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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by patrickk »

NotPractical wrote: post #512
geuis wrote: post #425

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Same. I only use old mode for both mobile and desktop. It’s super annoying that about once a week they drop me back into their utterly awful mobile web experience. Then have to go back to settings and choose request desktop site yet again. Most recently they’ve switched image galleries to using their new desktop design, so simply trying to view images often pops up this new and totally incompatible experience. Earlie…

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect

Alternatively as a User script:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/40897-old-reddit-please

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by jpe-210 »

So long as they keep the API available for apps like Apollo then I'm fine. Honestly that's the only way I browse Reddit now, but I can't help but feel weird when the only way to enjoy a site is to use something else entirely to view its content.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by andybak »

ungamedplayer wrote: post #409
jonny_eh wrote: post #385

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> Reddit is the ONLY place on the Internet where you can simultaneously watch garbage recycled content from TikTok and visit extremely-niche and highly knowledgeable communities in the same session. Sounds similar to Twitter and YouTube.

I have yet to find any quality content on twitter.

Twitter really depends on who you follow. I've no idea how I got to the point where I have an interesting feed and attempts to follow the same process on Instagram have so far failed.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by jpe-210 »

jdgoesmarching wrote: post #426
pithon wrote: post #335

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I only last as long there as old.reddit.com does.

I last as long as the APIs allow Apollo to be amazing.

Anyone on an iOS device using Reddit that doesn't have this application is missing out.

I've said it before, but old.reddit.com and Apollo are the only methods I use to browse the site. If either dies or the API becomes private/non-existent then I'm out.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by Levitz »

Ilverin wrote: post #262
briga wrote: post #236

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> some percentage of the userbase will always run aggressive ad blockers and be impossible to effectvely monetize Can’t block ads when they’re disguised as user content. Viral marketers have had a heyday hawking their products on Reddit

But do those marketers pay reddit?

Admins? Don't know. Some moderators? I have no doubt.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by rapnie »

ephbit wrote: post #478
raffomania wrote: post #450

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I've been following lemmy [0] for a while, a federated reddit alternative in the same spirit as mastodon. It's still very small, but I think as monetization pressure on reddit increases, people will look for other places to post and this might be one of them :) edit: add the link [0] https://join-lemmy.org/

Their website mentions the Fediverse. lemmy is a federated network that is completely separate from the mastodon/diaspora/... network, right? Since I already have an account on a mastodon instance I first thought I can just connect to lemmy instances using that but that is apparently not possible.

Yes, you can. After their last release you can follow Lemmy communities with Mastodon and add comments to posts. Just enter the URL of a Lemmy community in your search bar to find the account profile. And in case that doesn't work you might try search for @[CommunityName]@[lemmy.instance] (there are some issues to be wrinkled out still).

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by LewisVerstappen »

iosonofuturista wrote: post #455
raxxorrax wrote: post #438

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> Anecdotally, a VERY LARGE percentage of my Google searches end in “site:reddit.com” these days. Compared to platforms like Discord they have the advantage that their content is actually discoverable by search engines. I hate the push to Discord since that basically makes you invisible. I get that it is convenient, but it has a lot of negative side effects that aren't obvious at first.

Which also one of the reasons I loathe the move from open BB forums to Facebook on the niche/ hobby communities. That we are repeating the mistake with discord, is very unfortunate.

Reddit really has the possibility of integrating Discord's functionality into the site if they make their chat product less shit.

That would be the best of both worlds in my opinion.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by checkyoursudo »

ShamelessC wrote: post #432
makeitdouble wrote: post #387

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Meta has made a full announcement of vaporware, but the metaverse is specifically not Meta's property, nor do they get to define what the metaverse is/will become. In that sense, I agree with you we should ignore the marketing, and I also think we should talk about the metaverse as we talk about the web, not as some rigid concept, but more a vague idea of a thing in VR.

> Metaverse as we talk about the web, not as some rigid concept, but more a vague idea of a thing in VR. Ah I see so it's like a space, but on the web. Like some sort of a cyber... Anyone talking about this "metaverse" like it is anything other than the normal internet we already have (which is equally amazing, btw) would have to have either created or fallen for some sort of marketing material.

Cyberverse! Where you go to ... cyber. Welp, that had a, uh, certain connotation back in the early 2000s.
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