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One gets the feeling that the Reddit leadership is "feeling themselves", and have lost sight of the fact that people can just walk away and suffer no ill consequences. In fact, it might even be in their psychological benefit to do so! Take a break, and maybe come back in a few months, a year, and see what distributed forums people have started. Sounds like a great thing for the internet, tbh.

(I finally deleted my Twitter account early this year, and apart from massimo I don't miss it - and turns out he's mirrored on mastodon.)




The break from reddit has really opened my eyes to what I'm afraid is a full blown smartphone/reddit/doom scrolling addiction.

I wonder how many other oblivious people like me there are who are realizing the negative effects of reddit on their psyche.


I’m far more addicted to scrolling on reddit than instagram. As good as modern social media algorithms are, my curated feed of niche interests and communities I’m a part of, is just a lot more addictive to me.

The format of mostly text based content (even if it’s an image on reddit, I’m mostly there for the discussion below) is a lot easier to open and look at for a few seconds than the mostly-video instagram/TikTok feed.




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