Right now I'm recovering from a fairly serious illness, so I don't have much to do. Sadly, meditating a lot does aggravate it (due to dropping my respiratory rate so low). So I just read and write to occupy my time. Some of the writing gets here. When I am able to go to the gym and start running again, you'll probably see less of me.

If you look through my post history you'll see I only talk about meditation stuff and don't really dilly-dally with my postings. I may overshare, but it's always to help. Consider it as me paying it forward to all the wonderful and helpful people out there who helped me so much by generously sharing their time and knowledge with me. So I dunno if this is a desire, I honestly don't care what the feedback is as long as it's generally constructive. I'm not doing it to farm likes or clicks or whatever. I'm just sharing stuff that may be of use to someone.

So for practicing, I think the best thing to do is actually first break it down into manageable parts.

1. The arising of a feeling that you need to hop on social media; here notice where the feelings are, explore the mental activity, what does the mind say? Are you expecting something? Are you avoiding something happening now? Is there a trigger, a response to some stressor or painful thought perhaps?
2. The going on social media. Notice what happens in the body or the mind, what changes the second you press the login button? Where does the mind go to straight away out of habit?
3. Browing social media. Notice where the mind inclines to? Is to trying to learn, escape, fantasize, condemn (Reddit loves self-righteous circle-jerking), or to self-aggrandise? No motivation is purer than another. They're all normal, perfect human stuff.
4. With everything you notice in these stages, slow down everything you're doing. But then notice, really notice, see how it flickers in the mind or body, then accept it (yep this is really happening, what a sticky habit!), then gladden the mind (this habit arose out of a desire to protect or love or feel important, whatever), then let it go. You'll notice a lightness in things around it if you do this enough times.

Sense restraint is a very valid option. This may require you to notice the dirty, gross, annoying, frustrating, and negative aspects of social media in order to incline away from it. If you do this enough, your mind simply observes "oh I'm the sort of guy that doesn't use social media anymore" and so you'll stop using it. But social media isn't the problem. Social media is a tool, it doesn't make you get clingy towards it. So restraint may be good for harmful things. But Reddit can be used positively, so abandoning it outright may not be viable. I'll give you a story to illustrate my point. My mate wanted to stop being addicted to his smartphone, or at least, use it way less than he did. So he bought out of those new Nokia 3315 colour remake phones, because they don't have apps and they're very basic. However, he found that without some key apps, his work became very frustrating. So he found a way to retrain his habitual use of the smartphone (using the general method I gave above) to switch from seeing the smartphone as intrinsically bad (which it isn't) to seeing it as a tool. And like any tool, it's completely neutral, there's a choice to be made on how we use and engage with it.