Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats to Protesting Mods, as Ad Buyers Leave

Re:Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats to Protesting Mods, as Ad Buy... by tnecniv on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:03PM (#36539480)

I realized a while back I basically used it as a fidget toy: open it, scroll, realize I’m not reading anything, close it.

Breaking that passive hand habit has been the hardest part but my use will drop to 1% of what it was. I’m not going to quit completely because I don’t use other social media and sometimes I have questions related to a specific thing that I’m not sure where else to ask, but those instances are quite rare.

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Re:Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats to Protesting Mods, as Ad Buy... by isk517 on Friday June 30, 2023 @03:42PM (#36541049)

I was probably worse: open it, scroll, open link and briefly read it, spend 10 minutes scrolling through the comments until I see something that makes me angry/sad/depressed, repeat. Now that I've stopped using it I'll just open up 2048 or Cribbage if I need a quick distraction, otherwise I start reading from a novel.

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