All the users scrubbing their comments from reddit with protest messages are doing gods work in making people more upset with reddit over this. Long live the fediverse now I guess.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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If you don't run your own search (SearxNG) and dont use pihole, you can get the uBlacklist extension for chrome/firefox to blacklist Reddit in search results on Google/Bing/DDG/etc.
To deter myself further, I even went so far as to block any search results from Reddit in my SearxNG instance.
If anyone else is interested.
In settings.yml uncomment the following, they are commented out by default
enabled_plugins:
- 'Hostname replace' # see hostname_replace configuration below
hostname_replace:
Then add '(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': false under hostname_replace, restart SearxNG and bobs your uncle.
this is already so much like reddit of old, im cool with it. if it comes up in a search thats fine, might port the data though!
yeah, it's very difficult. even in google searches, the links come up and I then realize how much I depend on reddit for google searches.
I've been testing out other search engines and have currently landed on Brave Search. Every single time you search, there's a big block of threads from reddit near the top of the search results. It's not been easy to stay away.
i removed my reddit bookmarks and added lemmy instead. now i instinctually come here instead.
I setup TimeLimit to block the reddit apps for some time. I hope it can help you with the redde-addiction.
I simply replaced the Reddit Sync shortcut with Jerboa on my phone, works wonders for me :) just need to find a few good replacement communities
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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.
I've never been a huge fan of reddit as a source of good information. I have expertise in a couple of areas (doctorate in one) and every time I saw an answer to a question that fell in my wheelhouse, it was quite possibly the wrongest answer possible and upvoted to the top. Always made me suspicious of the info I was getting in subreddits where I don't know shit.
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What's weird is that I never used Reddit as much as I use Lemmy over last few days 😅
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i have successfully made it a whole 12 hours without opening reddit. i've chewed a lot of gum and also been to the gym. i think i can do it.
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 🙁
I'm considering filtering reddit out using Portmaster since I use Portmaster anyway.
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