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by skilled
1154 days ago
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Meh, Reddit is a boring platform outside of your personal interests. I myself follow only one subreddit and check maybe other 4-5 for news/updates, but none of these are in the top 1000, maybe not even top 10,000 subreddits. I find Reddit culture to be bland and uninspiring. Even technical/niche subreddits get absolutely run over by "noobs" and people who have too many questions but too little patience to do research for themselves. And comments on Reddit are beyond bland - they might as well adopt a slogan of "The Parrot Club" at this point. My point being, Reddit is likely the easiest platform to give up because it never provided any value/intrigue in the first place. |
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To me, the fact that there's an active subreddit specifically for every personal interest is exactly what makes it so addictive. It's a very concentrated dose of the drug. Like I'm in the US Army, and there's r/army where basically every thread hits very close to home, so I have a strong opinion or a story or insight to share. Then I'm also into personal finance, and there's even r/MilitaryFinance because a lot of personal finance issues are unique to our situation.
Before Reddit, there were some old-school forums for these niches, but they were short-lived and not nearly as active. On bigger, more active old-school forums about something like personal finance, most of the threads just don't pertain to me so it's easier to use them in moderation. Like a thread about military stuff will end up here on Hacker News once every couple of weeks, and I'll get excited to make a comment, but that's it.
Anyway, I decided that I needed to logout from Reddit, delete my browsing history so that old.reddit.com didn't autofill in my address bar anymore (I wasn't even using the mobile app), and delete my Reddit password from my password manager.