Technology

I'm keeping reddark open on another monitor as a reminder to stay away

It could help to add reddit.com to your hosts file or your ublock origin filter list.

Unfortunately now we’re going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like “TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023” to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.

So... exactly what other users submitting content had to do previously. Unless you just lurk and don't submit anything.

Reddit still has tons of useful content and I'm expecting to be clicking on it or some sort of archive in the future. I won't be active of the platform in any way but there's still value in the content they're now using as leverage.

I'm the same. I'm used to adding "site:reddit.com" to my searches to ensure that I get actual answers as opposed to those crappy blogs with 5 screens of nonsense and tons of blank space (supposed to be filled with ads!). Not to mention all the obscure problems that those blog owners haven't monetised.

this is already so much like reddit of old, im cool with it. if it comes up in a search thats fine, might port the data though!

I keep opening Relay today and immediately quitting. Anyone use an app for this? Maybe just need to replace the app location with a new app.

That's why I went for the nuclear option and deleted 13 years of accounts and comments, a lot of those comments being fixes for various Linux issues, I hate deleting something that could help someone, but I figure a lot of them are old enough to not really be needed anymore.

I put reddit on my dns blocking list for now. Prevents accidental access. Replaced the buttons on my browser and phone with lemmy, since it's the thing i probably zombie-touch by habit.

ChatGPT can be a handy way to get certain information as well.

Hahah, that exact thing happened to me, and I had to go through such tech article as well. Hopefully all the useful information from there gets preserved.

I feel this, I was buying something this morning and I googled something about it and instinctively clicked on the reddit link that popped up. The subreddit was private because of the blackout. Gotta alter my research methodology!

I found it surprisingly easy. I don't miss it at all and just deleted the apps off my phone that I used to instinctively open every 2 minutes.

Although there are some communities that haven't flourished to the same levels here, I've found new ones and know the future is bright with opportunity.

Nothing last forever in life, so I miss the golden age of Reddit, but I also miss my 20s. It doesn't mean I'm not enjoying my 30s though.

Yeah, I keep starting to type "reddit.com" into my browser address bar. Luckily "feddit.de" isn't too far off.

I've replaced Reddit Sync with Jerboa as a shortcut on my phone's homescreen. This helps quite a bit as I noticed I opened Reddit out of habit (which isn't great either)

Seriously! I ended up blocking reddit and its subdomains with my pihole so that I'd stop clicking on things from google searches.

Yeah, it really sucks. Hopefully enough people move to something else that there's a viable alternative.

I'm committed to doing my part this month on Lemmy, but I'll need others to do the same or I'll probably end up going back to Reddit eventually.

So far I've seen good content here, so keep it up!

It's pretty painful, but I have to admit: I'm a lot more productive today at work

i removed my reddit bookmarks and added lemmy instead. now i instinctually come here instead.

I simply replaced the Reddit Sync shortcut with Jerboa on my phone, works wonders for me :) just need to find a few good replacement communities