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abobla ,

lmao, what was the subreddit?

Wrench ,

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.

Varyk , (edited )

for browsing, there’s reddit viewer.

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.

Cooljimy84 ,
@Cooljimy84@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve heard rumours that of you change your agent string in your browser you can get past this, tho not tested yet.

rustyfish ,
@rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

I am a lazy prick, so I’m just now using Power Delete Suite to mass edit my stuff on reddit to promote lemmy.

Feel free to do that too.

Bonifratz ,

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.

lung ,
@lung@lemmy.world avatar

Lemme apps are better now anyway, and no ads

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

We’re expecting a giant influx of users when the popular workaround, old.reddit.com (perhaps with RES to make it less outdated), inevitably gets shut down.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!

Lemminary ,

And please actively remind people to remain civil. We can be better than Reddit in so many ways. I believe!

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

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.

ngwoo ,

It’s a tough position to be in for non-English and regional communities. For something like a game you can cross post in both a general videogames community and a more specific one and help people find it, but there’s not much of an option for any sort of non-English non-pop culture topic.

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

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. 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.

Gullible ,

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.

ngwoo ,

They won’t even notice anything changed

wazoobonkerbrain ,

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.

breadsmasher ,
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

Havent tried for a while, but you used to be able to change the url to

old.reddit.com/r/……

to bypass these shitty “use our app instead”. You don’t get mobile view but you can at least see it

Malix ,
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the “new” design is pretty much unusable on desktop too, imo. IF I absolutely must visit reddit, old.reddit it is.

JeeBaiChow ,

There’s also firefox extension that does just that, in case you forget.

wazoobonkerbrain ,

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.

Gradually_Adjusting ,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

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.

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