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Is anyone else beginning to mourn reddit? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've never been sentimental about a social media site but it's sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It's just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.

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

How does that work exactly? I’m still interested in Reddit for my sports subs like F1 to follow comments during live races. Does RSS work well as an alternative?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think RSS would work for that (it only seems to pull the content for the post itself, not the comments), but I've always used reddit-stream.com/ for live comments 😊 you can just take any link to a live thread (e.g. https://reddit.com/comments/145upmt/) and replace 'reddit' with 'reddit-stream' in the URL. It shows a live (updates every few seconds) feed of comments, and you can still comment if you link your reddit account.

That way you're still not on the reddit site or giving them ad traffic, and it's also a lot nicer to use as a bonus! I'd still prefer a fediverse alternative but it could be a good option for now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That’s awesome I’ll have to check that out. Thanks!