I quit cold turkey by dns blocking Reddit everywhere and deleting narwhal. I don’t know how people can quit in any other way. Apps like Reddit are designed to be addictive, so it’s no surprise that people have a hard time giving them up.
like many on reddit, most of us was forced out either due to site-wide banning on all accounts they have been doing. or the sudden shadowbannings they have been doing alot lately.
i do checkup on the shadowbanning subreddit , to see how aggressive they are banning people.
I had a pretty bad reddit habit. Sometimes would do the thing of quitting the app and opening it back up quickly after.
I was using boost and it worked for a long time after it was supposed to stop working. The day it actually stopped working I went over to Lemmy.
Reddit is pretty bad with the propaganda, bots, censorship and what not. It was definitely getting worse before I left and isn’t any better.
I have the official reddit app installed because sometimes reddit will have something I need and using the web browser on my phone is somehow worse than their shitty app.
I wish there was more engagement on Lemmy. I understand all the reasons it’s difficult to grow though and honestly there’s a lot of quality conversations going on
Habits are hard to break.
I’m predominantly here because my habit was tied to a 3rd party app that stopped working with the API changes.
I’m still here because it’s good, but it was the habit being broken that pushed me here in the first place.
I quit cold turkey by dns blocking Reddit everywhere and deleting narwhal. I don’t know how people can quit in any other way. Apps like Reddit are designed to be addictive, so it’s no surprise that people have a hard time giving them up.
like many on reddit, most of us was forced out either due to site-wide banning on all accounts they have been doing. or the sudden shadowbannings they have been doing alot lately. i do checkup on the shadowbanning subreddit , to see how aggressive they are banning people.
I had a pretty bad reddit habit. Sometimes would do the thing of quitting the app and opening it back up quickly after.
I was using boost and it worked for a long time after it was supposed to stop working. The day it actually stopped working I went over to Lemmy.
Reddit is pretty bad with the propaganda, bots, censorship and what not. It was definitely getting worse before I left and isn’t any better.
I have the official reddit app installed because sometimes reddit will have something I need and using the web browser on my phone is somehow worse than their shitty app.
I wish there was more engagement on Lemmy. I understand all the reasons it’s difficult to grow though and honestly there’s a lot of quality conversations going on