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.
I agree, I wish lemmy has millions of users
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.
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.
welcome here, over here is chill
Ymmv
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 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.
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.
I left when they permabanned two accounts.
Fun Fact: Both accounts are now back. 🤣
I got a comment deleted for saying Thailand should punish violent Israeli tourists
Okee dokee
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
