I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it’s crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.

Unfortunately now we’re going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like “TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023” to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.

  • @LlamaSutra@sh.itjust.works
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    The fact is that there is some useful info that only is on Reddit. No shame in looking that stuff up since that’s where it is.

    The main thing is to stop using Reddit as your go-to time waster/doom scrolling app

      • @LlamaSutra@sh.itjust.works
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        Tbh the lack of people and content here has limited my doom scrolling tremendously.

        Also helps that everyone here is like a kid on their first day of high school or college. Zero toxicity! 😎

        • @electroskunk@lemmy.world
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          Give it time. The toxic trolls will soon realize they’re all just talking to each other and come to the fediverse for fresh meat.

          • @LlamaSutra@sh.itjust.works
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            I don’t think trolls think that hard. It’s all for instant gratification. There are few dedicated and motivated trolls. It’s a low effort sort of deal.

      • @Inferno4418@programming.dev
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        Actually for the first time I’m contributing now, on reddit I tried a few times but I never liked it, and never did more than liking.

      • @kadu@lemmy.world
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        There are also lots of people using Shreddit to remove their entire log of comments.

        I’m debating whether or not to do that with my account… I have several comments with solutions to specific tech issues, documentation on specific things. At the same time, I feel less and less comfortable with Reddit benefiting from information users provided for free.

        • @franzfurdinand@lemmy.world
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          Grab those comments and repost them in a place where you are more comfortable. You can keep that knowledge out there without needing to keep your account if you don’t want to. Some of those apps actually give you your comment history in a file when they’re done.

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          I’ve been on the fence about wiping my account as well. It’s just hard for me - my history, wholesome interaction with users, friends made, how many people I’ve helped, I’ve written a few guides. Man it just sucks. (the largest guide I’ve written, for Vindictus, isn’t kept up to date so doesn’t make sense to repost, but also I put in sooooooo much effort into it and I’m really proud of it. maybe I’ll download and save as a .doc or something)

          I think I just need to hear someone’s stance on it, hear their points, and be persuaded

          I also need to figure out -when- to do that if I end up doing it. I assume before the 30th, but I’m not sure if some have started doing it already, and why

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            Request your data. Upload the contents wherever you please. https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request

            It’s not worth continuing to bring attention to Reddit as a platform when we can export the meaningful stuff and host it elsewhere that actually values the community itself rather than the monetary income that the users could provide.

        • @tango_octogono@beehaw.org
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          Honestly? ChatGPT (4) is basically a stackoverflow 2.0. It’s my goto when I want help with specific problems. There are alternative options, is what I mean.

          I deleted all my comments on Reddit. I do not want them to benefit from my knowledge even if it might inconvenience someone else

          • @Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
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            The big problem with chatGTP is that you never can be sure that it’s right, you need to check it. On reddit and sites like it, you can see the amount of upvotes, which shows you if they are right or not.

            • @juniper_ghost@beehaw.org
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              I have seen a lot of highly upvoted comments on reddit which were very, very wrong.

              I still use reddit for help on things. But for topics that I’m less knowledgeable about (so I can’t gauge the accuracy myself), I try to just take everything with a grain of salt.

              • @Gork@beehaw.org
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                It helps that if something is wrong on Reddit, another redditor usually points it out since there are many eyes on any particular thread.

              • flatbield
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                Yes, I always enjoyed getting down voted for the correct answer.

            • Jaluvshuskies
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              One of my favorite parts about reddit is people will always be there to call out your BS, whether it be via downvotes or a comment. I always appreciated that because more times than not, they will tell them they’re wrong and explain why, sometimes even with sources. A lot of the time, they redirect people to better sources of information, like a telegram group about a custom android rom

              Of course, this isn’t true 100% of the time, not even downvoted comment is wrong - like the other person commented, it’s fair to take it with a grain of salt

              That’s why my solution for this is to research a topic EXTENSIVELY by reading tons of threads and comments about it, put them all together in my head and consider them all, and then decide on the best outcome/answer based on all the research combined. That way, I don’t just rely on 1 person’s response and hope they’re right. For most things though, them being wrong might not even make a huge negative impact

              I’ve found that Redditors also generally have our backs - they warn us about stuff to do or not to do, that companies don’t warn us about because it would otherwise profit them

        • @NovoDuck@beehaw.org
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          If you don’t have too many maybe consider posting them on Lemmy as new posts before deleting them? Keeps the information discoverable and helps populate Lemmy with good content, while giving Reddit the middle finger - TRIPLE WIN!

