That's why i deleted Reddit account twice and I moved to Lemmy, I don't want forcing you to use shitty Reddit app to view Unreviewed content subreddits
We're expecting a giant influx of users when the popular workaround, old.reddit.com (perhaps with RES to make it less outdated), inevitably gets shut down. Please try to make Lemmy a worthwile space in the meantime so that they stay!
As long as they’re fans of trans positive meme dumps and endless half-serious slap fights about distros, they'll feel right at home.
They won't even notice anything changed
...you also must despise Trump, and if you don't, you will.
Don't forget the Rule 34 manga and rhetoric of not sexualising anything. Also the college kid Marxists.... and Linux cults... And figuring out liberalism and "American liberals" are polar opposites. Basically avoid .ml And obviously don't let anyone know your skin colour, gender, or sexual preferences if they're vanilla. And support all war that's against Russia. I think that's it- Oh, and don't reply to the same person more than twice in a thread.
Apart from that, they'll feel right at home.
Ah, yeah, and obv use Thunder.
Reddit is already rate-limiting old.reddit.com traffic. There are already few threads about it.
And please actively remind people to remain civil. We can be better than Reddit in so many ways. I believe!
I think Lemmy is and will be quite good at remaining civil because the questionable content makers use their own instances and get defederated. The most edgy community federated with the main cluster I found is !funhole@lemmy.sdf.org. It features cryptic posts that presumably make sense if you engage in the decentralized (IRC? Telnet??) discourse channels of sdf.org and some appear to be pro-fascist depending on how you interpret the questionable veil of sarcasm. I don't think it's serious enough to consider defederation because the worst ones get massively downvoted anyway.
Yes. However, we need to solve the chicken-and-egg problem of niche communities. For example, there is no Czech community at all after both the czech-lemmy.eu and kyberpunk.social instances went down. It's only once the communities get going and start appearing in "All/Active" feeds that I'd worry about serious moderation.
I joined lemmy just over a year ago when reddit killed its API. I hoped that my favorite subreddit would come here too but it didn't so I wandered back to reddit. I was clinging to old.reddit.com and would probably have stayed around for as long as that lasted. But recently they began requiring email addresses. That was too much and here I am.
I hate the fact that reddit has so much valuable data in it, like thousands of extremely niche subreddits and answers to your questions.
I wish someone could just mirror it all
Actually, I found archiveteam's reddit dump. I think we can re-host this on activitypub, as a form of read-only, easy to browse archive.
The data is on archive.org is marked non-downloadable to limit traffic. I emailed archive.org requesting one of the 10GB pieces to experiment with. Fingers crossed
Hi Aesistril,
Thanks for contacting us.
If it is restricted it is not publicly available.
Thanks for using archive.org
Best, Internet Archive Team
I heard that they gave links when you emailed them but nah
Doing it all at once could be tough, but
one niche sub at a time maybe?*had. I deleted all my posts that I could find. I hope many others did the same. "Conveniently" these assholes limit how far back in your post history you can go, and beyond that I can no longer delete comments because I can't systematically browse them to edit in "Fuck reddit!". :/
Does old.reddit.com not work anymore ?
Wait, this makes it sound like you were doing it by hand? There's quite a few tools to do that for you, e.g. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
Over the last year I think I've dropped in about six times out of sheer habit, and each time I am driven away by the undeniable force of asshole design.
That's only on mobile browser mode. Open your browser settings and select Desktop site and you won't see that modal anymore.
Still an asshole design, though.
If you absolutely have to read something from reddit and it throws this, just switch to the desktop site instead of mobile.
And whenever they want to drop a site-wide ban for any reason, it's easier to punish the whole device instead of fixing issues or pretending that most of the ad viewership doesn't consist of bots.
Lemme apps are better now anyway, and no ads
I just posted to Reddit about my Twystlock gaming accessory release. Something free for everyone.
Most subreddits don't allow cross-posting, so I made 5 posts in total. 1 was taken down by mods. 3 were taken down by Reddit. Only r/Handhelds survived.
I don't use Reddit anymore in day to day, but I've had releases like Winapps sit at the top of r/Linux for days and never had these issues until more recently. Garbage.
And yes, before anyone asks, of course I posted to Lemmy first 😆
And yes, before anyone asks, of course I posted to Lemmy first 😆
Thanks 😄
Still don't understand why so many block cross posting.
