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I find that Reddit sucks the joy out of my day. There's just something about that site.

Carefully select subreddits and make sure to only use old.reddit.com It doesn't have all that 'engagement' crap of the newer version

This is sooo true. I realized that there are actually some subreddits that are well moderated, and toxic stuff is quickly removed.

I also made it a point to stop browsing Reddit at the first comment that is either posted by a troll or is off topic in a bad way.

Reddit has turned into a cult-like site. It's not there to inform you or to make you laugh.

Even if you want to watch funny videos someone will manage to inject there something political that will turn into something that can ruin your peace of mind.

Reddit is cute dog gifs on the surface and a quickly sloping pit of torment once you sink into it. I'm glad to have deleted it from my phone. I browse the internet much more responsibly on a laptop. I deleted all social and news apps from my phone, I basically have email, maps, and a chess app. I was bored for a day, but now that I'm not pumping stupidity into my eyes through this phone I'm actually creating music and learning chess deeply. I'm much more conscious of constructive uses of my time now. Gotta cut that cord, most of you are probably addicted to those apps.

I noticed the same a few years back. Now I only interact with Reddit through Apollo (iOS app) which allows me to add heavy filters, removing most subreddits and removing posts containing certain keywords. Anytime I see any FUD content on a subreddit I block it, which includes all political subreddits and almost all big subreddits. In addition I have a time limit set on my phone to avoid looking at it too frequently, and because of all the filters almost all FUD content is blocked and what remains is mostly hobbyist stuff and cute animal pictures. I have blocked it on my laptop using the hosts file to avoid even opening it there.

It's a sad state but I feel that heavy filters are essentially required for healthy social media/internet consumption nowadays. The amount of FUD is out of control, and directly responsible for a ton of social unrest and depression in many people.

This is a very common response when someone talks about reddit being unenjoyable. I tried a similar approach. I think almost everybody in tech either doesn’t use reddit or uses it through a similar approach. This response and behavior is so common I think reddit specifically encourages such highly customized behavior, because things people customize and create have a higher stickiness factor.

I was interested in reading politics but not Trump stuff. Adding a Trump filter in /r/politics removed 95% of all posts on the front page. It's wild

The world is burning in a lot of ways. Am I think the content on Reddit represents the realisation and fears of that.

I was getting super depressed lately and cut, as a result of that, almost all news, Reddit and Twitter out of my life.

The situation is just to crazy to deal with it every day.

The world isn't burning, the media definitely is though. That's a dying animal doing everything it can to keep your eyes glued to the "latest disaster" and their ads of course. We are going to get a vaccine and slowly work back to normal. If you are concerned about the world, do something about your little slice of the world. Pick up some trash and drop some groceries off for an elderly neighbor.

^ I have a hard time being down when I’m helping others. The opportunity is all around us. Thanks for posting flightless!

The world is burning.

This summer was the third very dry summer in germany. A dryness i haven't seen before.

A dryness which hurt the trees outside of my window as they did not get enough water, which i also have not seen.

But don't get me wrong. Knowing whats going on is stressful, reading irrelevant drama and not reading about people who are changing and trying to change the world is frustrating.

Instead of reading about new and less co2 producing stuff, i read about an idiot trump who plays kindergarden tantrum on the highest political level. The level which should give a direction and guidance.

And yes i'm not from the USA but if 'not even' the USA can do it, i can't expect a lot more countries not to do it.

At least my country is reasonable boring and smart (yes germany go germany :P)

It's about what subs you choose. Choose some genuinely funny ones, and not too much time on them and it can be a positive! And some of the programming subs are really nice communities. Supportive, helpful and informative.

Don’t open it. Block. Uninstall.

(tildes.net is pretty wholesome)

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