So I’m pretty sure most of you guys also came from reddit. Or at least, a majority of you did. So I think you all understand how addictive it can be. I’m not going to lie, in the past few years I really liked to go up every now and then to troll stupid and harmful people. But lately, I realised it’s all a waste of time because it’s not like I can actually hurt them - I mean I did manage to hurt them but only because they were dumb enough, but it’s not like I can actually “”act upon my judgement”” or any other cringe thing an edgelord can think about. But yeah, I’ve grown tired of negativity, and I want to be a… wholesome person, I think. But sometimes when relaxing, I get the urge to hop back on Reddit to troll some people just because, which I don’t want. I mean don’t misunderstand me, I didn’t entirely gave up on Reddit bc I still have an account there and I do go up if I want to see gaming shit or anything related to my niche interest, I’m just avoiding some specific subreddits. So what should I do? Does anyone else have similar feelings as I do?
I switched from “Boost for Reddit” to “Boost for Lemmy”, found as many equivalent subs as I could, and just went from there.
Because I’m using essentially the same interface, it’s a very similar experience.
I’d say that doing a partial switch is much harder than doing a full one. I went all in and just replaced all my bookmarks so that my muscle memory didn’t bring me there but here instead.
Yep. I swapped my bookmarks, deleted my main account, and just kinda ceased using reddit almost entirely. I still have an alt I use very rarely to browse some niche subs, but that’s about it.
+1 on deleting the account. Having no familiarity was a big leaning factor on going to Lemmy.
Don’t think of it as stopping, quitting or denying yourself something. Get better hobbies. Take up a new interest. Fill your life with things that make trolling on the internet seem lame and stupid in comparison.
I can’t relate with this feeling of wanting to “troll people on Reddit” at all. Are you conjoined at the hip with them? Is your identity defined by your relationship with them?
Cut them out. Try some scissors.
Interrupt your habits.
- Uninstall the app, if you use that.
- Log out in your browser.
- If you use ublockorigin, add reddit.com to the custom block list
- Use a password manager, change your password to something you can’t remember. Then in your password manager, put a prefix on it like
(take-a-break), so you have to go through the hassle of editing it to log in.
You don’t need to be up to the minute or even the day for most of your interests, you can catch up when you have time to do so intentionally.
Interruptions cause you to slow down and give your will power a moment to catch up and intervene.
