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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.

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 ,
@Malix@sopuli.xyz avatar

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.

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We’re expecting a giant influx of users when the popular workaround, old.reddit.com (perhaps with RES to make it less outdated), inevitably gets shut down.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

Blaze ,

Feddit.org is quite active

Jlai.lu has 600 monthly active users on the main community

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.

lightnsfw ,

My account still works without an email address.

wazoobonkerbrain ,

Well that’s not fair.

lightnsfw ,

How are you seeing that an email is required? Is it when you try to post something? My account is banned so I just us it to lurk but I can still log in.

wazoobonkerbrain ,

My account is banned. I can still log in and lurk, but not post, upvote, etc. And, as I already said: When I log in to the main site, it says “account permanently banned”. When I log in to old reddit, it says “provide an email to reactivate your account”.

TheBat ,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Reddit is already rate-limiting old.reddit.com traffic. There are already few threads about it.

lung ,
@lung@lemmy.world avatar

Lemme apps are better now anyway, and no ads

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.

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.

Crashumbc ,

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.

jbk ,

It did for me, like once or twice. Just running the script again worked though.

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.

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.

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.

abobla ,

lmao, what was the subreddit?

CannonGoBoom ,
@CannonGoBoom@lemmy.world avatar

On iOS I use Sink it for reddit to get around this

p5yk0t1km1r4ge ,
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

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.

fmstrat ,

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.

fmstrat ,

And yes, before anyone asks, of course I posted to Lemmy first 😆

Blaze ,

Thanks 😄

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