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.
Okee dokee
I got a comment deleted for saying Thailand should punish violent Israeli tourists
At the risk of sending you back to the hellsite, there are extensions that force all reddit pages to load in old.reddit
There’s no fix for the fact that they started banning people just for upvoting the wrong thing, though. That was the point that I bailed. Reddit is now censorship prime, and you never know what topics they’re hiding from the public.
When I have to use reddit (searching for info about obscure idle games from 10 years ago), old.reddit makes it tolerable.
There’s a scraper app called RDX that I have also used with success. You can only lurk which is fine by me as I haven’t contributed in years over there.
I left when they permabanned two accounts.
Fun Fact: Both accounts are now back. 🤣
Welcome.
Isn’t it amazing how Reddit was this beautiful community, genuinely useful and welcoming to millions, and now it’s being thrown away, soiled, emptied out, on the pathetic whims of some selfish billionaire owner?
I find that Reddit is being run by dictators who will ban anyone easily
It’s just how capitalism do. Enjoy free VC services while they last, but do not get attached to them. They will, invariably, enshittify.
Private companies with good leadership can last for a bit but eventually slide as well. Companies do not have moral stances and only will hold moral policies as long as they have moral leadership or they fear user backlash. Money and profits are too great an incentive.
Reddit was big enough that it wasn’t worried about user backlash. I’m enjoying Steam for now, but there will come a day that it will too become a pariah, mark my words.
I was dumb/addicted enough to keep paying to use a 3rd party app but their ban-happiness meant Iwas functionally paying to lurk for 95% of the time and I think they permabanned me finally.
Their loss, i love nothing if I dont love to be threatened with a good time
Maybe its time to say godbye to Reddit.
Settings -> Preferences -> Default to old Reddit -> turn it on
It’s a per-device setting, so this needs to be done on the phone. But there’s no such message anymore if you do that.
Welcome!
Use browser, Firefox and ublock origin, then the old reddit plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/
Legit the best way to browse Reddit.
Reddit has IP shadowbanned me for some reason. All new posts on my main account are invisible, and new accounts are the same. I’ve appealed, multiple times, to no response.
And not “some reason” being “I made edgy political posts they’d obviously dislike.” No, I did two things on Reddit:
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Nerd out about lore on /r/thelastairbender and some other fandom subs
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Nerd out about ML in /r/localllama, before the tech bros came for it.
Doesn’t seem like anything to ban me over.
…Funny thing is, it seems like I’m not alone?
I noticed many experts missing in /r/localllama. Honestly it feels like all the technical knowledge has been sucked out of the sub, and people there don’t even know the basics of how stuff works.
Same with my preferred fandoms. They’ve gotten more “culty,” less knowledgeable, less interested in deep lore and speculative theory/stories.
On the r/LocalLLama - there’s a Lemmy equivalent. It’s quiet but if you start a good topic people will come out of the wood work.
I’m thinking of starting one about my new project (replacing llm with deterministic code + Markov chain for garnish. Not quite an expert system of old but towards that end; DM me if you want and I will send you link to repo).
Anyway - fuck reddit and its performative nonsense, slop and bots. I will never share technical knowledge there again.
Hopefully the friction of using Lemmy keeps the worst of reddit on reddit.
just look at the shadowban sub, they are in the same situation. also unbannings by reddit seem very rare, like the admin actually unbans you. its less than<1% appeal rate out of how many posts are made. the admins are the only ones that physically unbans people, while thier AI bans people. and how many admins are there working on reddit compared to how many appeals that go through. i suspect the admins have a way of filter out majority of appeals(hences ghost rejections)
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It mostly makes me sad because of what is gone. For a while Reddit was a force for good in my life. Things like /r/place were fascinating.
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.
Welcome ❤️
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.
Dude, that use our garbage app to continue pop up -is- fucking obnoxious. Fuck Reddit.
took you long enough XD, IDK of anyone has already told you but there’s a tool to migrate all your subreddits to similar communities, and a script to overwrite all your comments for privacy’s sake.
There’s also a great community finder tool you should check out, on this side any lemmy instance can sub to any community on any other lemmy instance so you may want to subscrive to several communities with the same theme in more than one instance.
This is one of them
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
This is another: https://sub.rehab/
Thats actually so useful. Such community finder tools should be more widely known, as I think this aspect can be one of the more challenging things on fedi.
