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[–] [email protected] 162 points 11 months ago (5 children)

THEN WHY ARE YOU STILL USING REDDIT?!

[–] [email protected] 74 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And worse of all, using the official Reddit client... ugh...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Are there still any other options?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Old.reddit on browser. Or redreader

I personally use rdx.overdevs.com. It's UI is absolutely fantastic. It's read-only, but that's perfect because I've resolved to never post there again

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you like read-only, can I recommend Stealth?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

oh cool, i didn't know about it! Is there a way to customise your feed and subscribe to certain subs in Stealth?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, you can subscribe to subs but the process is a little painful. Especially if you have a bunch. And there's no backup option that I can tell.

Can install via F-Droid or Obtanium. It's also really nice-looking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

thank you, @[email protected], you've been very helpful. Very open (some might say gaping) with your information :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you are using old reddit, might I suggest Old Lander script via Tampermonkey / Greasemonkey ? It made old reddit terrific for me (terrific = user friendly beyond any app)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Old Lander

ooh where do i find this? Is it in the tampermonkey extension already, or do I have to import it from somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's not inbuilt in the TamperMonkey, but if you have TM installed in your browser (I use firefox) - then you can head to GitHub and install the js from there (scroll to the bottom of the GitHub page)

https://github.com/OctoNezd/oldlander

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Revanced 3rd party apps

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Relay. Still working until dev launches the paid version afaik.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It's launched now :( sad day when I had to uninstall

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Redreader still works due to the disability exemption.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Redreader was my favourite app... I ended up giving it up for Lemmy fully in July anyway.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I use it because there are two communities I still want to see, one is a kebble sub, and the other has torrents which are easier to find than going to a torrent site.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was part of several kebble subs, but when the APIcalypse happened, I decided it was time to let go of all of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How did you manage to get into many? I'm in the one with Kebble in it, but I've never even been invited to any others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I left comments in a variety of subs, and a few of them appear to be popular among kebble sub owners. Actually there’s this one particularly unhinged guy who makes way too many kebble subs. He goes by many names, most of which have been banned from Reddit. Anyway, when he wants yo run another one of his twisted experiments, he pulls from the same subs, and I got dragged in more than once.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Interesting. The one I'm in pulls from /r/all.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Then you’d better not be complaining. Otherwise, this is already past the point of using a system while taking part in it hypocrisy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can complain about the direction something is going while continuing to use it. FWIW I still use old Reddit in a browser and will probably leave if that stops working.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

That’s misconstruing that concept. You can but the point of that argument is that you complain to the people who can change it not to the people that left the system.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Because lemmy isn’t nearly as large as reddit and most of the communities I’m in are barely (if at all) active on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Be the change you want to see in the world. I loved r/writingprompts, and the one on Lemmy is practically dead except for me posting a prompt about every day or so. I've been tossing memes from my collection into different communities just to get content out there too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

He is obviously using both reddit and lemmy. Just because he stops using reddit it wont make the topics he follows on lemmy magically active.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In other words, “I’m not willing to inconvenience myself even in the slightest to stand by the principles I claim to hold”. You want to have your cake and eat it too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, in other words I still like participating in communities for games, shows, and other topics that I like and there isn’t an alternative to reddit to fulfill my wants. Reddit won’t care if I stop using it, they’ll still make their money from the 99% of users (or more) who don’t care. I’d love to use lemmy more but a social platform doesn’t work for me if I can’t find people I want to socialize with.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In other words, “I’m not willing to inconvenience myself even in the slightest to stand by the principles I claim to hold”.

If everyone does what you do, no one leaves Reddit and they don’t learn their lesson. You can’t keep rewarding this bullshit so they get paid and then act surprised when they pull exactly the same shit. At some point, the blame is on you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Most of their moneymakers are casual internet users who don’t care about any of this stuff and would only stop using reddit of it literally became unusable. If everyone who would be willing to use Lemmy stopped using reddit permanently right now they still wouldn’t care and would have plenty of users left.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That’s irrelevant. No one cares if Reddit cares right now. They start caring when it affects their bottom line and, as we’re already seeing, bot accounts and reposts that have taken over are hurting their bottom dollar because people aren’t seeing the ads. If you’re still going there, you’re helping them get paid.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

If your idea of fun is constantly complaining about something that you supposedly moved away from because it was terrible, please post any events or parties you may be attending to this comment so that we may all avoid them.