Muscle memory is also hard to break. I had to remove Apollo from my homescreen :D
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I made a shortcut automation in iOS to close Apollo as soon as it's opened. Works & has caught me in my habit a few times already. lmao
Same lol. Replaced the icon with the Lemmy app for Android and here I am 👍🏻
I have my 3rd party apps installed still but have put them behind an app locker so there's an additional step if I knee-jerk! Also disabled notifications so they won't tempt me in.
I know the feeling. I had to put it in a folder “Do not use”. It’s like the first rhing I check in the morning. This lemmy thing has potential. I miss Apollo so much though. Jesus if Christian ported Apollo to use a lemmy backend I’m not sure I’d even notice it wasn’t Reddit. 😀
I put Discord in its place, my muscle memory has been opening it all morning.
Did the same! Now I don’t have to think twice before clicking it.
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The fact is that there is some useful info that only is on Reddit. No shame in looking that stuff up since that’s where it is.
The main thing is to stop using Reddit as your go-to time waster/doom scrolling app
If people stop providing useful information on reddit, it's usefulness will disappear over time.
There are also lots of people using Shreddit to remove their entire log of comments.
I'm debating whether or not to do that with my account... I have several comments with solutions to specific tech issues, documentation on specific things. At the same time, I feel less and less comfortable with Reddit benefiting from information users provided for free.
Honestly? ChatGPT (4) is basically a stackoverflow 2.0. It’s my goto when I want help with specific problems. There are alternative options, is what I mean.
I deleted all my comments on Reddit. I do not want them to benefit from my knowledge even if it might inconvenience someone else
The big problem with chatGTP is that you never can be sure that it's right, you need to check it. On reddit and sites like it, you can see the amount of upvotes, which shows you if they are right or not.
I have seen a lot of highly upvoted comments on reddit which were very, very wrong.
I still use reddit for help on things. But for topics that I'm less knowledgeable about (so I can't gauge the accuracy myself), I try to just take everything with a grain of salt.
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Grab those comments and repost them in a place where you are more comfortable. You can keep that knowledge out there without needing to keep your account if you don't want to. Some of those apps actually give you your comment history in a file when they're done.
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Now I will doomscroll on Lemmy. Problem solved
Tbh the lack of people and content here has limited my doom scrolling tremendously.
Also helps that everyone here is like a kid on their first day of high school or college. Zero toxicity! 😎
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I think this is exactly right. I plan to use info available on reddit as reference material if needs be, but I will no longer be posting and therefore creating more content for reddit to sell on in the future.
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It could help to add reddit.com to your hosts file or your ublock origin filter list.
I made sure to pause RIF so I don't just blindly click on it.
Yeah, I keep starting to type "reddit.com" into my browser address bar. Luckily "feddit.de" isn't too far off.
I'm not sure why you think you need to avoid Reddit at cost to you finding the information you're after.
If the information you want is on Reddit, why wouldn't you want to read it?
i have successfully made it a whole 12 hours without opening reddit. i've chewed a lot of gum and also been to the gym. i think i can do it.
In soviet Russia, Reddit habbit breaks you.
Same. When searching I had a shortcut on my keyboard for site:Reddit. com
I had to move Sync off the homepage of my phone to avoid the muscle memory of just clicking it mindlessly. I have caught myself once or twice wanting to type it into the URL.
Exactly what I did. I put Lemmy in it's place
I definitely had to move the icon...and so sad about Sync, it's like an old friend.
Don't delete it just yet, the app developer mentioned there is a chance he updates the API and app to work with Lemmy.
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What's weird is that I never used Reddit as much as I use Lemmy over last few days 😅
I'm not quite sure why, but Lemmy has the same effect on me.
I was pretty active on Reddit, but Lemmy feels different somehow. I genuinely want to engage multiple communities and post way more often.
The community is young so it feels good to add to it and make it bigger.
I think it’s because there are less of us so posts are not full of ”this is the way” comments on the top burying all the discussion. Also usually someone had already said what I would’ve said anyway 😄
I feel you. I try to make a point of commenting even though before I probably wouldn’t. I think Lemmy can really work, but we need to put in the effort.
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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.
I’ve already opened and quickly closed Apollo a dozen times today. Time to break the habit. Going to start reading instead of doom scrolling.
For me, once Apollo officially stops working I won't have any ingrained habit for reaching out to reddit. I stopped using the website years ago except for reading search results that point there.
I was trying to describe a former subreddit on a thread here and just habitually looked for its subreddit description and then remembered it was dark and that's why I was on lemmy in the first place.
It is a shame because there is so much knowledge on reddit that can be lost. Whenever I had a problem I would append reddit to my google search. Bug fixes for games, advice on purchases etc.
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What I find frustrating is that on iOS, the system put my Ice (Mastodon) icon into a Social folder but my Narwhal app was placed in Information and Reading! So my muscle memory has me tapping an icon in a different folder and I can't move Ice to where I want it. I'm trying to train myself to use the PWA links on my Home Screen for sh.itjust.works and kbin.social but it's a struggle.
I disabled the Infinity app on my phone, so even if i click out of habit it stops me
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!
ChatGPT can be a handy way to get certain information as well.
It was allegedly trained on reddit for cheap too!
It can be. It just also can be a handy way to get pure misinformation really convincingly. (I guess that's still not that different than Reddit lol)
Came here to say the same. I’ve replaced google searches with BingAI prompts and get what I need, AD free, just about every time.
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