I can’t get rid of it, it’s obnoxious. I’ve tried filtering the element with my adblocker but it keeps reappearing. As much as I find Reddit useful (unfortunately), especially for information and discussion relating to my country, I will never install their proprietary garbage app on my phone just to use their website.
Oh well. I’ve used the Internet before Reddit existed, I’m sure I can get used to doing so again.
Just activate desktop mode. That works for me whenever i have to visit reddit.
I actually find Lemmy to be kind of refreshing. While it doesn’t have nearly the depth of content or the traffic of new posts on things I’m interested in, the fact it doesn’t send my adblocker into over drive or have mods that seem to spend a lot of time trying to police their communities like they are being paid for it is nice.
Gives me a small taste of what the old days of individual blogs with comment sections and forums was like.
It’s a far more natural vibe, the Reddit dynamic was driving me crazy in a hundred subtle ways.
Change the URL to old.reddit.com, you’ll never get that pop-up
Clicking on posts can switch back to the www version though. I’m honestly over it.
Theres a Firefox addon that redirects you to the old version when you click a link.
I left because I got banned twice. One for three days for telling a story about my trainer Mark (whos name I changed) and how I didnt like him. 3 day ban for inciting violence. A week later, I was commenting on a post about someone saying getting punched in the face turned out to be a good thing for him. I replied, “Yeah man, a punch to the mouth can be great for behavior correction.” Banned for 7 days.
It is important to mention that I was banned the literal second I hit post. No human saw my posts. Both times, I was autobanned by the AI moderators. It just disgusted me, so I deleted my account. I had that account since 2011, too.
One problem I had with Reddit is that the world is falling apart, and every post about serious shit always has people thinking they are hilarious. American missile blows up a school, “Guess the US found oil under that school huehuehuehue” It got so annoying.
TLDR: AI Moderation is getting super strict to prepare for their IPO, all the posts felt like bots anyways.
Yah, you have to use code words now like how they used “Panda” as a code word for Pres Xi in China.
They are pushing that pop-up to the users who visit the site most so if you delete cookies (not sure if logged in / out matters) you will not get that pop-up… until you do again.
They still have this paywall? I assumed they immediately stopped due to the incredible bounce rate from all the lurkers
i use firefox browser on the phone it allows you to close it, i also have adblockers on.
it doesn’t on my end. I had to make an account
I left when they permabanned two accounts.
Fun Fact: Both accounts are now back. 🤣
I’m a former redditor as well, a few years back. Lemmy is a very nice place. It’s like Reddit back before Reddit went to shit (~15 years ago).
This year, we’ve had a big influx from Reddit. This is great that people are finally abandoning ship.
I’m pleading with you that are new here…please don’t bring the nastiness here. Start afresh!
I say that because I’ve noticed a sharp increase of shitty attitudes all of the sudden. It’s a direct correlation with the new influx of redditors. I had someone, just two days ago, accuse me of acting like an r/atheist whatever-the-fuck. He was trying to insult me because I disagreed with his view on something.
It doesn’t matter if we agree or disagree…respect and latitude is what makes Lemmy a great place. Let’s not turn this platform into Reddit 2.0 ❤️
just block tankies instances. and you are golden. also individuals who make tankie comments should also be blocked. plus avoid the politics community too much pro-zionists going there.
When i first came to lemmy i was defensive and grouchy. Took a bit to recognize how different it is here.
Keep a hopeful heart, but use the block function liberally.
It’s one of the things few people know exists, and it will make your life much more sane. In fact, people have been here for several years know that there’s a small cadre of toxic users, and once you accidentally catch them in your block net, things calm down here for you.
Don’t block people out of anger, just ask yourself if this person is the type of individual who’s going to contribute to my life in any way? If they anger you are frustrate you, just block them. We don’t know each other, or we’re all just faceless humans here.
I don’t think I’ve ever blocked a person. I just scroll past. I almost always sort by Subscribed New. Occasionally I check All, see the kooks, and go back to Subscribed.
Welcome ❤️
That’s exactly what drove me over here a few days ago. After they locked the API up and boost stopped working I was just browsing the website occasionally. Lemmy is cool so far, just running into a worrying amount of pro-Russian propaganda mental gymnastics. And of course not as many speciality subs yet. I wanna chat about project cars but the largest car community here are those fuckcars loons. Not fun people to be around.
thier AI bots got worst in the last year, the purges made thier bots more apparent and numerious.
