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Post by y-c-o-m-b »

pantalaimon wrote: post #261
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #223

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For reddit, IMO the simplest things you can do to improve the experience is to force the old reddit design (old.reddit.com) when on desktop, and use any app except the official app when on mobile.

The old mobile interface (i.reddit.com) works well too

That's the one I use. The downside is you can't see pictures or gifs in comments nor the rules of a sub-reddit if you want to submit something. Also submit doesn't work correctly sometimes, especially when you need to tag a submission with flair.

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Post by feanaro »

powvans wrote: post #344
arsome wrote: post #230

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You can try, but you won't succeed against a dedicated reverse engineer, simply dropping a hook in on the API calls would be enough to grab the decrypted key in a case like that, if not simply statically reading the encryption keys and decrypting it. That's not to say it's useless - some reversers will simply move on to the next app when there's a list of dozens. You can also send requests via your own server, which…

Mobile developers can implement certificate pinning to prevent man in the middle snooping. Twitter's app does this.

I hope you did not just assume that general purpose computing and device ownership can be subverted by mere certificate pinning.

If it's executing on my device, you can be sure I can poke it and see what it's doing.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by Qub3d »

Can_Not wrote: post #275
splatcollision wrote: post #231

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It would be great if the community here just started downvoting stories that are twitter links. If it's not worth a blog post somewhere, why should we care?

Twitter threads are a confusing mess to look at and usually I can't figure out OP was trying to convey by posting a link to 30 tweets that probably should have been a text post somewhere.

I just gave up railing against it and run it through threader.app or threadreaderapp.com.

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Post by thereddaikon »

bityard wrote: post #268
f0e4c2f7 wrote: post #67

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I almost hesitate to share these because I too found that Reddit's dark patterns were a large part of what helped me break that habit. I recently discovered teddit.net which is a frontend for reddit with all dark patterns removed. There is also an alternative front end for twitter called nitter.net that you can use the same way to avoid the app / login.

Android has a client called RedReader that makes Reddit highly tolerable: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/ Part of me wishes there was something as nice as this for the desktop, the other part of me thinks I already waste too much time on Reddit. (The signal-to-noise ratio is just largely not worth it compared to my hand-curated list of blogs I follow via RSS.)

I second red reader. To you SNR point, I think that is entirely due to the communities you join and how you manage it. Unsub from all of the default subs. They are all garbage. And any that gets beyond a certain size will inevitably fall to low effort reposts and click bait.

Reddit is best as a platform for effortlessly making focused special interest forums. In the past these would have required a PHBB instance and hosting, would have nonexistent SEO and would be almost impossible to find. But they would have some of the best content the internet had to offer.

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Post by BitwiseFool »

selfhoster11 wrote: post #304
BitwiseFool wrote: post #149

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The sooner reddit dies the better. What a toxic and manipulated hellhole it has become.

For larger subs, yeah. For smaller, specialised topical subs, I will defend them until Reddit forces a similar requirement as Twitter here.

I used to feel the same way, but even the smaller ones are increasingly being co-opted by partisan screechers. Especially in the State/City/Town subreddits.

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Post by pier25 »

system2 wrote: post #20
Theizestooke wrote: post #11

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I'm using old.reddit.com, and it's ok. Shame if they would turn that off though.

The day they turn off old.reddit.com reddit is dead to me. I've been on reddit 10 years and it was hard to understand why they chose this new disastrous design.

Same.

old.reddit.com + RES is still the best Reddit.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by LeoPanthera »

sbagel wrote: post #197
wildpeaks wrote: post #64

On top of it, it's not just a matter of creating an account because they get blocked within two minutes until you also give them your phone number, despite the registration pretends it's not required (because once you signed up, it's easier to trick people into giving up yet more information than asking for it upfront).

unless they've changed their policy on this you can email support and say you don't have a phone number and they'll re-active your account, has worked for me in the past.

While this works, I still hate the lie that they have suspended your account for "suspicious activity".

If you're going to require a phone number to read tweets, don't lie about it, just be up front about it.

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Post by turminal »

root_axis wrote: post #389
turminal wrote: post #337

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Comparing protocols like that is comparing apples to oranges, but I think I see your point. When people say 'I miss IRC', they don't necessarily mean the technicalities of the protocol though.

It's not apples to oranges, it's directly analogous: both represent federated networks on the internet where users have the freedom to decide which client they want to use and which servers they want to connect to.

They are not analogous. IRC is a chat protocol with semantics suitable for a chat protocol. HTTP is at this point just a transport level thing for whatever you want to send. It doesn't have any significant semantic implications for sites like Twitter.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by [deleted] »

mikro2nd wrote: post #317
ZWoz wrote: post #210

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I have noticed that most those services (twitter, Skype and so on) block login without giving phone number...until few months later they automatically unblock. I simply check out in every week, are they removed block or not. Once I was stupid and gave phone number one of those kind services, that was bad idea. Account went into some weird state after giving code received from SMS. So my personal experience: wait, nev…

That's odd. I've never given Twitter a phone no. (Granted my account predates their phone no. fetish.) Still use Twitter daily without any issue. Perhaps it's because I'm still logged in and not trying to re-login?

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