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Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by dhritzkiv »

henlo wrote: post #60

Wait, 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.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

#92

Post by FreeTrade »

evolvedspeech wrote: post #47

While an improvement on Reddit's user interface is welcome, it is yet another way to interact with privately curated content. There are now countless clones and alternatives to Reddit and Twitter that advertise themselves as free-speech (Gab, Parler etc) - yet they all share the centralized model, where user accounts are really owned by the platform and where speech and users can be removed. What I really want from t…

You might consider https://member.cash

User accounts are based on private keys, so are self-sovereign. Posts and interactions are recorded on the blockchain, so removal becomes impossible.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

#93

Post by ComputerGuru »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #48
llbeansandrice wrote: post #38

Earlier 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…

fwiw, it's instantaneous for me on a 2016 laptop running Firefox on Linux w/ Xorg and nVidia. No fans even spin up (and this is an HP, and we all know how much HP fans like to spin.)

https://imgur.com/a/BjRqAs2

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

#94

Post by ComputerGuru »

dhritzkiv wrote: post #91
henlo wrote: post #60

Wait, 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 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 the children to a comment.

Apollo is a breath of fresh air, but iOS rules for having a website link open in an app are extremely convoluted and require explicit hard-code dapproval from both the domain owner and app author, meaning even if you man-in-the-middle reddit.com on your intranet to provide the required headers/metafiles, you would need Apollo's author to also add reddit.com to the list of URLs the app is capable of intercepting. Yuck.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

#95

Post by matt_kantor »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #93
sillysaurusx wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

fwiw, it's instantaneous for me on a 2016 laptop running Firefox on Linux w/ Xorg and nVidia. No fans even spin up (and this is an HP, and we all know how much HP fans like to spin.) https://imgur.com/a/BjRqAs2

On my 2013 macbook pro running Firefox 83 it spends about ~130ms in "layout" when expanding the comments (quick enough to be almost imperceptible).

https://imgur.com/a/nV14ybI

Seems to be a Chrome-only issue?

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

#96

Post by evolvedspeech »

FreeTrade wrote: post #92
evolvedspeech wrote: post #47

While an improvement on Reddit's user interface is welcome, it is yet another way to interact with privately curated content. There are now countless clones and alternatives to Reddit and Twitter that advertise themselves as free-speech (Gab, Parler etc) - yet they all share the centralized model, where user accounts are really owned by the platform and where speech and users can be removed. What I really want from t…

You might consider https://member.cash User accounts are based on private keys, so are self-sovereign. Posts and interactions are recorded on the blockchain, so removal becomes impossible.

I don't get it. The website operator could remove or moderate posts. He could be forced to, and the whole website could simply be taken offline.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

#97

Post by codetheweb »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #94
dhritzkiv wrote: post #91

Earlier 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 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…

Opener works pretty well for this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/opener-open-links-in-apps/id98...

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

#99

Post by rapnie »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #93
sillysaurusx wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

fwiw, it's instantaneous for me on a 2016 laptop running Firefox on Linux w/ Xorg and nVidia. No fans even spin up (and this is an HP, and we all know how much HP fans like to spin.) https://imgur.com/a/BjRqAs2

Instantaneous on FF, old samsung S7

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

#100

Post by diogenesjunior »

m463 wrote: post #25

No 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…

>and no javascript.

Here is the source code: https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit. Maybe I am mistaken, but there seems to be a lot of JavaScript running this website.

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