What Are the Various Strategies to Wean Yourself Off Reddit?

My app quit working, and I never downloaded the official one. Problem solved!

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 just left once my 3rd party app stopped working and never went back because Lemmy sufficiently fills the void.

Not patronizing Reddit and instead spend quality time trying to make Lemmy better.

A cold turkey move to the Fediverse.

Can i cross reply from lemmy.world to lemmy.ca?

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.

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.

Delete your account. Make it feel final.

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.

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

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.

I just don't use Reddit

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.

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.

The app I was using got broken so I left

Pick another social media to use in it's place.

i switched fully and immediately, originally to fling up and them lemmy.blahaj.zone too.

An app that only lets you view, like RDX, because what usually keeps people addicted is the replies and notifications

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 :)

Sub.rehab can help you find equivalent communities to the subreddits you visit. If there isn't a Fediverse version of your community yet, start your own. That's what I did.

If you're nostalgic for Old Reddit, use "Old" Lemmy.

Aggressively seeding fedi discussions

sever your latent emotions towards it and let it die in your heart. easy

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.

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.

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.