[maxrecursion]

Ditched reddit about halfway through 2023 and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. I study and read actual stuff on my phone now, instead of browsing increasingly crappy content.

I do log on occasionally but it's only ever to ask a specific question or look at a game thread for one of the sport team I follow, and that is only once a week for a couple minutes. Hope I never go back to being a regular redditor.

[madamelic]

> Ditched reddit about halfway through 2023

I've been trying to kick Reddit for _years_.

The problem is that it actually has good content for niche interests. It constantly comes up in Google searches and about 50 - 60% of the time it either gives the answer or opens a deeper query.

I wish I could export all the knowledge from it and not have to unblock that terrible site. The smaller, focused subs aren't the problem, it's the entire frontpage and all the rest of the subreddits. It's somehow worse than junk food like I'd categorize other social media, it's like a hammer to the skull.

Somehow Stack Overflow is more a barren wasteland than Reddit, and Quora is even worse.

[thefz]

> The problem is that it actually has good content for niche interests.

I don't know. Even smaller subs like homenetworking are full of single-picture posts with a title like "what this?" "how fix?" and so on.

People don't even take the time to research a little bit, instead they snap a photo and hope for someone to think for them.

Browsing niche subs nowadays is embarassing, really.

[bovem]

I was going through something similar so I installed a plugin [1] that redirects all reddit links to old.reddit.com and started using RSS feeds on Inoreader [2] to follow the subreddits I like.

This helps me avoid mindless browsing on reddit.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... [2] https://www.inoreader.com/

[pointlessone]

I used to be on Reddit a lot. Small niche communities had a lot of great content. Then Reddit deleted my app for me and I stopped using Reddit altogether. Once in a while I end up on Reddit through a link in search results but I don’t just browse Reddit any more.

[Tempest1981]

> I study and read actual stuff on my phone now

What do you study, that works well on a small device?

My attempts to learn/study usually lead to opening a web browser, which leads me to dozens of tabs of tangents.

[matwood]

Every book I've read over the last decade+ has been on my phone. I also use my phone for language vocab practice. For large amounts of typing though, I still prefer a computer.

My wife OTOH almost fully operates on her phone. Her phone efficiency makes me feel like a smart phone luddite hah.

[maxrecursion]

I usually read tech stuff that doesn't require hands on coding to understand. At most, I just read their code examples to understand the concept. If I feel exploring it hands on will be worth while, I'll go back over it on my computer at the end of the day.

However, there are tons of great content linked from this site alone that doesn't require any hands on to understand. Get a few ebooks too, and you're set. But I'm general I don't sit on my phone a lot because I have kids, this is a 5-10 mins a couple times a day thing. Not long stretches at all.

[ponector]

You can study something like philosophy or psychology, reading books from the phone, listening lectures, etc.