Their next claim: Use our app or it will rain all day!
/s
The sad thing is that this is the reason they’re planning to shut down oldreddit
Oh, damn…
Rare for me to use, but sucks option is being removed.
I know embedded is an option, and other front ends.
What do y’all use in the rare chance you see a reddit source?
Are you guys only rarely seeing Reddit sources on lemmy? With these shitty lemmit bots inundating this site with literally just links to Reddit without even any preview, I’m seeing almost exclusively Reddit links. It’s honestly make me rethink using lemmy recently.
I blocked those bots.
Those bots are worth blocking. There never appears to be any discussion on the posts, so you won’t miss anything.
Honestly, there are a few communities that rely on it—the more meme/picture-centric and the advice-centric ones—that I don’t want to completely block out. So I’ve been going and blocking the communities that flood my feed with minutes-old Reddit posts that don’t even offer the text to read or a picture to look at. I will say as well, I don’t know what causes one to include text but not the other, but I do also enjoy reading some of those insane stories posted on some subreddit I never subscribed to like relationship advice or drugs stories or something. There’s some wild shit. I don’t need the conversation in the comments to enjoy the batshit story
Ignore it
Yes, that is becoming the norm, similar to websites that want adblock removed or signin popups.
Aside from lemmy what do you use for info. and other?
libreddit
Teddit’s also good, but I prefer libreddit’s UI
You can use farside.link to automatically redirect to working instances but it’s very hit or miss for reddit
Sometimes you have to try it five or more times
I literally predicted that old.reddit.com would shut down in 6 months after u/spez said it’s not going anywhere, just like Apollo. I wasn’t sure how seriously to take this but I think I will be pretty close.
What’s sad about it? Reddit is garbage. Get off it and stop using it.
Tbh i was surprised that it is still up. Aren’t they affected by the API pricing or something
It’s part of reddit, the api debacle was for 3rd party api users.
old.reddit is just the official website with the old layout from before they redesigned their front end ui. It’s part of Reddit’s official website that they kept around because so many people hate the redesign, it’s not a 3rd party and therefore not affected by any pricing policies.
Thank You, kind stranger(s)
I stopped using reddit on mobile after the api debacle. Once old reddit is done, I won’t be visiting on my desktop either. The redesign is and always has been trash.
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Changes to reddit are what brought me here. Once old.reddit.com disappears I will be completely done with it.
There’s also beta.reddit.com
What’s the differences here?
What’s the differences here?
I was not able to use it 2 or 3 days ago. I assumed they killed already but it was probably an issue with the work’s firewall then
Request desktop website
The day they kill old reddit will be the end of reddit for me.
The day they kill old reddit will be the end of reddit itself. A lot of moderators depend on the older interface (along with RES) to manage their communities. Imagine trying to mod with reddit’s current interface.
Well they already did that when shutting down the API. And yet they try to keep that thing alive in most subs.
Killing the API made modding on mobile harder, but it mostly didn’t affect desktop mod tools. Killing old.reddit would be a huge deal.
I thought it did though. Thats what the mods at least told.
Why is it not the end already? Drop it, move on, you will be better off for you might even realise how much of a problem you have
Thanks mom, I will.
Your mental health matters dear. Eat plenty of greens and no more reddit!
Can you get me some Capt’n crunch on your way back home? Pretty please??
I just don’t use Reddit at all anymore.
Same. I don’t miss it. I’m really enjoying Lemmy and the fediverse!
Still, when I’m looking for a solution for a specific problem, reddit is basically the only reliable source at the moment.
Wish there was a quick way to search for posts across all instances using search engines.
Reddit has years of community data. Lemmy will get there one day as long as we keep at it.
/c/Risa is all I need.
I never knew how much I needed Star Trek memes in my life until Stamets and The Picard Maneuver graced us with their presence. Walk with the prophets, my child.
Sadly some of the more specific subs didn’t migrate to Lemmy :/
I recreated a few of my favs. Nobody posts. ☹️
Keep it up, maybe you’re establishing a lurker base that will spring into action on some random post eventually.
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Some of them did and just died. Lemmy doesn’t have a USP and it’s starting to show.
Reddit also doesn’t have one except for the Network-Effect keeping users there.
There are some communities that just don’t exist on Lemmy.
start it
It gets a bit boring after being the only poster for a while :(
Yes, but what about the userbase?
if you build it they will come
One subreddit I still check occasionally is just for Skyrim mods made by one guy. This community of mere hundreds is wherever he makes his posts, and moving would annoy some of his Patreon supporters. The switching cost is high relative to the benefits of switching.
Same. But I do miss it.
I did at first, but I don’t miss it at all anymore. Too many assholes at this point. It stopped being useful a long time ago. Finding old Reddit threads can be helpful sometimes, but current Reddit is a shitshow.
I miss some content but lemmy has been getting better and better, and after Boost for lemmy I won’t ever come back to reddit.
Connect is my jam, but there are a bunch of solid clients to choose from
I miss the niche content. Lemmy isn’t big enough yet to have sorted into big “stupid” subs vs smaller niche subs that tend to attract smarter and more well-informed users. The result is that the signal-to-noise ratio on Lemmy still kind of sucks and any comment thread is likely to consist of three quarters banal gibberish and condescending idiocy and maybe one quarter actually intelligent, thoughtful and informed opinion.
I rarely make a comment on Lemmy without pissing off people on all sides of any given issue, which tells me that Lemmy’s users aren’t really good at nuance or complexity.
When looking something up, especially technical product information the best answer is still often a reddit link. That will change in the future but it will take time.
Old.reddit is the only way yo access this information without account but i paradoxically cant wait for them to shut it down cause the quicker reddit completely dies the faster other places will become knowledge hubs.
