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The whole web feels like a hostile user experience these days. Every site you visit you must... - figure out how to disagree to ad tracking (Sometimes imposible if you want to use the site) - decline cookies - decline to receive their newsletter - Decline to download their app - decline to receive notifications. It’s painful and ridiculous.
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An alternative to Reddit? It's a monopoly. Where are you going to go? Voat? They can be as horrible to their users as they want. As long as they have cat pictures on the front page, nobody cares enough to change anything. I think we're all getting exactly what is deserved by collectively allowing a monopoly to form. (I'm not suggesting there should be legal action. I'm saying, by the laws of exponential curves and po…
It's really not a monopoly. Just the most popular service. Yes, it's currently better than the competition for some communities, but it really doesn't mean the competition doesn't exist or can't form.
Reddit is the Nth most popular site in the world. (I'm not exactly sure what N is, but it's pretty small.) Whatever the competition is, it hardly registers on the radar.
This has some negative consequences for their logged in users too. For example, many small shops and restaurants seem to use Instagram instead of a traditional website. I wonder if they are aware that plenty of people can’t see their menus etc?
I find Dribbble’s wall especially ironic. For the longest time it would be hard to get a Dribbble account - you had to know someone with an invite. And now they refuse to even tell you who designed which image unless you create an account. (Isn’t that rather problematic from a copyright perspective?)
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Reddit is one of a few websites that I feel dedicated app works much better than browser, but I use 3rd party one(s).
I don't agree, for one b/c Reddit is a links aggregator and opening links works best in a full browser instead of a shitty in-app web view, plus it's the little things like ability to copy/paste or go back to a previous page, that are sometimes emulated in native apps, but never work well. But even if you think Reddit works better in a native app for you, that's by design. Reddit is making the web experience shitty o…
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> Instagram only allows you to see a portion of a user's photos before forcing you to login. It does this on both mobile and browser. For the curious, adblockers can get rid of the annoying pop-ups.
I just tried, and I can only use my adblocker to block the element that requests I login. My scrolling is still stopped, and I can't see anymore of a user's photos. Am I missing something?
I use all of uBlock origin's annoyance filters and it works for me.
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How about Snew?[0] I see TFA.[1] So maybe everything. But I guess that replies aren't implemented :( > Snew is an open-source parody client for reddit. > It is a client forked from the reddit source code that runs entirely in your browser. > Snew attempts to undo reddit's pervasive censorship > Content is pulled directly from the reddit api and pushshift.io 0) https://snew.notabug.io/r/all/ 1) https://snew.notabug.io…
Hmm, you mean notabug? https://notabug.io/ Interesting. Seems active too. There's also tildes: https://tildes.net/ (I tried googling them and they're nowhere to be found. Ironically /r/tildes popped up before the actual site did.) And lobsters: https://lobste.rs/
It just gives you ~everything that got posted to Reddit.
Which is very useful for research purposes. And it fixes another Reddit defect, wherein it won't display full comment history, unless you're logged in.
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How about Snew?[0] I see TFA.[1] So maybe everything. But I guess that replies aren't implemented :( > Snew is an open-source parody client for reddit. > It is a client forked from the reddit source code that runs entirely in your browser. > Snew attempts to undo reddit's pervasive censorship > Content is pulled directly from the reddit api and pushshift.io 0) https://snew.notabug.io/r/all/ 1) https://snew.notabug.io…
Hmm, you mean notabug? https://notabug.io/ Interesting. Seems active too. There's also tildes: https://tildes.net/ (I tried googling them and they're nowhere to be found. Ironically /r/tildes popped up before the actual site did.) And lobsters: https://lobste.rs/
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How about Snew?[0] I see TFA.[1] So maybe everything. But I guess that replies aren't implemented :( > Snew is an open-source parody client for reddit. > It is a client forked from the reddit source code that runs entirely in your browser. > Snew attempts to undo reddit's pervasive censorship > Content is pulled directly from the reddit api and pushshift.io 0) https://snew.notabug.io/r/all/ 1) https://snew.notabug.io…
Hmm, you mean notabug? https://notabug.io/ Interesting. Seems active too. There's also tildes: https://tildes.net/ (I tried googling them and they're nowhere to be found. Ironically /r/tildes popped up before the actual site did.) And lobsters: https://lobste.rs/
notabug.io is a decentralized Reddit alternative that uses open source html/css from Reddit but whole new backend.
Snew.notabug.io is an anti censorship Reddit client that also uses open source html/css from Reddit but uses Reddit’s APIs and pushshift.io"
- go1dfish (admin of both)
https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/qs5/saidit_is_now_the_s...
What a strange thing to be this user hostile. When stuff like this happens, people look for alternatives, and even if they don’t switch immediately, this really erodes any loyalty they have to your brand/service. I think Facebook is experiencing a similar thing. A frustrating amount of my network has quit, which makes planning events more difficult (and is frustrating). The difference for Facebook is that they have e…
An alternative to Reddit? It's a monopoly. Where are you going to go? Voat? They can be as horrible to their users as they want. As long as they have cat pictures on the front page, nobody cares enough to change anything. I think we're all getting exactly what is deserved by collectively allowing a monopoly to form. (I'm not suggesting there should be legal action. I'm saying, by the laws of exponential curves and po…