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.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Get permabanned. My offense: virulent anti-nazism (the offending comment had 64 up votes when it was deleted). Not very compelling once they ban you. I commented that we should take President Eisenhower’s approach to dealing with Nazis on a post that had a picture of Nazis marching in Wisconsin.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      2·
      3 days ago

      I got permabanned for inciting violence against places when I sarcastically told another commenter that their idea to pour concrete over new housing construction sites would surely solve the housing crisis.

      • 1ns1p1d@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I too was permabanned for inciting violence. I suggested Princess Leia should strangle Trump with her chain. Is this a new thing maybe? The story is common.

        I like Lemmy. It reminds me of early reddit. For me, it’s a shame to watch it slowly bring more of the dumb junk I didn’t like into the mix. It’s inevitable, I guess, but the memes and reddit culture are bleeding out of their containers and into the other sections. Im seeing more balanced views and it’s kind of nice to read intelligent posts from people I disagree with rather than the mudslinging from common reddit views. There’s safety in numbers, and people know what is reddit-popular to say. Opposing views are buried there.

  • thericofactor
    7·
    4 days ago

    Don’t comment, don’t upvote or downvote. Use it read only from now. Watch the AI comments shitify the whole site until it’s so bad you’ll want to leave it anyway.

  • starman2112
    5·
    4 days ago

    In my experience, you can simply talk about how you can’t wait for conservatives to die from listeria after the new head of HHS recommends drinking listeria, and you’ll get banned for glorifying violence

    That’s made it a lot easier to avoid wasting time on there

    • dream_weasel
      3·
      3 days ago

      That will get you banned around here too though if you aren’t careful.

      Two nights of drinking and rage commenting around election day has eliminated my need to browse politicalmemes though… So maybe still fine?

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    6·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
    3·
    4 days ago

    Delete reddit from your history entirely. Wipe it off the face of your browser as if it never existed. That helped with me since I do most of my navigation via address bar recommendations and the speed dial page.

  • IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 days ago

    set a rule for yourself, the moment you feel your blood pressure rising because of something on reddit, close it out and don’t go back for a while.

    edit: I just did this for myself and lasted about 25 seconds before I saw something stupid enough to make me want to choke the person through the screen. reddit is back on the block list :)

    • dream_weasel
      2·
      3 days ago

      Yeah… That ain’t me.

      I’m more of a “you’re the one that sucks, why should I leave?” kind of guy. Which basically means you tell people what you think until they ban you and then it’s no problem anymore.