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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 erfgh »

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…

If you can't remember what you read yesterday on the newspaper the problem might not lie with the newspaper.

Re: My Day Away from Reddit

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Post by alfresco »

alphakilo wrote: post #32
voltagex_ wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yuck, blockchain.

do you have any actual thoughts against web3 or is it just your bête noire?

Bitcoin is a true innovation

Web3 is a scam. There's nothing there. It's all completely centralized, rife with insider premines and intellectually dishonest snake oil gimmicks. Silicon valley start ups issuing shares on a blockchain to escape from silicon valley regulations.

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Post by noduerme »

bwoodward wrote: post #23

I mod a few subs (largest is just over half a million.) While they're relatively easy to mod, I really enjoyed not having to check a queue, not having to deal with a lot of whiners in modmail, and definitely not having to deal with trolls and spammers. Pretty nice. I blew that time today on browsing through a Lemmy node, but for the next two days I'm going to focus that time elsewhere... maybe I'll make fresh pasta.

So basically not even a temporary hobby?

Re: My Day Away from Reddit

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Post by jedberg »

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…

Did you apply the same question to your TV viewing? What about movies? Video games? Reddit is entertainment. Do you enjoy reading it? Then it's enriched you about as much as those other activities.

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Post by t-sauer »

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…

I don‘t remember most of the things I‘ve read on reddit but I definitely remember the games, books, music and shows I discovered through reddit. Or that it helped me to keep up to date when covid appeared. Or how I kept up with the developments in the Ukraine last year. While lots of reddit browsing is time wasting, it also enabled a lot of discovery for me that I didn‘t get elsewhere so far.

Re: My Day Away from Reddit

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Post by noduerme »

asim wrote: post #38
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…

>> There is no time for reddit when you're living your real life

Except if you're drunk and lonely, and all the bars are closed. Then it's a real problem.

The real nasty thing is, so many people are living in a world now where they act like there's nothing better to do on the train, when there are people all around us we should be paying attention to and interacting with.

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Post by PMunch »

deergomoo wrote: post #18
Havoc wrote: post #3

It did highlight to me how often I circle back to Reddit almost subconsciously when idling surfing the internet. Will need to do something about that…

I uninstalled Apollo yesterday and I’m kind of embarrassed at how many times since I’ve tried to open it without even thinking about it. It’s only when the app isn’t there that your brain snaps out of it and you wonder what the hell you’re doing.

I put an app timer in my Digital Wellbeing settings for RiF, with 0 minutes allowed per day. I'm surprised how many times I had to see that "You've exceeded your minutes for today" message just from pure habitual clicking.

Re: My Day Away from Reddit

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Post by KnobbleMcKnees »

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…

If you're visiting r/funny and r/memes 99% of the time sure.

But it also has great hobbyist communities. r/functionalprint and r/fixmyprint are amazing for 3d printer enthusiasts, for example.

It's a bit like criticizing the library for stocking copies of MAD magazines.

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