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I installed a "focus" app on my phone. I set it to prevent launches of Boost (my third party app of choice) and the Reddit app (which I installed a while back and never bothered getting rid of) for the next two days.
When I try to launch either app, the focus app will tell me that I can't. I tested it this morning just to make sure it was working. Now, even if I try to visit Reddit out of force of habit, I'll have blocked myself from going there.
I've got a link to lemmy next to my reddit sync app, so I will see this every time I would have looked at reddit.
I just deleted my app. All the subreddits I used are gone, so there's really no temptation to use it.
Blocked it on pi-hole and removed the app from my phone.
I'm sucking at it. I keep sneaking over there to check for new modmails begging to be "let in" to the subreddits etc.
Keep using it if you want to, don't treat it like a tiktok challenge.
Uninstalled the app, blackholed the domain in my Pi-hole servers, and removed the domain from my web search results on my SearxNG server. I use Wireguard from my phone when out and about, so I'm always usnig Pi-hole and SearxNG.
Not avoiding yet, but I just cut my subscribed subreddits by about half. Should reduce my time there.
Reddit has a ton of useful knowledge on it, why would I avoid it? It is not just a platform to doomscroll on... As a social media platform it's as good as dead for me, but it is still a hyper forum with many worthwhile communities.