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I used to hit reddit forums for internet queries because they are usually at the top of search engines. Now I blow right past them to the next in theme answers (steam for gaming for example) because the join us we are a cult splash screen is annoying. Anyone that is going to create a reddit account/use the app ALREADY IS. The enshittification is so painfully bad.
I wanted to leave reddit and that is the reason I cam to lemmy but sadly there is almost nothing here of my interest. It is mostly western based, so things of my interest arent really here.
I still have removed reddit from my phone and only use it on desktop to get to know about current affairs.
reddit is a fucking dumpster fire if you aren’t logged in… when i first joined lemmy i would still occasionally visit reddit when i got bored, but i wasn’t logging in and holy shit its a fucking cesspool!
if you aren’t logged in
Ngl, you had me in the first half
It is all bots. The actual remaining humans are there to make the same recycled jokes and argue with each other.
It is nice to not be on it (or here) constantly.
The power move is to see that and never return. Let their analytics show you didn’t give in and won’t be giving them any more telemetry/user data/content.
I can’t believe how bad it is now. There is no real news. It used to be interesting but it’s so watered down that it’s basically pointless. Couple that with the quality of major news outlets, and we’re basically experiencing a media blackout.
I’d add the ubiquity of paywalls these days contributes a lot as well. We used to have it so good.
You can still subscribe to reddit subs using RSS feeds (for now, they’re planning to discontinue RSS sadly). Then open it using redlib and LibRedirect browser extension.
Thanks for forcing me reddit. Hello lemmy
Hi friend!
Thanks for the content you createdfor us, now log in to see it.
Stop using platforms that are actively locking you out. The reason they keep doing this is because people keep complying.
Red reader on android works great.
Mine stopped working yesterday
Been like that for about month in Aus.
Nice. That is just enough of a barrier to stop be using reddit entirely. Not posted in years but sometimes read when bored enough.
Same, I’m 100% here now.
I still lurked since the api bs and after close to 20 yrs on reddit they pull this crap. They can get fucked.
Exactly why I’m here. I used RIF exclusively for a decade, then they killed it. I suffered with their browser version, but now they killed r/all and I ditched for good.
Don’t log into an account.
Browse the Internet like normal.
If x.com or reddit.com won’t let you view without privacy, they’re dead and useless.
Have some spine; lead, and stop following and being led by evil people and companies.
XCancel and redlib will let you browse both without an account, and while cutting out most of their ad revenue as well (bots/marketing accounts notwithstanding of course)
Firefox extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/redlib/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/xcancel/
Redlib is also much easier to use on mobile than old reddit, but posts are rate limited to every 12 hours or something. So it actually helps stop you from doom scrolling a bit too.
This is true for YouTube as well.
You can view YouTube logged out
Google are becoming increasingly hostile, sometimes not age-restricted content will show the same if it flags your IP etc. and then login doesn’t even work, with multifactor errors if again IP limited or flagged you don’t even get your MFA options, passkey prompt not appearing etc all of it I presume in service of bot protection but definitely also ad and app blocking
I cant. Librewolf, adguard home and other stuff running. It asks me to log in every time. I dont know whats the issue and tbh i really dont care.
Freetube on linux solves that for me tho.
Yep, I do that. I don’t subscribe, I bookmark.
You can even get RSS feeds for channels. I use Miniflux, and it’ll make a feed just from the channel URL, but I think there might technically be a “proper” URL for the feed that other clients might need instead.
Probably should look into that actually.
I didn’t even notice
Artemis for Reddit still works without an account.