        • @Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
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          Really? Doesn’t google and similar search engines use web crawlers, outside of the devloper API of reddit? Or is that different for reddit?

          • @lovesyouandhugsyou@beehaw.org
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            Currently yes, but I’d imagine they’re also going to disallow crawlers via robots.txt or what’s to stop OpenAI and friends from acquiring the corpus that way? Though of course that assumes this whole thing is really thought through which might be a big assumption on my part…

            • @Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
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              I think they will probably whitelist google’s and microsoft’s webcrawlers, seeing as it’s kinda a huge source of traffic for them. But I’m far from an expert in this field XD

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      The fact is that there is some useful info that only is on Reddit.

      I mean reddit has become a insanely huge knowledge base for all sorts of technical problems and other topics. I’ve searched with site:reddit.com so many times for problem solving.

    • @rarkgrames@lemmy.world
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      I think this is exactly right. I plan to use info available on reddit as reference material if needs be, but I will no longer be posting and therefore creating more content for reddit to sell on in the future.

      • @LlamaSutra@sh.itjust.works
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        Personally it feels like working for free by posting on Reddit. Id rather create content about my hobbies here where no one is making money off of it.

  • @Mia@feddit.de
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    Muscle memory is also hard to break. I had to remove Apollo from my homescreen :D

    • billwashere
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      I know the feeling. I had to put it in a folder “Do not use”. It’s like the first rhing I check in the morning. This lemmy thing has potential. I miss Apollo so much though. Jesus if Christian ported Apollo to use a lemmy backend I’m not sure I’d even notice it wasn’t Reddit. 😀

      • @pm_me_your_happiness
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        I put Discord in its place, my muscle memory has been opening it all morning.

    • @kbtaco
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      Did the same! Now I don’t have to think twice before clicking it.

    • @relevants@feddit.de
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      I made a shortcut automation in iOS to close Apollo as soon as it’s opened. Works & has caught me in my habit a few times already. lmao

    • nii236
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      I keep unlocking my phone then opening Apollo, then realising what day it was then locking my phone again.

      In a constant endless loop.

  • @nottheengineer@feddit.de
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    Google has been pretty much useless lately because it just spits out this SEO spam (probably all written by LLMs, that’s the only way to explain why it’s never happened before but does happen now), so losing reddit as one of the best sources of non-AI-generated information would set us back a lot.

    What we need is the current state of reddit, but frozen in time and just as searchable as reddit is right now. And since reddit won’t want to lose SEO, they will be open to scraping.

  • @altruisticfix@vlemmy.net
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    I spent some time on mastodon, squabbles, kbin and vlemmy today subscribing… it helped seeing many of the same communities in them. I’m 60… so I know younger minds are nimble enough to make themselves comfortable elsewhere.

    What I’m interested in seeing is if others are committed and tenacious enough to stand their ground - outside of Reddit. One thing I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older… things change, and sometimes fighting over turf leaves the winner a ruined playground with bad memories for everybody.

    • @ultimate_question@lemmy.world
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      The key is amassing a large enough audience of people who want something new, not just people who want a 1:1 replacement for reddit. There’s no way lemmy will be able to compete in content volume but I think the idea of “non corporate” social media will be attractive to people

  • @catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca
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    It’ll take time. I think eventually we’ll have enough knowledge on Reddit alternatives like Lemmy where we can add “lemmy” to our search strings instead of “reddit”.

