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I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by shagie »

adregan wrote: post #5

Wow! I just blocked Reddit at the router and that did the trick. HN is probably next, but every now and then there is a neat article about APL or Forth that I’m happy to have seen. I suppose I could just block the comments.

If that is something that you're truly interested in doing - and are more after just the articles and links...

Current top stories: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=...

which returns something that looks like:

    [ 35629127, 35627107, 35627790, 35628345, 35630681,  ... ]
And then grab the id's and feed them into https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/35627107.json?pri...

This will return:

    {
      "by" : "danieg",
      "descendants" : 168,
      "id" : 35627107,
      "kids" : [ 35627869, ... 35627413 ],
      "score" : 373,
      "time" : 1681905950,
      "title" : "Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way",
      "type" : "story",
      "url" : "https://dgross.ca/blog/linux-home-server-auto-sleep/"
    }
Grab the title and url and send 'em to yourself as a daily digest.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by mr_00ff00 »

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…

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.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by fivre »

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…

twitter removing third-party client access sure did kill it on mobile for me though. i can't be arsed to load the mobile web UI, it lacks the features i liked in my chosen third-party client, and it was easy enough to just wait around for when im back at a desktop

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by gaoshan »

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.

I agree that Reddit is doing a good job of harming its usability (and the overall experience with mods that wield the ban hammer for the slightest disagreements, for example) I do not understand this sentiment for old reddit. I've been on the site for over 15 years and while I do pine for the old days (when comments and content were of much higher quality) the old UI holds no such sway over me.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by qtzfz »

mr_00ff00 wrote: post #12
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…

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.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by clawoo »

LeechBlock is surpisingly effective for me.

I block all time sinks during working hours with an exception of 2 minutes every 4 hours to quickly check whether the world is ending. My productivity has skyrocketed.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by haunter »

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…

>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

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by skilled »

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 for themselves. And comments on Reddit are beyond bland - they might as well adopt a slogan of "The Parrot Club" at this point.

My point being, Reddit is likely the easiest platform to give up because it never provided any value/intrigue in the first place.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

> I came across the Pavlok in 2018. The Pavlok is a wrist-watch that delivers a shock. The device had the right cyberpunk and biohacking vibes to catch my attention. It was primarily marketed for smoking cessation: every time you felt the impulse to smoke, you’d press the device and it would deliver a shock.

Reminds me of the James Woods segment of this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Eye_(1985_film)#.22Qui...

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