Started with old reddit being blocked if you don’t sign in. I stopped using Reddit with an account years ago when they banned me for no good reason after I’d spent months building a subreddit that was attracting users (was a state specific sub that wasn’t NSFW or selling anything.)
I had gotten around the old reddit ban by using a VPN. At first not every state had this ban on old reddit. Last week that changed. Now every place seems to not allow old reddit unless signed in.
Fine, I’ll use new reddit. My god it sucks. It’s designed to show you ads every other post. Videos autoplay which lags out some of us users machines/connections. I gave up trying to use it. Tried the app, even with protections turned on it was constantly spying on me so I uninstalled it. Plus the app sucked just as bad as new reddit does.
Since Google search results almost always include a reddit post I still occasionally click on one. I noticed now that anytime I click on one and nav to new reddit then try to click back the page lags for upto 30 seconds. Clicking back more doesn’t speed it up. It freezes up. I have to close the tab and start the search over again.
Reddit is death spiraling. That was what pushed me to signup on Lemmy. I suspect we’ll see more converts in the coming months.
Welcome to lemmy. It’s not perfect, but its entertaining.
I lurk by using one of these redlib instances
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md
I like the compact wide UI setting so less horizontal space is wasted.
Reddit shadowbanned my comments about moving to Lemmy and objecting to the API access for 3rd party apps. Straight up censorship.
Reddit became unusable when Bacon Reader went offline in the API shutdown.
It is just even more unusable now.
Agreed. Cutting off the API’s was the start. But many of us got by with old reddit and it worked ok for lurkers. After they banned me I gave up on contributing but still lurked. They’ve effectively ended that with the death of old. And they made new reddit so glitchy and “sticky” that I don’t even want to click the google search results links anymore.
Bravo Reddit. Throw away that last remaining benefit you offered.
For sure. Bacon Reader was the best. I changed all the colors for Connect to Bacon Reader colors to feel at home.
Yup, I still have baconreader installed, I can’t delete it.
Fine, I’ll use new reddit.
Haha, gross.
Yeah it feels yucky. But like I said, since google search results still have a decade+ of answers that are often good I’m almost forced to eventually click a reddit link. Before this week that was not usually a problem. I didn’t even convert every link to old reddit before they forced its end.
But as of this week any reddit link I click jams up my browser when I back-click. Its sticky and extra fucky. They are actively sabotaging reddit.
When you find a good reddit post with information, grab it and post it here with an asterisk that it came from a specific sub. Reddit has made fat bank off of user’s content, so now users should return the favor and bring the best of it here. I’ve got my posts archived and am soring through them and rewriting the best ones to repost here… Was on vintagemac and did a ton of how-to’s.
Try Startpage, Kagi, and even Qwant.
I pay $10/month to Kagi so I can remove Reddit result from searches without having to add the flag to the query. Reddit has been garbage for 5 years now.
Use a front like Redlib, there are also browser extensions to redirect your click
Nah I’m not doing that much work for reddit. It’s going to start slowly dying off like facebook anyways. I’d noticed over the last year or so how much content from Indian subreddits were making the frontpage. Especially on weekends and the mornings of weekdays. I don’t really need that, nor do I need the ads, bots, shills and other junk that has accumulated. Time for reddit to digg itself its own grave.
I agree but my point was that Reddit is still a valuable website to search infos when you need it, and a frontend is the best way to do it in every aspect.
Also pretty much effortless, just go here and search stuff: https://reddit.nerdvpn.de/
I’ve started doing this, one tip I have is there’s an option in the settings Layout->Compact that makes it a bit more like old.reddit to browse
Try old.lemmy.world if you like the old.reddit interface…
Sweet summer child…
Can we like… rebuild the old fashion message board infrastructure that reddit displaced decades ago?
They’re still around!
Some are but many are not. And the survivors are way less populated than they were even a decade ago. Reddit must die so they can live!
I use RedReader on andriod (GOS) to access Reddit. Reddit blocks my locked down brower over VPN so RedReader is my last option. Once that goes away, I’m done.
I read about that option but fuck it I’m not real into apps as it is. I can just not use reddit anymore. I don’t really use facebook or xitter either. Life is better without them.
The Old Reddit Redirect addon works without logging in (for now).
They’ll kill that soon. I’m done with workarounds. Them making new reddit jam up my browser was the last straw. Let it burn. It’s mostly bots and shills these days anyways.
