I know, I know, reddit sucks ass. I’ve been using firefox with ublock to read the best ofs for the unquenchable need for bullshit drama in my life.
But now it’s not just a pop up saying to use the app, but a full ass unpassable thing. Old Reddit still works, but that’s just another step for something that’s already so not worthwhile.
Welp…
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https://f-droid.org/packages/com.cosmos.unreddit
It may stop working at some point
What is this community? First it’s all reddit reposts and now it’s this
I haven’t read a Reddit page since I switched from Protonvpn to Mullvadvpn.
Reddit seems to allow Proton but blocks Mullvad.
Another reason to appreciate Mullvad.
Try an alternative fronted like redlib.catsarch.com for when you really need to view the page. Unfortunately, there is still too much valuable info there, which is surfaced by search engines
I’ve been on Reddit for 16 years now, it’s just not the same anymore. The only reason I stick around is my local subreddit. I have no interest in Reddit anymore.
Problem is that it’s still where so many people are. It’s honestly such a shame that more people won’t move to lemmy… Because in comparison there’s barely anyone here. And the only reason these kinds of websites are useful is that there’s a lot of people on them
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Majority of the posts on the popular subreddots are written by bots.
the subs that allow pictures, and screenshots, and videos are the most obvious. you can tell they are reposting but they try to obscure when the "tweet’ was posted by blacking out the date/time. pics during the election year was so obvious “biden genocide” pics, it wasnt pointing out what trump/gop were supporting too. luckily there was any sense in the mod prior to the massive purges, that it was removed.
I was on reddit every day for damn near 20 years, and if I’m being 100% honest, the fediverse is 10,000% better. The only problem is that not enough people interact. I’ve never seen a post with more than like 200 comments. It feels a bit empty here. But, on the other hand, 200 decent comments is better than 2000 shitty ones.
Once this place gets a few more users, it’s gonna be the GOAT.
I prefer the fewer comments here. Who want’s to read 1200+ comments, 50% of which are the same tired jokes?
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reddit was better before 2016, before trump took the white house the first time, almost as soon as took the WH, russia realized that reddit was a good place to use bots/propaganda, then we see sudden increase in politicl aposts, and then ban of “Questionable” subs. orignially because of this you would make different account for different niches to avoid a ban affecting other accounts.
Careful what you wish for, the larger the sample size the dumber it gets
We’re already getting bots and trolls and the mods often do nothing about them.
Yep. Happened with bluesky. It was pretty decent and wasn’t getting any troll crap that was rampant on Twitter. Then there was some controversy on Twitter and Blue sky quickly went up in its new members and…yep, it just got all trolly and agro 🙄
Personally I just miss when we had individual sites for a topic like when I was a teenager. Grew up on forums for a certain artist and another different site for specific sports teams, books. Way less likely to get idiots if you actually have to actively find the specific website for an artist you hate.
Maybe it will go back to this. I say that because there is a comeback of personal web pages from 00’s
I loved forums. I have a group of friends I met on a forum and we rarely talk about that subject anymore but we’re still really close.
This… People keep dreaming of reddit crashing and burning or going under but, realistically if that did happen a good portion of the existing userbase will filter into the fediverse somewhere, and thats a lot of inorganic growth. Currently there are a handful of popular topics, and some niche topics. Yes there are also reddit like mannerisms but, when people slowly filter in, the room can be read and the existing culture remains, when a mass intake happens (like what happend with the API debacle) the influx is faster than the adoption and the culture comes with it.
ikr soon as this place gets too big I’m taking off to something else.
Fedi being way slower than Reddit was a godsend to me. It helped me detox from the endless content on Reddit because I was going loopy.
After the 5th scroll past the same boring hornypost I’m like “ugh I guess I’ll put the phone down and go to sleep.”
While I agree, there are plenty of chill subreddits that are full of interaction and the counterparts here aren’t very active. I know that it’s up to us to start creating the posts but I’m more of a lurker and replier.
i usually visit identifying unknown plant (it was fun since i was able to see people post rare and unusual plants that are very rarely seen by normally)and animal subs, because politics post is designed to get people to be angry and comment.
I need to find a client that does paginating instead of infinite scroll. It’s like a fucking vortex, I can’t pull myself away from it…
Its better this way. Limited content. You have to out the phone down and do something else
Onze this place gets enough users, it’s gonna be exactly the same.
I’m new, came over a couple weeks ago. Others will come.
