How are you going to avoid using reddit?

I put the Jerboa app icon where Baconreader had been on my phone. I kept opening it by reflex. This seems to be working.

A simple low impact one I came up with is moving the Jerboa app icon to where the reddit one used to be and moving the reddit one to the end of the list, so my muscle memory reddit log on takes me here instead.

I deleted my account

Ive been here a few days the content is already a lot. Sub to communities. Start a community. Get to commenting, posting or even lurking! Be the change @[email protected]!

Once Apollo is gone for good, I’ll delete the app and that’ll be it. Reddit has too much useful info for me to block it entirely similar to Twitter. But also like Twitter, once the app is gone from my phone my usage pretty much drops to zero. I’ve already replaced Apollo with Mlem on my homepage, but I’m leaving Apollo installed until the end.

In /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 reddit.com
127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com
127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com

Replaced RIF icon with Jerboa's one. Beat that, muscle memory

Paused rif and moved Jerboa to the spot where it normally is on my launcher

I added reddit.com to my uBlock Origin blocklist!

I've set a privacy redirect from Reddit to https://libreddit.pufe.org. Now I can't log in, but if people send me links then I can see what they sent. If I want to comment on things, I'll come to Lemmy.

I logged in to Reddit this morning for perhaps the last time, to extract my list of subreddit subscriptions. While I was there I noticed I had a bunch of "Reddit Coins", didn't even know that was a thing. Missed opportunity for "Creddits" IMO.

That's... why I'm here.

The fact that I'm digging lemmy is helping. Feels new and adventurous.

i use libredirect

I uninstalled Sync for Reddit on my Android phone.

I'm going to backup the content I created over the years and fry my account in the afternoon.

I'm not really concerned about avoiding it. Most of the subreddits with content I'd want to read are or will be closed. I only am using the old site, logged out, and with an adblocker. I'm a negative value visitor.

With most subs gone dark there's basically no content anyway. I'll probably keep checking until RiF stops working. I'm never going to use the official app or website.

Uninstalled Apollo (Christian plz forgive me). Deleted my account.

Lemmy seems to cover most of the content from larger subreddits. For the smaller, or more specific communities (such as local subreddits or those for hobbies/interests) they generally have a Discord server to join.

So between Lemmy and Discord, I've eliminated the need to use Reddit at all. This isn't without it's flaws or drawbacks, but it 'scratches the Reddit itch', I guess.

Easy, I just deleted my 10+ years Reddit account.

No regrets, and am now having fun exploring the fediverse.

I deleted the app I was using to browse reddit (Infinity) and have blocked reddit.com system-wide on my computer. Admittedly this is a bit overkill for me but it's an easy solution.

Reddit tries to force all mobile users to use their trash client so it will be quite easy for me to avoid Reddit cause I will never install this thing. Viva Lemmy!

Uninstalled Apollo and put Mlem in its spot

I uninstalled RIF tonight and keep finding myself searching for it on my home screen lol Will get used to it eventually I guess. I'm opening Jerboa every time I catch myself to retrain myself.

I moved the RedditSync app out of my main icons but still caught myself opening up Sync.

However nothing could load because I created a block rule on my router just in case.

Side note: I almost never posted on my 10+ years of using Reddit because by the time I saw a thread it would have hundreds of responses. Here I find it much more natural to reply to posts.

I deleted Reddit from my phone, and the mobile site is shite, so I won't be going on there.

I occasionally look at old Reddit on my computer, but I just put Lemmy in it's place on my tab bar. Works great so far.

Kept a note at my home screen about Reddit Black Out. And logged out of Infinity. Now, everytime I unlock my phone, I see that note and open Lemmy🥂

Put a 1 minute usage limit a day, this makes the icon greyed out and reminds me

I only browsed Reddit through Apollo so it will be very easy for me to stop using Reddit. There’s no way I’m downloading their awful app.

I added an iOS shortcut automation to my iPhone. If I open Apollo, the shortcut runs and sends me to Mlem, then pops up a reminder.

I’ve exported my posts and comments. Just need to get my subscriptions list and I’m done.

I plan to overwrite my comments and posts with a text that explains why the original is removed. That way, for as long as Reddit survives, there’s a chance someone will see it and learn about how not to screw over your user base.

Not having a mobile app will automatically curtail a lot of my usage. I'll probably keep using the desktop site though until they kill off old Reddit.

I might just dump it altogether, I only lurk anyway and the communities I subscribe to are mainly for humor. I haven't checked it in several days now.

I'm sucking at it. I keep sneaking over there to check for new modmails begging to be "let in" to the subreddits etc.

Made a redirect command in Redirector on Chrome, moved Relay off screen and set the Lemmy Chrome "app" where Relay used to be.
Got a slight headstart before the Blackout and Lemmy is already really growing on me

I installed a "focus" app on my phone. I set it to prevent launches of Boost (my third party app of choice) and the Reddit app (which I installed a while back and never bothered getting rid of) for the next two days.

When I try to launch either app, the focus app will tell me that I can't. I tested it this morning just to make sure it was working. Now, even if I try to visit Reddit out of force of habit, I'll have blocked myself from going there.

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.

I just deleted/hid the Apollo app and put Mlem in the same spot in my app list. Now when my muscle memory goes to open up Reddit, I’m on lemmy instead

I just moved my Joey icon off my home page and replaced it with the icon for Jerboa.

Now I come here instead of reddit.

Annoyingly, I googled something today and clicked the first result but it was a reddit link for a privated sub... I'm going to need to update my default search to include -site:reddit.*

If you're like me and have a giant smorgasbord of resources in your saved posts, I'd recommend going ahead and migrating them to your local files. I've just been copy pasting mine into a word document, but there are probably better ways

Deleted the RIF app, pretend that Reddit turned into Lemmy, make it work.

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.

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

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.