Just block a large chunk of .ml and .hexbear stuff and you’ll see 95% less commies.
commies aren’t even the issue it’s the tankies. definitely a lot more leftist presence on lemmy than average (though that’s true for the internet as well I feel) but most of them aren’t just whiplashing straight over to bootlicking the anti-western dictators instead.
Commies are fine, the pro-military tankies are the issue.
Commie here, please don’t confuse Tankies who are basically just nationalists for non-US aligned countries with me.
So you don’t think life is so much better in N. Korea than South like memes say?
Those guys are a strange phenomenon and I get why people block them but it’s also fascinating as like a performative art or something.
I’m probably further left than almost everyone I know IRL, but never seen people go that hard into it. It’s wild.
I’ve met people who were like the lite version of them, but maybe they just don’t say it to me but do on Lemmy.
No North Korea is an authoritarian regime that doesn’t even claim to be communist anymore.
Sadly I’m involved in American left politics which means I have met freaks that think China is better than the US, and would defend the USSR, I’m not quite sure if they’d defend "DP"RK, but frankly they are annoying so I have as little to do with them as possible.
I’ve met people who were like the lite version of them, but maybe they just don’t say it to me but do on Lemmy.
Yeah there is a lot of keyboard warrioring involved, much like white nationalists, get them out from their basement and they’ll try and act normal though.
Yeah, in wasn’t trying to imply you’d be pro D. P. R. K. in
CincinnatiPyongyang because you identified as commie. More like it’s just kind of head scratching to see people dismiss criticism of them or Pol Pot or something, because the US also did atrocious crazy things too, like they both aren’t fucking horrific.I’m just not used to anyone being apologetic about anything a ‘communist’ country does. Im used to people trying to distance themselves them from the actions of certain countries if they call themselves a communist, which makes seeing people lean into seem interesting. I just didn’t want to use the Reddit app so wasn’t expecting this major shift
Yeah block the ml instance and any users and it gets better. There’s a couple other propaganda instances but ml is the worst.
ML, hexbear, and lemmygrad to be specific.
Like the other person said, your Lemmy experience will be a lot better once you block the tankie instances, but I hear you regarding the lack of niche communities. I want to talk about cars too, but unfortunately the “fuck cars” crowd far outnumbers us and they are everywhere on Lemmy. I can’t help that I enjoy driving; chill out, people!
all you need to block is tankies, and politics. world. i just leave the memes sub alone.
Once you build up a decent block list, this place gets much better. I just wish there was more activity. It sucks to see a thing I’d like to discuss, and seeing 0 comments on the post.
Easy solution to that, just get into Linux and Star Trek.
Techies, Trekkies, and Tankies: the three types of lemmings.
Did your block list catch the baby with the bathwater?
Only if necessary, some of those babies are still annoying AF.
I block about 150 accounts and 15 communities.
Only one of by blocked accounts still regularly comments on my stuff, (it shows up as an empty comment with no name) I’m still ignoring whoever in the hell it was.
Have you gone to Car Enthusiasts already? https://lemmy.world/c/cars
(I’m not a car person, so I don’t have any other recommendations. I just remember seeing posts from that community.)
Start a community…what kind of cars you into?
Reddit was the bomb if I had an issue with a car and I needed to chat with 50 people that already solved the same issue on a model specific sub. Can’t do that here
The technical problem (reddit UX is shit/app is shit) has various solutions. Eg:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/
The bigger problem of reddit being reddit is … why Lemmy exists.
Let’s each do our best not to turn Lemmy into Reddit.
Red Reader Dev said they were considering making the app work for Lemmy back before they got an accessibility exemption.
I kinda wish they didn’t get that exemption. It would be the best Lemmy app available.
Voyager feels very similar imho
Can it download all the articles in a cache for later browsing offline?
Last I checked, yeah. Try it an see.
EDIT: Oh you mean Voyager?. Let me check by going into airplane mode. Ok what I see is - it downloads the topmost article / OP post but no comments beyond that. That might be a settings issue tho. So…try it and see still holds as advice.
I usually don’t browse the web on my phone but for me it was when I got a reddit warning for wishing that someone would put something extra in Putin’s tea.
I got a comment deleted for saying Thailand should punish violent Israeli tourists
welcome here, over here is chill
Ymmv
Maybe an rss reader might block the ads. Issue is getting content like pictures and videos since reddit learned how to make sharing their content hostile to other platforms
