Lemmy is active enough as is and the apps are great but I still have that unfortunate ingrained habit where I keep coming back to abusive Reddit.
I should instead focus my attention to contributing to the conversation here, sharing articles and creating original content.
My app quit working, and I never downloaded the official one. Problem solved!
This is the way. I miss my baconreader app, but haven’t looked back.
RIP RIF
Said if I’m getting a new app anyway, might as well vent onto the fediverse.
I went cold turkey when the whole API pricing change thing went down.
If you haven’t been successful in quitting (cold turkey or otherwise) Reddit, I’d say do some introspection on the topic of what keeps you coming back to Reddit. What specifically do you find yourself thinking about when you’re wanting to open Reddit?
Once you have an answer to that question, maybe think about just how beneficial it is to you. If it’s beneficial, maybe try to make something similar a thing on Lemmy. If it’s less beneficial and more just addictive gamification that you don’t actually value, practice some mindfulness around it. When you feel yourself desiring to go consume some Reddit, just observe that desire nonjudgementally until it goes away.
I just left once my 3rd party app stopped working and never went back because Lemmy sufficiently fills the void.
Same here, miss my bacon reader
Yup, can’t imagine using reddits almost sadistic UX.
It’s so poorly designed it feels like a slap to the face to even see a screenshot.
yeah! it’s so bad that there’s no way they didn’t intentionally make it horrible.
Not patronizing Reddit and instead spend quality time trying to make Lemmy better.
A cold turkey move to the Fediverse.
At this point, your presence and activity on reddit cannot make reddit better. Reddit’s tipping point has been reached. It is beyond saving.
Similarly, your presence and activity on fediverse can make fediverse better. While this might change, at present it is true. In any case, at least you will have a more informed opinion on fediverse later on if you expand your experience and interaction with it now.
Don’t comment, don’t upvote or downvote. Use it read only from now. Watch the AI comments shitify the whole site until it’s so bad you’ll want to leave it anyway.
The comments on Reddit are so bad these days. I see so many spelling mistakes and nonsensical ones.
Can i cross reply from lemmy.world to lemmy.ca?
And yes i can
Delete your account. Make it feel final.
I just don’t use Reddit
I did it by doing a download of all my posts, and then deleted my account and everything I ever wrote there. I understand the argument that that this is “bad for the internet,” but I’m not interested in helping Reddit profit off my labor when I’m not using their service. Also, it’s a no-takeh backs approach; once I did it, I couldn’t go back, short of creating a new account, which is easy for me to resist.
Im not sure. once I had an alternative I never went back. I mean don’t go to reddit unless you have nothing to hang here for and if you do you have wwwwwwaaaaaaaayyy to much time on your hands.
The app I was using got broken so I left
Get permabanned. My offense: virulent anti-nazism (the offending comment had 64 up votes when it was deleted). Not very compelling once they ban you. I commented that we should take President Eisenhower’s approach to dealing with Nazis on a post that had a picture of Nazis marching in Wisconsin.
In my experience, you can simply talk about how you can’t wait for conservatives to die from listeria after the new head of HHS recommends drinking listeria, and you’ll get banned for glorifying violence
That’s made it a lot easier to avoid wasting time on there
