No amount of privacy makes Reddit less of a cesspool.
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
#112Wait, 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.
Probably it won't help to get around VPN, but for mobile I prefer reddit is fun app. Simple and usable without any crap.
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#113No 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.
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#114No 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.
It depends a lot on the subreddit. Different subreddits can have different echo chambers.
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is an improvement over reddit's gradually worsening interface, however it is still based on reddit's private platform. For an open source alternative on a public platform, there is matrix or member.cash
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.
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#116Wait, 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.
Not sure if you're on iOS, but Apollo is a very well built third-party Reddit client. It's about 70MB to install, and lets you clear the data cache if you're concerned about storage. You can also browse without an account.
I need to look into it a bit more, when I used Apollo images were loading so fast I assume they are preloaded before I even clicked on them. If that is the case, that’s not ideal for me - I’ve seen NSFW content make the front page, but I don’t click on it. Just not sure if it is actually loading the content regardless.
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh no way. Going to have to use this
Somehow it takes 4 seconds to un-collapse a toplevel comment in Chrome. E.g. this one: https://teddit.net/r/Bossfight/comments/k6vh5v/bearers_of_th... Pages also seem to take around 10 seconds to do the initial render. No server problem, just rendering. So if you do use this, I guess don't overdo it. :) Or at least profile. I use a 2015 MBP potato laptop. I guess my perf problems aren't really relevant. But it handle…
Hmm. Not related to the issue you mention, but also on that page, when I click a "Load more comments" link, it takes me to https://teddit.net/r/Bossfight/comments/k6vh5v/bearers_of_th... , a webpage that just says "Cannot GET /r/Bossfight/comments/k6vh5v/bearers_of_the_eternal_duel/genbcos/genr9x6".
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish I could get Safari reddit links to open in Apollo without having to copy the URL. First it's "continue in browser" to dismiss the overlay that shows up each time trying to get me to use the app, then it's "read the rest of the discussion" to go from amp trash to the actual reddit site, and now they only load like 4 comments at a time and you need to click a link to load another page each time you want to see t…
If you are on reddit.com, click the share icon, and there will be a "open in Apollo" option. If you end up on an AMP page, you have to click the share icon in the gray bar up top next to the reddit.com header, and there will be an "open in Apollo" option.
Switch to DuckDuckGo and don’t get AMP pages again. You can also use !g at the start of your search to try Google’s results. Search quality is good and I only check Google occasionally when I know I’ve found the answer that way before but it’s not one of the top results on DDG. I haven’t measured but I think this saves me time.
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure if you're on iOS, but Apollo is a very well built third-party Reddit client. It's about 70MB to install, and lets you clear the data cache if you're concerned about storage. You can also browse without an account.
I need to look into it a bit more, when I used Apollo images were loading so fast I assume they are preloaded before I even clicked on them. If that is the case, that’s not ideal for me - I’ve seen NSFW content make the front page, but I don’t click on it. Just not sure if it is actually loading the content regardless.
By default, content marked NSFW should be appear blurred. There are options to further control the display of NSFW content.
Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
#120No 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…
I have for years been using the reddit compact interface, which to me is almost a pinnacle.
Append .compact to any reddit page and enjoy. It's fast and it's not the dimwitted slow loading mobile crap they've been throwing at us for years