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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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 🙁

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A suggestion I've seen is to add reddit.com to your ublock origin "my filters" page. It works great for me!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Forward it to Lemmy :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I keep starting to type "reddit.com" into my browser address bar. Luckily "feddit.de" isn't too far off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Anyone have a good regex to add to my pi-hole to block reddit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Has anyone had any luck with using the wayback machine as an alternative? It may not work on more recent posts, but it should be a viable option for protesting subreddits and routing traffic away from Reddit.

I wonder how difficult it would be to make an extension that handled the redirection.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

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