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I just catched myself looking at reddit again.

To remind myself not to use reddit in the next few days (or never again if I succeed) I added it to my uBlock filter list. Additionally I deleted all reddit apps from my phone.

What's your strategy on how to avoid reddit?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uninstalled the app, blackholed the domain in my Pi-hole servers, and removed the domain from my web search results on my SearxNG server. I use Wireguard from my phone when out and about, so I'm always usnig Pi-hole and SearxNG.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

and removed the domain from my web search results on my SearxNG server

How did you do this? Didn't realize that was possible.> pp, blackholed the domain in my Pi-hole servers, and removed the domain from my web search results on my SearxNG serve

Found it: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/1258#issuecomment-1146883879

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit has a ton of useful knowledge on it, why would I avoid it? It is not just a platform to doomscroll on... As a social media platform it's as good as dead for me, but it is still a hyper forum with many worthwhile communities.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I unsubscribed to every subreddit that didn’t acknowledged they’d take part of the blackout yesterday. I’ve opened the app once today and was greeted with a “Reddit is killing 3rd party apps (and itself)” post and got reminded to exit the app right away.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just delete it from your phone

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Not avoiding yet, but I just cut my subscribed subreddits by about half. Should reduce my time there.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keep using it if you want to, don't treat it like a tiktok challenge.

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