They love to call it brigading
I cannot stress this enough: if you just want to browse reddit without interacting with anyone and supporting their greedy, stupid bullshit, I highly recommend RDX.
I can second this, it’s handy enough for the occasional check
Actually i prefer HMX explosives
Oh we are talking about an app?
I’m checking it out by your recommendation. I do post sometimes so I use Dystopia for that but oh it’s a horrendous UI. I suppose that’s why Spaz allowed it - and because it’s supposed to be for visually impaired.
Edit: doesn’t seem to offer anything substantial beyond Dystopia so I’m fine with Dystopia.
Second that. RDX now has both an iphone and Android app, but the web version works fairly well on mobile too.
Yup. They got so desperate for money they first screwed developers with the API change and now they’re going to push this more and more. My expectation is they’re going to slowly move toward forcing usage of the official app or absolutely nothing else.
Spaz is desperate for ad money. I’m only in a few subs that have no Lemmy equivalent yet, but otherwise I’ve ditched reddit like the steaming pile of shit that it’s become.
Havent tried for a while, but you used to be able to change the url to
to bypass these shitty “use our app instead”. You don’t get mobile view but you can at least see it
the "new" design is pretty much unusable on desktop too, imo. IF I absolutely must visit reddit, old.reddit it is.
On mobile you can use RedReader. When reddit revoked access to its API, it made an exception for RedReader, because that app supports certain accessibility features which are "not yet" (i.e. never will be) supported by the official reddit app. So if you still want to access reddit on mobile, use RedReader, it has no ads and is much less irritating than the official reddit app.
There's also firefox extension that does just that, in case you forget.
Reddit, Twitter. I don't understand why they are putting so much effort into making sure that people can't use them comfortably. I always thought there should be as few barriers for the user as possible, otherwise they might drop out. Are these platforms more concerned about selling data for LLMs now?
They want to force people to use the app so they can steal their data easier. That's my guess lol.
👩🚀🔫🧑🚀
Fascists want to control or shut down hubs of anti-fascist discourse/organization.
Tiktok too.
It's funny because Ukrainian war videos are put into the main feed, and you can watch the videos. But when you click the title to read the comments it asks you to login for sensitive content.
It's such a shitty, buggy and slow website.
Try clicking the comment number link, not the title link. I don't understand the difference, but it sometimes it changes things.
I am a lazy prick, so I'm just now using Power Delete Suite to mass edit my stuff on reddit to promote lemmy.
I've heard a fair number of people say Reddit looks for and rolls back mass delete/edits like these. Not sure how true it is.
It did for me, like once or twice. Just running the script again worked though.
Don’t delete your account, go back and mass change your posts and comments to AI generated gibberish.
It poisons their communities and will make it harder for Reddit from monetizing their content for Learned Language models for AI or for search.
Oldlander extension for Firefox. Works great.
lmao, what was the subreddit?
I hit it when visiting the rdx subreddit, but it happens to pretty much all new, small subs
lol, that sucks
for browsing, there's reddit viewer.
https://reddit-viewer.com/r/lifehacks?sort=hot
just choose the sub and go.
no search functionality yet, unfortunately, which i assume lots of people would find useful, but skipping login is very nice.
Why did you have to delete it twice? Once did it for me (kidding) But back when reddit was cute (long long ago) they had this thing where they’d ask “are you sure” a lot of times and switch buttons and stuff to trick you (in a playful way) I liked it back then
On iOS I use Sink it for reddit to get around this
Tiktok does something like this (yeah i get alot of tiktoks from some of my friends)
Protip:download telegram and use vid downloader bots to save videos
there is also snaptik
I always download videos to share over Signal.
I hate opening links to view shit.
Plus, I sleep better knowing this is what it takes to get into heaven. (Along with returning your shopping cart).
For me I get them through discord (Yeah I use discord to talk with my friends and i cant just quit and leave the app)
I've heard rumours that of you change your agent string in your browser you can get past this, tho not tested yet.
I use Dystopia for the occasional usage of Reddit out of necessity. One day once there are federated groups for all I need, I’m ditching Reddit entirely forever.
Funny how they don't even pretend there's any logic to it. If you can view it in the app, then the content has been reviewed after all...? Clearly just a way to enforce app usage.
They don't say it, but you can also go to old.reddit and there's none of those stupid warnings.
Still blocks my vpn though
They want ad revenue and the app is the only place they can be confident you’re not blocking.