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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I as lucky enough to use Apollo. As soon as it stopped working, Reddit became useless to me.

(Or not useful enough to use their horrendous website, old.reddit website or official app)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yupp, as soon as i could no longer use RiF, I was done. Trying to mod a small community using the official app was basically impossible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep. The end of RIF and I went cold Turkey. I had already prepared by deleting/overwriting all of my content so leaving was easy. My three accounts combined had truckloads of karma, glad I am not chasing after that bullshit anymore.

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

i used a extension to delete all my comments and posts.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Boost just stopped working for me yesterday

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Same but with Infinity. Eternity works the same but uses Lemmy, so that's what I picked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Now I just need the timer for my Lemmy app

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

same boat. it was my favorite app ever and to this day i can’t will myself to delete it. still grieving 💔

voyager is pretty good though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I get bad service at my job and the reddit app won't even load most of the time. I use Voyager with Lemmy and it loads just fine. I think it's all the ads and trackers that reddit tries to load before the actual content.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I found it really easy to quit Reddit. The trick is to engage in conversation with a maga, say exactly what you think, and let the permaban system do the rest! 😉

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

it took them to permaban multiple accts to come here, lol. and i also fled to another forum(one specifically how to evade the bans)_

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's an addiction. Don't tell to go cold turkey. Have an alternative in place and then gradually reduce your timer for Reddit. Look at how much you use each day on average then set the timer for that. So first your getting rid of your high usage days. After a couple of days reduce it by 5 mins. Keep repeating this. Also, trim down the subs you're subscribed to so there's less new content showing up.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

easiest thing for me was to just... uninstall the app and use it in a browser.

the experience is so terrible, i don't spend much time on it anymore. seriously, go to reddit.com and see what it looks like with no account and no extensions.

instagram is even worse, once in a while i try to open a funny post someone sends me in the browser, and ... it usually works for the first post (after clicking away a bunch of popups) but if i open a second one i get completely blocked. thanks meta 👌

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

What's your alternative? Been meaning to use Lemmy less, but since I started using social media in place of idling/skin picking/bad thoughts when I don't have the energy to do anything else, that's what I return to when I put my phone down. (I have adhd)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh Lemmy is the alternative, this was just for getting off Reddit lol

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

I quit. It was simple. The fediverse is a great replacement.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Weird, I just deleted my account, uninstalled the app, and moved to Lemmy with no desire to go back.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When they killed off the app I was using, I refused to install their BS.

Web only, especially on my phone was enough to make me stop.

Now I only end up there through search results and that's only when there's no other option.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

One of the dumbest things they did was remove the mobile sized webpage. I only need to check one subreddit sometimes and I'm never going to install the app.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Here's a fun trick to stop using Reddit - simply install and use a VPN.

Just like that, Reddit blocks itself for you!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I was on reddit for well over a decade, and performed a lot of free labour, not just as a mod but putting real thought into posts and comments.

Anyway, I requested all my data so I could have an archive of it, then ran my comments through PowerDeleteSuite a couple of times for good measure, and honestly was shocking how quickly I stopped having feelings for my old account.

I've also had no use for the "archive" of posts and comments over the last 10+ years. It just made pulling the plug easier.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

You put a ton of thought into a comment nobody notices and then "Exactly!" gets 2000 upvotes.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty simple: start asking controversial questions until you get permabanned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“Is it really so bad that I hang my toilet paper the other way around?”

Removed. Rule 1. Violence will not be tolerated.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Just delete the app, trust me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's easy. Just be yourself and say whatever the fuck you want instead of trying to adhere to their stupid ass rules.

You'll get a free ticket out of there in no time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Here to confirm this method even with being a (small time) mod and having a 15yo account. Hello.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Delete all your comments and posts so Reddit can't profit off them, then delete your account.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I finally did this. Took a while because I had to delete each individual comment and post, but it was worth it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Delete the app 🤷

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have a timer app for blocking Instagram and it works pretty well—I use ScreenZen

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That app actually looks really cool, i think I'll try it.

The question remains though, is there something to prevent you from disabling the timer when you've hit your daily limit?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

i never got the hang of using fb, or instagram. only to check up a specfic person, i lose interest the moment it ask you to login.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Eh, it's been less annoying with Tumblr and here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

We'll just look at one last thread!

Now we'll look at one VERY last thread!

Look at all these threads!!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Read this before you use a bulk utility to delete your reddit comment history.

Comments deleted from reddit aren't actually erased or removed, they are merely marked as deleted so they don't appear anymore. The content still exists and can be used by reddit for AI training, marketing or opinion research, or whatever. If you want to truly eliminate all the content you have contributed so they can't use it anymore, read the docs about a utility and make sure it first Edits each comment and overwrites it with meaningless words before deleting it. Reddit only keeps the most recent version of a comment, so this technique leaves a worthless bunch of garbage in place for AI algorithms to enjoy.

Several years ago I used a Chrome extension. whose name I don't remember but I think it had "nuke" in the title. There are various browser extensions out there, just be sure to pick one that says it overwrites comments before deleting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I didn't know any of this before I deleted my accounts unfortunately, but I think there's a small win in leaving all of that communist propaganda in their AI training data at least

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I will uninstall Reddit so i don’t use it anymore.

We can use the website to use it anyways!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have such mixed feelings on it which I hate. I want to cut it fully but it genuinely is a useful trove of information for DIY and things that interest me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Those can be built here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Lmao frog and toad, clearly we have achieved supremacy already

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