Welcome!
I agree with you. Coming up on at least my second year here and I do love it, but I miss some parts of having the bigger crowd.
I think it’s fine as is. The worst part of reddit was opening an interesting post and finding the comments full of jokes and badly remembered quotes.
Edit: That was probably due to the awards creating perverse incentives but still, the more comments there are the more striking a comment needs to be to be on top
It had a lot more with being first to comment than it did about the quality of your comment. After about 100 comments your chances of being near the top were pretty much gone.
I absolutely fell in love with reddit when I joined 19 years ago. Up until the Digg migration I loved it maybe even more than the BBS’ I was on in my youth. But it steadily went downhill from there, and I thank Jebus every day for the fediverse because it brings back that good old energy that I was missing. Reddit is so unpleasant compared to here.
finally? since they unilaterally banned people with no ability to appeal because they cant be bothered to “hear all the appeals” its been dead since they use AI moderation. i think thier ban affected the site enough that bots have been the mostly source of “engagement” now. plus spez/musk/gop wants to push a propaganda narrative for reddit, that hasnt fully capitulated like META, and tiktok, youtube.
That’s why I just left. You can use the redirect to old Reddit extension, but this is just so fucking dumb.
It’s like an extra step, to get access to their ads too. No idea why anyone was paying for ads on Reddit before, but seems more pointless now
Reddit doesn’t like my VPN, so for the times when it comes up in my search or a buddy sends me something from there I have an extension in firefox now to redirect reddit links to redlib.
It’s called libredirect. It’s got a bunch of sites so you can avoid most of those shitty pop-ups if you set them up.
It’s a loss, but I’ve come to see it as just a part of the endless treadmill of 1. Go to where the cool people are 2. Uncool people show up 3. It gets bad 4. Look for the cool people. Feels like that’s always going to be the way of it.
Always has been.
The Situationists even created new words to describe how radical ideas are co-opted by the mainstream in ways that reduce or outright removing radicalism from the ideas, making them more palatable for mainstream society. They called it recuperation. They also argued we needed to be doing the opposite, and taking the banal and making it radical, which they called détournement. This was often exemplified in the 80s/90s/early 2000s through subversion and revision of corporate advertising, often called “culture jamming.”
I’m always happy when people bring that up, it happens too rarely. I was exposed to Discordianism as a kid, which is kind of the Idiot’s Guide version of culture jamming. I didn’t come across Guy Debord until later, when I’d already made up my mind that everything about mainstream society needed to be subverted. Sadly, it seems I’m not very good at it.
Don’t worry, Debord didn’t think he was either! He actually thought that his Situationist writing would be forgotten and that he would be remembered for his (ironically now forgotten) board game Kriegspiel. Instead Society of the Spectacle is now considered an important piece of French culture and history.
That is oddly uplifting, as a failed game designer as well.
Yes. That’s a good thing.
It’s almost like we’re suppose to build and guard our communities and interest against tho… sorry I meant do nothing and complain.
Support your local federated instance, hold mods and admins to task, get to know people in your community, report trolls and push to defederate instances run poorly or in bad faith. If that ends up not being enough, fuck I dunno.
get to know people in your community
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FWIW I get that pop up on my iphone, but it goes away and proceeds to the site using Safari.
I’ve been seeing this for a long time now, as they blocked VPN and anonymous access, so I use a combination of cached pages and libredirect if I really want to bother going there.
reddit blocks people who use vpns, or will shadowban you if it somehow evades this page. they are too aware of it now. new devices, proxies, anti-detect browsers+ proxy intergration, new browser, fingerprinting are usually the only other way of getting around it(this method can be pricey if intend to make money off of reddit). apparently some vpns do get through reddit, but you probably shouldnt use the cheap or free ones, or the highly abused ones.
I’ve hit that and just switched IPs on the same VPN. The other VPN I use has never hit the screen.
I always thought that once I moved here, I might still visit reddit but I almost never do. And much of the reason is those fucking stupid cartoon mascots. "snoo"s iirc? FML.
They did that about a year or so after I blocked reddit via DNS. No idea why, I don’t use a VPN for reddit, and I hadent given them any traffic outside the once and awhile checking a tech support post, but something about my network triggered it.
No big loss.
old reddit still works. I had to install an extension to auto redirect to the old.reddit URL the other day cuz I was troubleshooting something and the ONLY things about it were on Reddit and I noticed that bullshit app advertisement too.
