I posted a few weeks ago about how I didn’t feel like quitting reddit just yet. and, honestly, I still have a hard time not opening my phone every five minutes to check it.

but I decided to quit because I realized how much of a negative echo chamber it was. I couldn’t even mute certain words on the reddit app so I had to keep seeing the same shit over and over again in the popular feed.

it’ll be a long road moving from one platform to another, but I’m pretty satisfied not being strangled by reddit’s overwhelming snark and negativity.

dunno if anyone here feels a similar way, but felt like sharing my thoughts.

  • Flagstaff@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    I can’t get ragebait out of my feed any more. I block a subreddit and five more with identical depressing and/or rage-inducing content take its place.

    The way to optimize is to make a multireddit of only your preferred subreddits and check that over and over again. For example, for me, https://old.reddit.com/r/AutoHotkey+FreeGameFindings+news plus a bunch of other ones, whatever you’re comfortable with and enjoy. Be highly selective about what you add to this multireddit and then Reddit becomes heaven because of your awesome filtering.

    • Inf_V@kbin.earthOP
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      4 days ago

      still doesn’t change the annoying culture reddit has which is ultimately why I left.

      • Flagstaff@programming.dev
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        3 days ago

        I don’t know what culture that is. I guess I have an extremely particular list of subs that dodges that for the most part.