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

#131

How can it be privacy focused if it is terminating my TLS connection to Reddit? Your Reddit browsing patterns are just going to accumulate at Teddit. Given the increased importance of things like /r/wallstreetbets, this data could be pretty valuable.

It could be privacy focused by not accumulating that data.

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

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post #131

How can it be privacy focused if it is terminating my TLS connection to Reddit? Your Reddit browsing patterns are just going to accumulate at Teddit. Given the increased importance of things like /r/wallstreetbets, this data could be pretty valuable.

It could be privacy focused by not accumulating that data.

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

#134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Biggest problem with Reddit is the giant echo chamber. Feels a lot like twitter. Super aggressive replies if you’re against the grain.

It depends a lot on the subreddit. Different subreddits can have different echo chambers.

That's my experience. The subreddits I tend to frequent are pretty well behaved, and I generally have a good time.

But I've had friends who insist it's a massive shit show deserving of being blocked at the router (for at least one guy).

Same can be said with Twitter, or any social network. It's all about the company you choose to keep.

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

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post #131

How can it be privacy focused if it is terminating my TLS connection to Reddit? Your Reddit browsing patterns are just going to accumulate at Teddit. Given the increased importance of things like /r/wallstreetbets, this data could be pretty valuable.

It could be privacy focused by not accumulating that data.

Is there some reason I should believe they won't when it is clearly in their interest to do so?

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

#136
post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

matrix is for live chat. you want saidit which is an open source fork of reddit's open source code that stopped in 2017.

A great alternative on reddit, or rather reddit became an alternative to it, is Usenet. It really sucks that NNTP is disappearing and no longer being provided by ISPs.

Didn't scale well. Largely unmoderated so filled with illegal content. Nobody wants to deal with it without getting paid for it somehow.

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

#137
How to you browse reddit comments when there is a "load more comments" every other line? Granted this works better than how real reddit does it.

For the real reddit I've just assumed that they deliberately made it unusable to force you to create an account.

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

#138

Instantly made a Reddit -> Teddit redictor[1] rule! [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/redirector/

That sounds like a foolish thing to do. Teddit terminates your TLS connection to Reddit, and all you have is their promise to not use that position of power.

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

#139
Would probably switch in a heartbeat if I could expand the posts without opening a new tab. How difficult would it be to port Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) to this? Or is there some browser extension that lets me accomplish roughly the same thing?

I think I'm one of many people who spends most of their time lurking anyway.

Might still give it a go...if I wouldn't browse reddit as much with the added friction of opening links to view posts, maybe I shouldn't browse reddit as much anyway.

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.

Check Alien Blue on the iOS
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