I know most of you want to answer IGNORE REDDIT!!, WE ARE SO MUCH BETTER!!, USE ONLY THE FEDIVERSE!! which I do, but there are several problems with it:
the fediverse sometimes looks like a cult, only a marxist one: China and Russia are good, there are concentration camps in Ukraine, Ukraine belongs to Russia, like Taiwan belongs to China, Israel is a genocidal state, China is so much better than the US…
Some mods on lemmy show the same level of intolerance as some mods on reddit.
I stopped using reddit years ago but I still lurked because some communities there, mostly the non ideological ones, don’t have an alternative: on lemmy there are so many subs with absolutely no content, or one post written 4 years ago, 20 users and 1 visitor per month. That’s not an active community.
reddit won’t stop its enshittification but for the time being there is no alternative for the communities I’m interested in, mostly non ideological ones about medicine, nursing, philosophy, religion, dementia, autism, biology…
And I’m not looking for communities were medicine, biology or dementia are used as an excuse to rant against the current POTUS or to introduce me to the greatness of communism, I really only care about the topics I mentioned.
For some websites that require a log in I use archive.ph but I don’t see how this would work with reddit.
Any ideas? I’m not creating an account with reddit.
old reddit on desktop doesnt get the nag yet here. also there might be other ways to access reddit without going to the site, like libdirect, or continuum app(still janky with compact layout). you can use old reddit on a mobile phone, but it doesnt resize properly, and i havnt seen any addons that can do it effectively.
Redlib
The tankies don’t speak for us all, not even close
As for the answer to the question posted in the title, that’s what libreddit instances are for.
As for the whole rant in the post about being oh so special that you totally should not have to adapt to the place created by the people who care about these things for themselves because they were mistreated in other places, and they should shut up and accommodate you instead, I can tell you to learn your place. And I don’t mean it in a scorning way even if you deserve that: but rather in terms of practicality: here in the Fediverse might just not exist what you are looking for (yet). Maybe look for old-style forums that are topical and dedicated to the subject at hand, or turn to more local conversation groups. Or find like-minded people enough to start your own community here in the Fediverse.
Until the old.reddit block, i could still use Stealth to lurk, but thats done now too. There still seem to be third party frontends that work (at least for sfw type stuff), just look for “reddit viewer” or something similar.
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the fediverse sometimes looks like a cult, only a marxist one: China and Russia are good, there are concentration camps in Ukraine, Ukraine belongs to Russia, like Taiwan belongs to China, Israel is a genocidal state, China is so much better than the US…
Block Lemmygrad, .ML, and Hexbear and that problem basically disappears completely.
Some mods on lemmy show the same level of intolerance as some mods on reddit.
People are the same everywhere. This isn’t an issue you will ever not run into.
reddit won’t stop its enshittification but for the time being there is no alternative for the communities I’m interested in, mostly non ideological ones about medicine, nursing, philosophy, religion, dementia, autism, biology…
Good luck finding non-ideological discussions on these subjects. Especially philosophy and religion. You don’t get that on reddit, either.
I don’t understand though.
I don’t block anyone or any instance and the tankies are barely a problem I notice.
They represent a fringe group that gets downvoted to hell whenever they open their mouth.
I really don’t understand this perception that Lemmy is a tankie cult.
However, Israel is a genocidal state, WTF does this have to do with the other things mentionned? It’s the mainstream view.
EDIT: My instance blocks hexbear and lemmygrad and I was blissfully unaware.
I don’t block them either, I find them amusing
You are likely on an instance that blocks them for you, most sane ones do.
Israel is a genocidal ethnostate that needs to be stopped.
Russia and NK both have systematic corruption issues that run deep enough to not believe any of their propaganda, even the stuff made by other nations or interests. With that in mind the corruption itself is obvious and tells of fundamental issues in governance and civil structure on its own.
China ran over thousands of protesting students in Tiananmen and has committed far worse atrocities in the decades since.
The US is a straight up fascist authoritarian state that is on the brink of collapse.
Cuba has managed to become the best sales pitch Communism ever had with their continued resilience in the face of global sanctions and embargo.
Pineapple is delicious on pizza.
At the end of the day people are going to have opinions on all of that, and the magic of the fediverse is that I can make posts like this to weed them out pretty easily.
All that being said this is still one of the more radically left leaning social spaces regardless of where you happen to fall on the politics personally. I can understand the conflation with tankies just because there is a lot of focus on the same solutions but with wildly different takes on how to implement them.
Yeah, sh.itjust.works blocks hexbear and lemmygrad. Not .ml, though.
Oooh, I see, thanks.
2nd for redlib. I paired that with a automatic redirection plugin on Firefox
I thought you were referencing libredirect at first. Funny how the names just line up like that.
Redlib is the way to go for lurking Reddit; for everything about social just use Lemmy and contribute to contents and improvements.
I don’t see any reason to ever use Reddit at all, tbh. They’ve become nothing more than a clog on search engines.
plenty of useful answer to questions on Reddit in Google search results. Although asking an LLM the same question will regurgitate the responses for you anyway.
The useful human discussions were deleted a long time ago.
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RSS still works, sometimes. They seem to be doing something weird with it but have not cut it off entirely. You can take individual subreddit URL’s, add “/.rss” to the end, and use that in an RSS reader.
You will only get links and post text, you won’t get any comments.
You can subscribe to reddit users and subs by subscribing to the rss feed. Just add
/rssto the end of the community or user URL. Then input that rss URL into the RSS reader of your choice.You can also use a redlib instance. Here is a list of instances.
The easiest way to use redlib seamlessly is to use the Libredirect browser extension. It has redlib setup and you just have to configure it to use certain instances in the settings. It works on any desktop/laptop with the standard Firefox/chromium based browsers and also on Android with any Firefox version that allows developer tooling/add-on store.
It’s probable reddit might lock down rss feeds and is probably trying to figure out how to limit or stop the scraping redlib does, but for now they work, and work well.
Create an account using a disposable email
but they also require a phone number, don’t they?
Didn’t from me. Maybe that depends on where you are.
I used to make a new account 2-3 times a year and abandon the previous one. I always used one of those “10 minute email” services to make the account. Had no problems with it. Last account I made a was about 2 weeks ago. And that will be my last, since I assume they are going to get rid of old.reddit completely, they hinted at such in their recent blog post thing. So when that happens, its byebye reddit forever.
What he say. Use a good free one like Proton and you can use it as the disposable email account.
You can use redlib instances
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib#instances
You can subscribe and filter out subs. Go into settings and you can set the UI to wide so text fills the width of the screen like old.reddit instead of wasted side padding.
And you can save your settings by copying some text that is generated to use across various redlib instances and have your subscriptions and filters set without having to set up it manually again.
