The red bar at the top of reddit saying I was permabanned got annoying after a few days
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.
get addicted to lemmy instead
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.
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.
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.
If you can’t bring yourself to give it up, at least use it productively: if you see something interesting there, copy it and post it on the Fediverse.
Get a perm.ban , thats easy .
And start talking to your wife and kids 🤔🤔
Post that you think people who abuse children should receive stricter punishments under the law.
Reddit will make the decision for you.
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 was like that at first, it went away over time. Now I have zero desire to spend time on that site.
What I did:
Deleted the app. I still go directly to the subreddit pages I want to see (in a browser), but without logging in, and without ever looking at the home feed.
I haven’t commented on Reddit or used the app in months now. TBH, I’m even annoyed I have to go over there for my niche subs, because I hate the advertisements. I really do enjoy lemmy more than Reddit now.
i may do that. as for the ads you should have firefox + ublock origin or brave to block ads.
Deleting the app did wonders for me. Well, Reddit deleted the app FOR me (Apollo user), and I refused to install their adware app onto my phone.
Forced me to only use it on PC, because visiting via phone browser showed like 3 comments on thread, then linked to some other thread, and insisted I install their adware for “a better experience”.
PC I was still browsing and occasionally commenting on old.reddit for a while, with uBlock on high censorship mode. But all my mobile browsing was gone.
Brave is spyware. Stop recommending brave.
it isnt really,its even open source you can read its code.
Get very opinionated and say a lot of anti-Nazi stuff in admin-controlled subreddits like r/news. Shit on Elon Musk and DOGE. Celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk. Be pro-Palestine. Say Fuck Spez a lot. You’ll be permbanned in less than a month.
Their AI admin is turned up to 11 when detecting ban evasion (from humans, bots not so much), so it will be difficult to make an account again without getting permbanned instantly.
It worked for me.
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.
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!
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.
By clarifying to yourself why you don’t want to use it anymore. So far, your reasoning apparently isn’t very convincing yet.