Ehhh, even for that I’ve had issues, even before the API stuff. The solutions I came across either came from casual word of mouth on Discord, tutorials on GitHub or forums other than Reddit.
It never was the pinnacle of knowledge, i am not on many different forums and only in the last year have started to avoid internet search where possible but often neither google or bing have satisfying results with only a single reddit link that may have the answer.
reddit has been talking about blocking search crawlers, so it may die (for you) that way first.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23925504/reddit-deny-force-log-in-see-posts-ai-companies-deals
lol. And you know they won’t be fixing their own search engine any time soon. Its like they want their site to die jfc.
Same. I was wasting way too much time there anyway. The only thing I still use it for is discussions for TV shows.
I don’t actively use it either, but sometimes you’re trying to fix some esoteric error that no one has experienced since the existence of the Western Roman Empire and the only place where a solution exists is Reddit. In those cases I kinda have to visit that wretched hive.
Same. However, I have rarely been able to solve a technical problem with Reddit posts or comments. It’s a better source for random experiences about something.
For random technical problems with new software or hardware, Reddit quality is not as good as it used to be, IMHO.
For somewhat niche hobbies, like my mushroom growing, subjective experiences may be helpful to take into account. Reading dozens of different opinions about a problem in a hobby that has hundreds of different variables has its uses. (For example, if you want to test something specific, you can get an idea about the range of conditions to test.)
Wait until you need to read an answer to a technical question which was only answered on Reddit. Can’t wait when such pages will be replaced with Lemmy.
I was trying to find if is safe to mix LSD with energy drinks and the only place where someone was answering that was on reddit, restricted because is 18+ somehow. Had to use the tip given from OP to see it outside the app. The general consensus (because this shit can’t be properly researched) is that caffeine in general is not recommended with LSD.
Did you check erowid? They’re good in my experience.
I wouldn’t take drug-mixing advice from some rando on reddit or lemmy or any other similar site.
That being said, please limit yourself to one substance at a time, get some fentanyl test strips and narcan if you’re able, and always have a wingman with you. Assuming it’s possible where you live, buy your drugs from a regulated dispensary or at least a source you know and trust (whose source they trust).
Have fun, but stay safe. The times they are a changing…even weed has dangerous shit mixed in nowadays.
That’s my drug advice from a rando on a lemmy.
I mean , you can’t exactly go ask a doctor how to use lsd. Sometimes you just want to read up on something based on someone else’s personal experience. The website might be doing some dumb shit lately but it’s hard to replace the vast number of people who have answered exact questions you’re looking for. Lemmy just doesn’t have the 10+ year head start
You can totally ask a good doctor that. They’ll likely say something along the lines of “don’t do drugs…but if you’re still gonna do this…”
Problem is, many otherwise good doctors are not very knowledgeable about illicit drugs, particularly those that are comparatively rare/aren’t a public health crisis (LSD, while popular, is kinda niche compared to meth and opioids).
A big chunk of the time you’re just going to get “Don’t use drugs”, simply because they don’t have much else to say about it, and don’t want you taking risks based on something they’ve said. Doesn’t mean don’t ask*, but know you may not get useful harm reduction information from Dr. F. Practitioner.
*That said there IS a risk that such a question can paint you as a potential drug seeker, and so create barriers to care if someone decides to add that to your chart when you were just trying to minimize risk.
You absolutely can
Wish it looked better on mobile. I only ever browsed reddit (lemmy too) on my phone.
Ngl after Apollo shut down I tried the website and I hate how every time you finish looking at a post and decide to go back to the feed it throws you back to the top meaning you have to scroll all the way back down to where you originally was
I always used old.reddit on mobile and had no problems. Not sure how anything could look any better.
You can’t think of any way it could look better? Really?
Certainly not any of the main changes made by the new Reddit UI. Except maybe the collapse thread buttons being long, vertical bars. That was a good idea.
To clarify: I also use RES, so that’s what I’m thinking of when I say old.reddit.
Stop using reddit
Tell that to all the amateur porn creators! Lemmy is severely lacking content in that category unfortunately
https://lemmynsfw.com is growing pretty quick, though the number of reposts is pretty high.
There’s also beta.reddit.com which I discovered unintentionally on google
Is that for the newer worse UI?
No, looks like old reddit
interesting
Well, Boost still works for me
How?! Iean the app doesn’t crash, but trying to go anywhere is busted, and I don’t think browsing /all works…
there’s a typo in your meme, op. The URL is supposed to look something like that
https://lemmy.ml/...At least we know this situation will never occur in Lemmy because everyone would just jump to another instance - the joy of decentralised media.
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A big part of getting you to use their app is to data mine EVERYTHING about you. Unlike a web browser with an ad-blocker, an app can collect your location, location history, your call logs, your contact list and serve up unlockable ads.
google ads can easily be dns blocked, about reddit ads… yeah.
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NewPipe with Sponsor block, autoskips intros, in-video ads, promotional segments, outros.
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Oh. Well, can I recommend NewPipe with Sponsorblock for your video perusal then? It also supports PeerTube instances, so it’s also a Fediverse video client! :D
There’s better phone operating systems around, I can firewall apps completely or lock them to use VPN only. And with android finally getting better permission controls, I can individually approve all of those datapoints you listed.
That’s great and everybody should do that, but it’s beside the point that an app running code on your device is there. It’s even better to do all of the above and still not use the bullshit apps when there is a website available.
I use GrapheneOS and I still don’t install anybody’s app. Discounts on hamburgers with an app? Fuck that. No app for you.
Actually yeah I do install some apps, but most are open source from F-Droid.
I didn’t know you could do that tbh
Same here i thought the API changes killed old reddit.
