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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 d23 »

elesiuta wrote: post #47
d23 wrote: post #27

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I was using it for a while, but unfortunately my muscle memory has gotten too good at disabling it. Maybe I should do smaller increments like you do though. I was previously setting a limited amount of time per 24 hours, but maybe a few minutes every 4 hours would be better.

I found the best solution for myself was the delaying page feature, set to 15 seconds. This added enough friction to prevent mindless checking, but still allowed for purposeful checking without training muscle memory to disable it.

Oh interesting, I will give that a shot too.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by pessimizer »

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.

Twitter is equally awful. I wish I understood the commercial reasons for having such bad UIs, especially when the UI has been better in the past. Is it just bad statistics, or are these terrible UIs actually increasing revenue/profit?

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by [deleted] »

glonq wrote: post #62
mr_00ff00 wrote: post #12

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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.

> Crazy thing I find is how even with apps off, how quickly you will subconsciously type in “Reddit” or something into google. Oh I'm relieved to hear that I'm not the only one. Is there a browser plugin that only lets you visit a site once every N hours? I'd prefer this to electroshock punishment.

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Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by uni_rule »

irrational wrote: post #51
animesh wrote: post #30

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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?

I hope there is at least some centrality to the next "cool place". All the new projects are decentralized (as in the communities are isolated from each other, not in infrastructure) to the point of being like a giant ant farm, it makes it impossible to find things and also makes whatever genuine information they give out really tenuous because you never know how long the particular instance of a platform or chat server or whatever you are looking at will remain up.

Really I just hope all the shit you begrudgingly need to add "site:reddit.com" to in order to get actual search results for is still usable. Watching the site genuinely burn would make me actively worse at troubleshooting tech.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by Euphorbium »

irrational wrote: post #51
animesh wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Reddit is just apollo backend. They could easily build the backend themselves.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by RF_Savage »

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 did recently break i.reddit.com. It was very nice and fast on mobile.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by washadjeffmad »

A few months back, I had my account of ten years banned for something I never bothered looking into. I've used the site probably a dozen times since then, using site:reddit.com.

Reddit was as close as I got to social media, and it sucked. The longer I spend apart from it, the more alien and irrational the ideas seem. People repeating themselves over and over in every thread, all it takes is one prompt for the conversations to derail - it's like a poorly tuned 7B LLM.

I knew it was "awful", but I guess I'd developed an immunity to it. They're doing future models a great service by limiting their API.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by BizarroLand »

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…

Turning off infinite scroll dramatically reduced my reddit usage (on RIF). Infinite scroll is a nice feature for keeping you locked in for the next dopamine hit but if you want to just learn a few things and keep abreast of news and then get on with your life you're better off without it.
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