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.