Cool, it's like https://nitter.net/ (alternate Twitter frontend) but for Reddit. Seems very slow though, not sure if it got the HN-hug of death.
Oh my, thank you for letting me know about nitter. It looks fantastic and even offers RSS!
Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
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#182Instantly 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.
Reddit links and comments can be edited by the admins so no trust can be put there either
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#183Earlier 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 feels to me like Reddit is only good for hobby or niche interests you might have. The main subreddits and politics are what make Reddit the shittiest. But if you stay away from these it’s ok.
You are exactly right about the hobby and niche interests. On the other hand, the larger subreddits that represent groups of people (such as a city, sports team, university, etc.) will have that echo chamber effect.
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#184There'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.
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.
It’s the exact political opposite of Reddit. Which makes sense, I guess.
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#185No cruft, no cdn domains and no javascript . I gave up on reddit a couple years back, but this might make me rethink. With so many things turning to mud, this is a good thing. What I cannot figure out is how they do the [-] show/hide stuff without javascript? Even hacker news - which is relatively lightweight - uses javascript for that. EDIT: ...and I'm back. It's like eating a box of candy for dinner - sugar rush an…
You can conditionally style elements based on an input checkbox's `checked` state. A label element can also toggle an input checkbox's `checked state`, but contain whatever HTML you want. Put the two together and you can do interactive elements without JS: ``` Some DOM ``` ``` label::after{ display: block; content: '[+]'; } #input, .toggle-content { display: none; } #input:checked + label::after { content: '[-]'; } #…
That's nice! But I've been using CSS for 2 decades, how did I not know this?!
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#186Isn't Reddit now a Chinese surveillance of Western culture and a gateway for their propaganda? I feel that a good chunk of the platform has been infiltrated by people pushing Marxism and downvoting any other view.
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#187If only it was able to support ?limit=500 for subreddits and threads
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#188Hopefully someone will create a "redirect Reddit to Teddit" Firefox extension sometime soon :)
...similar to the "Old Reddit Redirect" extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#189There'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.
Scott Alexander in one of the essays said it right. He did look at Voat as an example when he did. His quote (from point III)
> if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong
[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...
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#190This is without question the most
Teddit post I have I have ever read