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Reddit habit is hard to break. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by jezebelley@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it's crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.

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.

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[–] dmtalon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I made sure to pause RIF so I don't just blindly click on it.

[–] chaorace 2 points 2 years ago

In soviet Russia, Reddit habbit breaks you.

[–] cark@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] introvrt2themax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Maitreyi@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah, it's very difficult. even in google searches, the links come up and I then realize how much I depend on reddit for google searches.

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[–] arcrust@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Yep. Same here. I needed an answer about makemkv audio files. I instinctively clicked 3 different reddit links. Finally got my answer on some other random forum, but I feel like reddit would have been better 🙁

[–] tet42@ka.tet42.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you don't run your own search (SearxNG) and dont use pihole, you can get the uBlacklist extension for chrome/firefox to blacklist Reddit in search results on Google/Bing/DDG/etc.

To deter myself further, I even went so far as to block any search results from Reddit in my SearxNG instance.

If anyone else is interested.

In settings.yml uncomment the following, they are commented out by default

enabled_plugins:

- 'Hostname replace' # see hostname_replace configuration below

hostname_replace:

Then add '(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': false under hostname_replace, restart SearxNG and bobs your uncle.

[–] madwifi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I setup TimeLimit to block the reddit apps for some time. I hope it can help you with the redde-addiction.

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