I hate doom scrolling. Successfully quit all my other doom scrolly sites fairly easily, but reddit is a monster. I was able to deal with the likes of twitter by just adding a block to the domain in hosts. but reddit is basically core internet infrastructure. I never notice until I try blocking it, but most days multiple times a day I will search something where the answer is clearly given on a reddit post, and essentially no where else (or rather it is probably elsewhere but that elsewhere has been buried in the search results by reddit's ease of access and brevity of answer)
once I'm back in reddit, it's too easy to start looking at other things. I hate it. I never feel better looking at reddit, it's just like lost time happening intermittently.

Use Old Reddit Redirect extension, it isn't a solution to your problem, but will make it harder for you to doom scroll: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

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nice ya, that seems like it will do the trick. limits home page only to subscribed subreddits rather than the ai generated personalized stream of endless stuff. I was thinking about trying to get a css customizer for dark mode, but thought again, it being garish to look at is probably a good thing. Thanks.

I believe the answer lies with self discipline, denpabro. That and distain for the site as a whole. At least that is what stops me from using it. You say that you hate it, op, and that it doesn't make you feel good yet you still scroll through it, and to me at least this seems like a you problem rather than the site itself (which is a steaming pile of shit by the way, and always has been since its beginning)

You wrote that you dealt with Twitter by blocking it and you could block Reddit too, however does this address your tendency to doomscroll? Won't you go do it on the next social media platform? Instead you could try to resist temptation to visit these places and each time you resist you can reflect on your based discipline and self control.

How can you even get into Reddit?
It's format of replies upon replies hurts to look at

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well, i don't disagree. but it's also like quitting smoking. It's a lot easier when you throw out the ones you have. i might start vaping again, but vaping isn't smoking. and ya, it's probably better to not vape too.
Since implementing >>2 i havn't added another infinite scroll site. and im not looking for any. I had one moment where I someways ended on the default feed list again, after reading a post, I'm not really sure how. but same as before lost time fugue state of about a minute before I realized "oh im scrolling reddit again :/ "

>>5 addiction to being pissed off for me. sounds stupid because it is. I don't bother reading through comments most of the time. It's borderline unusable. it's the feed itself, the topics. autoplay videos / meme pictures. they mostly all piss me off to some degree or another. The occasional "good" post or honest question - the skinner box reward. but if it was "boring" rather than "irritating" I never would have spent any substantial time on it.

Unfortunately, until there is a good Reddit replacement (maybe Lemmy?), I'm stuck there since all discussion of my hobbies are there.

I feel it not coincidential that the ai techbros sought out the almost endless text of reddit for training their ai. Especially if you consider the meme of typing reddit at the start of a question to find the answer. Makes me feel like they are the text version of youtube, where lots of things are central to how reddit works and is the default for quite a lot of searches, like youtube is now.

An alternative, though cumbersome, is to set up your own archive, capturing shots of reddit for the queries you wish to keep. Sore em all in a dedicated 'reddit threads' file, capture everything and anything, until the information you need is all on a hard drive and can avoid typing the same things over and over again into google just to find reddit answers. You can get addons for firefox that store reddit threads ( or even most web pages ) as a png file. There is a limit to how long the page can be though before it fails to capture, which you could suss out over time. There's also ways to capture them as web pages viewable offline, but take up wayyy more storage. Images take up less disk space.

If you were dedicated and used a pc, this is one option. An offline reddit for your own use. It's not perfect, and takes up a bit of time, but if you do it, eventually you'll have a copy of your own digital searches.

but take up wayyy more storage. Images take up less disk space.

wut?
just highlight the text and save it as raw text. archive the html only. what makes site mirrors big is all the js, images, etc. the actual text is /tiny/ and grepable.

>>9 Good point. Text takes up the least space, and raw text is enough for some. Perhaps some people may want to save them as HTML, for example. PNG primarily isn't always desireable, same with text. Up to you what you save and how

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Just use the Singlefile extension or, if you're a little smarter, pywb as a proxy. The newest of the new soyjak party nusoiBABY is probably more tech literate than the average denpa/technology/ user.
If you just want to save text I would look into mercury/Mozilla's readability library

Block the domain in hosts and whenever a search result leads you to a reddit post, if you really want to see it, copy the link and manually change the url to eddrit or some other barely functional alternative frontend. Don't automate the process. With time you will come to realize that most reddit posts are quite useless as well and you wont find it worth it to open it since it requires extra manual labor and you will become better at finding the right information in those other buried places and piecing the answer together by yourself.

use this to grab lots of reddit.
stores conversations in markdown. links in auto redirecting html files. grabs most media files.
https://github.com/josephrcox/easy-reddit-downloader

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replace downloader.js in ./lib with this to get comments for image/link posts : https://files.catbox.moe/z27t9o.js

Commit a petty crime and do like a month of jail time. That will clean up your head from internet addictions.