

Done, thank you. Same for Twitter.
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