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Just by clicking on a Reddit link you are benefitting them. I avoid Reddit altogether and just adjusted my intake habits to that new reality. The end result of my exit from Reddit and Twatter is that since then I went from never reading books to finishing four novels borrowed from my local library system, and I've taken guitar back up.
Your brain will find another time sink. It's what we (humans with idle time) do.
100% agree. I probably spend 60% of the time I spent on reddit on Lemmy and have more fun, find more interesting content and engage in more interesting and productive discussion.
I learn just as much on Lemmy (with the exception of local news) and the users I interact with are better informed and kinder.
I DO miss that local news / engaged local community.
my idle time is the 10/15 mins between tasks and i retain less than 5% of anything i read within 15 minutes of reading it.