I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I'm going to try giving up internet comment sections for a while to try and see if I can live without them. I have wasted far too much time on Reddit, Hacker News, and recently Lemmy (which I tried to use as a Reddit replacement).
The articles themselves would be nice to keep around, I haven't found enough RSS feeds to make my feed reader app populated enough. I will probably make a userscript to disable comments here, use Kagi search to minimize the amount of Reddit in my search queries, and overall use a solution like Screen Time to try to limit use of other sites I spend way too much time on.
I know a lot of users are going to Lemmy or Kbin, both of which are on the Fediverse.
Same. I'm actually attempting to make my own, but in similar motivation from your comment, i'm trying to make mine reduce engagement. I want something that explores the positives of social/link-aggs/etc, but doesn't try to keep engagement high.
Something that lets you check it once a day and not feel like you missed anything. etcetc
I think there were good things about Reddit but it is scary how deeply Reddit (and frankly, HN) have driven muscle memory and addictive doomscroll behavior. I'd love to see more people explore features which attempt to extract user value from these platforms but minimize addictive features.
The articles themselves would be nice to keep around, I haven't found enough RSS feeds to make my feed reader app populated enough. I will probably make a userscript to disable comments here, use Kagi search to minimize the amount of Reddit in my search queries, and overall use a solution like Screen Time to try to limit use of other sites I spend way too much time on.
I know a lot of users are going to Lemmy or Kbin, both of which are on the Fediverse.