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Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
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Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#212Privacy focused? This unknown site is proxy-Ing all requests too/from Reddit. Who knows what (if anything ) they are doing with that information.
Surprised not to see this comment 12 hours and 200 comments layer.
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#213Privacy focused? This unknown site is proxy-Ing all requests too/from Reddit. Who knows what (if anything ) they are doing with that information. Surprised not to see this comment 12 hours and 200 comments layer.
Oof.
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#214No 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…
Biggest problem with Reddit is the giant echo chamber. Feels a lot like twitter. Super aggressive replies if you’re against the grain.
Tried this Teddit out, and was suitably impressed. Good job.
It's a shame I no longer visit Reddit, as most popular subs just fall into the echo chambers. I find IRC still pretty good for the technical conversations, and there are the odd old skool forums that are active.
Perhaps reddits success will be it's downfall?
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yes, non major subs are ok, also it's shifting toward annoying too. 2020 is not helping. My new social network is called the woods.
Hah as an introvert I can totally agree with this
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#216reddit has become overrun by their moderators and staff. reddit went from open discourse to pushing reddit staff agendas, not to mention the erasing of Aaron Schwartz. The overall state of the site is just sad. I'm eager to see what replaces it next.
Schwartz didn't really have anything to do with the founding of Reddit.
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"... no javascript." This is why I hang around on HN. Only place I know where I can find other people who agree that today's use of Javascript, 9 times out of 10, amounts to a nusiance. The show/hide design pattern is annoying, IMO. Should be an accessibility violation; cannot tab through it. I guess thats why I use a text-only browser. Avoids all the Javscript nonsense, not to mention the next CSS trick du jour.
The irony of complaining about one echo chamber and enjoying living in the 'no javascript' bubble is astounding. Can you use text-only websites for most use cases? Sure. Are people more likely to pay for your product if your website has client-sided interactivity and doesn't look awful? Absolutely. I really don't get this complain and I've only seen it from developers. Certainly not company owners for pay for server/…
Are you sure it's not just that developers understand how the web works and know there's an alternative?
Most normies have no clue what JavaScript is
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#218Privacy focused? This unknown site is proxy-Ing all requests too/from Reddit. Who knows what (if anything ) they are doing with that information. Surprised not to see this comment 12 hours and 200 comments layer.
True. But there is no other way to call the Reddit API safely without proxying it through.
I have had a very similar idea for sometime and even thought of adding a prompt optionally to get the Reddit api key from the user and store it in localstorage and use it from the browser. But never got around to doing it.
This is almost similar and the code is open source anyway. So you can run your own instance just replacing the API key. This is what I’m planning to do.
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
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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 s…
Scott Adams when talking to Sam Harris said there is "two movies on one screen".
I consider myself a "center-right liberatarian", however when doing political compass tests I come out right in the middle of the quad. I frequently try to _steelman_ the opposition.
So lets go through your examples:
> * 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".
The Stonetoss comics I've seen pretty racist and usually contain anti-semetic tropes. So I will give you that one. No argument from me there.
> * A comic caricaturing an asexual person who decries Christmas but celbrates a silly celebration of their own, supposed to show hypocrisy
There is a lot of people even on the left that believe a lot of people have replaced traditional religion with some other form of spirituality. Usually this person proclaims themselves to be an athiest and laments about traditional religion while claiming to be. It is a trope, but there I've certainly seen it and it is somewhat of a hypocrital position.
So I don't see anything particularly wrong with this based on your description.
> * 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""
The person that posted it could be racist. However to give someone the benefit of the doubt from your description this is commenting on the perceived hypocrisy. Karen means "entitled white woman" and I've seen it used as an insult (to deflect from the actual issue) to a white women making a valid complaint about someone behaviour (and that person happened to be black woman).
> * 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)
A lot of people are suffering due to the corona virus lockdown. My grandmother's dementia has gotten worse because visits to her are very restricted due to the lockdown and it been very upsetting to my mother.
So out of the four examples you have given. Only one I would find objectionable based on your description. Whereas you have found 3 that are objectionable.
> 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.
I find most of the content of the front page on reddit trite. It is full on worn out pop culture references, consumer culture nonsense, cute animals, strawmanning right wing politics and ideas and other crap that I am not interested in.
As for "reductionist memes a 14 year old might find funny", most of the people that spend a lot of time online on these sites are younger. I've noticed as someone that is almost forty is that a lot of this is younger guys blowing off steam online because they are frustrated by their circumstances.