[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/