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I should have spent the day away from reddit but I didn't, and actually this was the best experience I've had using the site in a while! there's significantly less politics, I discovered some cool new subreddits due to so many of the biggest communities being closed, threads were pleasantly concise, and I just felt like it was a much more mentally healthy scrolling experience. it's too bad that this is all going to e…
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…
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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.
> so many people are living in a world now where they act like there's nothing better to do on the train
I'm guilty of this too, but when I look up and see 3-4 people staring down at their phones I put mine away. It's a really stark image. We are blind. It doesn't matter than the screen isn't yet mounted on our faces, we are already so oblivious to the power it holds over us. I'm staring at this screen but I should be staring at the beautiful view out of my window. So I might go do that now!
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 found the same issue myself, so I deleted my Reddit account a few years ago. Nowadays, I don't check any online newspapers and get my world news from the Reuters website.
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is there a decent mobile client?
> I’ve spent a day away from tobacco, but unfortunately weed has completely replaced that addiction > Do you know a good dealer?
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Slow, expensive, complex, immature.
... So every single early computer innovation then?
Or do you simply mean early tech? Because if so there are strong reasons to wait for things to mature before using them for common use-cases.
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…
Personally, I need some time each day to relax, which involves passive content consumption. Between watching TV, reading the news, or reading Reddit, I would argue that Reddit is the "least bad" option.
You're right that I'm not getting that time back, but it's not time I would have used productively anyway, and at least I'm learning something.