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.
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.
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 put in a plugin/browser block so i dont accidentally go there. if i ever need to, i have to disable it or open a private window. the extra steps worked at preventing relapse.
I just don’t use Reddit
Aggressively seeding fedi discussions
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.
What did it for me is I logged in one day and there was a post about bathroom politics having the same discussion we’ve been having for years with the most cringe takes I’ve ever seen.
When I realized that Reddit was leaning further right than it ever had, that was the last straw for me. It feels like 4chan light now.
I saw some transphobes on r/VictoriaBC commenting that
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“they don’t care” & “why are they wasting money on this” under the story of UVIC having the largest transgender archive and the moderators left those up… not mention they regularly attack folks with substance use disorders saying “we’re too soft on them”
I had to unsubscribe and block that subreddit.
Not patronizing Reddit and instead spend quality time trying to make Lemmy better.
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.
A cold turkey move to the Fediverse.
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.
Can i cross reply from lemmy.world to lemmy.ca?
And yes i can
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.
Delete the app off of your phone and set your swipe on your launcher to open your Lemmy app of choice. All I have to do is be on my home screen and swipe right with one finger and my Thunder app opens right up.
An app that only lets you view, like RDX, because what usually keeps people addicted is the replies and notifications
