I'm not using Reddit on its own app nor the browser.
The app is huge and clunky.
The browser is turtle slow.
Neither gives me the granularity that Apollo gives me. The swipe controls are slick and so are the filters.
If I can't consume it with Apollo then it ain't worth it to me. And I already paid for the app. I refuse to pay more for something that is not a necessity.
Apollo would have to become a subscription to be sustainable and in a time where everybody wants to make a subscription out of everything I, on the other hand, am in a shut down everything that is not essential mode.
This is not essential. Neither is Netflix. Neither is Disney Plus. I'm looking for more to cut. And while, i can currently afford all this, that might not always be the case and I'm sick of subscriptions that just are just leeching out of our $$$ our bank accounts month to month and that eventually add up.
Also, I've been considering cutting back on toxic social media and maybe this is just the right push I need.
Oh well. Had a good run.
*shrugs*
But what no one thinks about is how much the productivity we lose from wasting time on Reddit is costing us. If I cut out my Reddit use (while just at work), and replaced that with actual work.... I could easily make $3,000 to $4,000 dollars more a year.
And I am not particularly well paid. I don't make 6 figures, so that amount of money is a pretty huge deal for me.
But still our brains think in terms more like.... well I'd pay $25 for this one time, but I won't pay $5 per month because that's just TOO MUCH.