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Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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eg: voat vs reddit when reddit started banning objectionable subs edit: it is even more true than I thought. Look at the homepage of https://voat.co at your own risk.

Ruqqus doesn’t seem as bad though https://ruqqus.com/

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Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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post #5

There's a weird paradox... I believe in privacy/free speech/etc, however any social media targeted at those usecases tend to be a cesspool of horribleness.

It’s an alternative interface to Reddit, not a new site with different moderation rules.

A news aggregator aggregator.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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post #60

Wait, I just realized after 15 minutes browsing this website that I'm not using VPN. Reddit is blocked in my country, so Teddit will be the replacement for me. I like browsing Reddit without an account, just to read something. But I don't want to install their super big mobile app (1GB+), and I hate their lagging and weird website on mobile.

Sure enough, the little information popup (activated via the "i" in the top-right) has this information:

> All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Reddit

> Prevents Reddit from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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post #60

Wait, I just realized after 15 minutes browsing this website that I'm not using VPN. Reddit is blocked in my country, so Teddit will be the replacement for me. I like browsing Reddit without an account, just to read something. But I don't want to install their super big mobile app (1GB+), and I hate their lagging and weird website on mobile.

Whoa, their app is 1GB+? Why on Earth is it so large? After all of their horrible, annoying, devious and deceitful ways that they've tried to get me to install the app when trying to browse their mobile site I will never ever install that app and this is just another good reason not to.

... What? I've never downloaded it myself (for the same reasons as you), but that doesn't sound true. Play Store says it's 39MB. But maybe OP has that much in media in the app's cache or something.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

#75
post #66

Is there a way to get my list of subscriptions from Reddit? Or to set up a list of preferred subs?

While logged in on Reddit, go to this page: https://old.reddit.com/subreddits, then copy the url from the "multireddit of your subscriptions" link in the sidebar to the right, replace the "old.reddit.com" in it with "teddit.net", and bookmark that.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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post #63

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They can post it somewhere with standards of evidence if they want to be taken seriously. Why waste time looking into it on the off chance it has more veracity than everything around it?

The logic around these election fraud posts usually goes something like this:

1. something "suspicious" is presented

2. only conclusion must be election fraud, no explanations to the contrary is explored or accepted

3. go to step 1, preferably before the "MSM" debunks the first instance.

You can try this yourself: try to find any election fraud claim from 2+ weeks ago that turned out to be "legit".

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

#77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

eg: voat vs reddit when reddit started banning objectionable subs edit: it is even more true than I thought. Look at the homepage of https://voat.co at your own risk.

Ruqqus doesn’t seem as bad though https://ruqqus.com/

To me it seems worse. Let's see here, the first 10 things on the page are all political, and right-wing or extreme libertarian memes:

* A stonetoss comic about the relationship between race and IQ. This was the top post on the page. It was posted by a user with the username "NationalSocialism".

* A comic caricaturing an asexual person who decries Christmas but celbrates a silly celebration of their own, supposed to show hypocrisy

* A comic showing a caricature of a fat black woman shouting in a white woman's face, and the white woman pushing her away. The title is "At this point if a White woman looks at a Black wrong she is a "karen""

* A post from the "Controlavirus" sub-forum, arguing that lockdowns mean life has lost its color. (One of the only non-caricature comic and reasonable posts I could see on the front page)

Even on a bad day, load up the Reddit front page and it's nothing like this, even if you were to browse for hours, you wouldn't see an endless stream of reductionist memes a 14 year old might find funny.

Reddit is a worse version of HN for nuanced and well-argued discussion. Ruqquus seems to be a caricature meme sharing board, and even one which lacks even the pretense of a varied userbase. At least Reddit pretends. When I visit a site that's supposed to be better than Voat, I don't expect to be greeted with the exact same thing but with more memes and less news sources.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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The Republican Secretary of State and his officials says there’s nothing unusual about the video in question. So, is the presumption now a vast conspiracy involving democrats and republicans to turn the election for Biden?

I don't know, this is the first I'm hearing of it. After reading your comment and looking that up, apparently others are saying all of that is normal.

(Sorry, I didn't mean to make this a political thread.)

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

#79
If you're looking for a low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit or Twitter that's focused on live conversation, check out https://sqwok.im

Disclaimer I am building it.

Key Points:

- Minimalist design with focus on readability & usability.

- Real-time messaging meets news aggregator - All posts have a built-in chat room including presence, typing activity, etc.

- Fast, open, simple - Anyone can view posts simply by opening the url, minimal click to start talking. Create sharable chat rooms on the fly essentially

- Follow other users in real time & join them in conversation.

- No voting - Relevance is based on chat activity and excluded voting entirely.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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post #75
post #66

Is there a way to get my list of subscriptions from Reddit? Or to set up a list of preferred subs?

While logged in on Reddit, go to this page: https://old.reddit.com/subreddits , then copy the url from the "multireddit of your subscriptions" link in the sidebar to the right, replace the "old.reddit.com" in it with "teddit.net", and bookmark that.

Thank you, that worked. Plus on that multi-teddit page is a convenient table of each sub sorted by name, so one can open it e.g. in a tab.
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