I was like that at first, it went away over time. Now I have zero desire to spend time on that site.
Make a new community on your instance and be its caretaker. Post the content you want there to be, even if it’s a small niche. The variety and depth you add improves everyone’s Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin/Friendica experience, even if your niche isn’t for everyone.
Pick up a hobby to fill that mental gap 🙂
I got kicked off Reddit for posting that punching Nazis was a good thing.
I get banned left and right for making fun of nazis and reminding people that every day is punch a nazi day.
The nazis are such fragile snowflakes they can’t take some banter and the mods are so afraid that someone is offended that they take the side of weeping self identifying nazis that are backing murder en masse, which is apparently all okay because it’s just opinions.
I got a warning for pointing out how fucked up it is to obliterate a a school full of kids, but somehow destroying oil-producing infrastructure is considered indecent, according to Trump. So, I just deleted my account for good.
I said #FuckSpez and it worked like a charm.
To each his own, I guess.
To quote the meme, I like this one better.
To be fair, I wasn’t trying to get banned at the time, but I certainly got the message that honest opinions aren’t allowed on that site quickly enough.
The atheism sub perma banned me under the accusation of advocating for the harm of children for a one off random comment and I was suddenly just done. When I asked the mod about it I was given a string of personal attacks and muted. It was bizarre.
get addicted to lemmy instead
That was my strategy. Thought I’d give the fediverse a try during the blackout protests over the API lockdown. I missed reddit for a little while, but after a while I just didn’t anymore. Sure there’s not the avalanche of content here, but there’s substantially less bullshit too. Now if I end up back on reddit from a search for something in particular, I find myself amazed at how shit it all is.
This is the way. Deleted my account and all my comments and posts before the account and after a while of seeing how crap the posts were from web searches I told my search engine to filter that domain along with other cancer sites wikihow and fandom
The red bar at the top of reddit saying I was permabanned got annoying after a few days
Sometimes (since i still go on there for porn) Ill switch to all and within the first three posts I see some kind of cringe which just does not exist here and reminds me just how much better this place is, atleast for now.
I did it slowly over time. Every time reddit made a site wide change that worsened the user experience (which has been a lot since I joined a decade ago), I’d take one step to distance myself. First it was unsubscribing from major subreddits and engaging less, then staying logged out, then deleting the app but browsing on the web, and finally reddit pissed me off enough to try an alternative. So far I’ve already spent much less time doomscrolling online since this place isn’t filled with rage-baiting bot content.
If you usually go on Reddit on your phone, you could use parental controls to block the website with a passcode. Make sure you don’t know the passcode. Have it set by someone you trust, and tell them to never tell you what it is
I spent a good bit of time curating my follows on Lemmy/PieFed, so I see things that interest me here and don’t need to go back to Reddit. I still do occasionally for some niche stuff that’s not really available here, but I spend the bulk of my time here.
My #1 tip for stopping media addiction is to turn off notifications. There is simply nothing going on that requires your immediate attention. It can wait until you have time to check. Try it!
Find the most distasteful subrdit you can find, and sub to it.
Any of the US news related subs right?
Habits oft take about 1-season to train.
endure, & the unconscious-mind change’ll happen.
I’m autistic/woodenheaded, & even I made the switch, some years ago.
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Try using it without an account. Ween yourself off it by using a different front end like redlib. It sucks using it that way but it’ll make you want to use it less and less.
Slowly unsubscribe from things that aren’t worth your time, and remove apps and shortcuts to disrupt your unconscious muscle memory.
You can also fill that time with other things, it doesn’t necessarily have to be other social media :)
This works.