    • CaptainBlagbird
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      The problem with that is, that not all instances use “Lemmy” or even “feddit” in the URL.

        • @craftmyne@beehaw.org
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          Sparks an idea, I briefly remember google or some search engine letting you search for forums, a browser extension which did this for a few different larger forums and then aggregated the results could yield a similar result.

            • @Banjo@beehaw.org
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              I really like kagi and use the Orion browser. But after trialing a month’s subscription, I just couldn’t justify the additional cost. Their lowest tier just doesn’t have enough search’s for my monthly usage. It does put into perspective how many pointless searches one can do when searches are ‘free’. Each time one conducts a search, you are spinning up a machine somewhere in the world, multiply that by X and all that wasted resource becomes clear.

            • @provisional@lemmy.sdf.org
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              Nice to see Kagi get mentioned!

              I’ve been using Kagi for about a month now, and I love the quality of results you get. I’d say it’s still a niche product for people who need to do a lot of searches but can’t be bothered to dig through commercialized ad-driven SEO’d crap. I haven’t used the personalization features like lenses much, although it’s useful for finding PDFs and answers to programming questions.

              What do you think about Kagi?

              • @renard_roux@beehaw.org
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                Never heard of it, just went to have a look and they had a “give it a try” button with a “best headphones” example. Note the very first result. Given the context of this thread, pretty funny 😅

    • @kronicmage@lemmy.ca
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      We all have to do our part to talk about the products and services we use here on Lemmy. Does anyone know of a good community similar to /r/buyitforlife on the fediverse?

  • @Swintoodles@beehaw.org
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    I feel like we need a Redditor’s Anonymous community lol.

    Hi I’m Swintoodles and I’ve tried to open reddit 3 times this morning. The site is sparse, so I only browsed for 20 minutes, but I know I can get better!

      • @Quoicessa@sh.itjust.works
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        I downloaded two news apps and put them where my Reddit icon used to be and it’s not a bad move because it means I read news instead of just checking comments on news.

        • @AGTMADCAT@infosec.pub
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          Yeah I was thinking of using Perun’s referral link to Ground News, and sticking it in that spot. Probably only after the end of the month though.

    • @Ergonomic_Keyboard@sh.itjust.works
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      I have set a 0 minute timer on Boost and Infinity, so I can’t navigate to reddit. On the first day of blackout I had to open reddit to try and find the name for lemmy, squabbles and raddle so I had some alternatives as I couldn’t remember them!

      I have opened and closed youtube way too many times. It’s been tough. I even went to 4chan after many year last night. A real blast from the past.

      Full relapse yesterday.

      I’m hoping to do better today.

      We so need a RedditsAnonymous!

      -edit- I said on the first day I went to reddit… but it’s only been one day!! wow. that’s embarrassing lol

      • @boobas@beehaw.org
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        It’s going to take time to reposition, but for the long haul this is the best course of action, personally I’ve uninstalled and blocked - but I do miss some of the subreddits from before.

        This community seems to be in its early steps, so every contribution means progress, and sooner rather than later we’ll be back to where we want to be!

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    I’m using a pi-hole on my network and I added reddit to the ‘blocked list’ to cut down on myself clicking the links. I should find a way to filter out the links from my search results easily, but this works for now.

  • @farados@vlemmy.net
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    It is a shame because there is so much knowledge on reddit that can be lost. Whenever I had a problem I would append reddit to my google search. Bug fixes for games, advice on purchases etc.

    • FujiTive
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      Me too, it will be difficult to fix that fucking bug that just you and one lost redditor has experienced lol

    • @fiah@discuss.tchncs.de
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      perhaps some lunatic out there will try preserving some of that in the fediverse, although I guess it will be nigh impossible to separate the quality content from the mountains of shit

      edit: of course they’re already on it: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/142l1i0/archiveteam_has_saved_over_108_billion_reddit/

      ArchiveTeam has been archiving Reddit posts for a while now, but we are running out of time. So far, we have archived 10.81 billion links, with 150 million to go.
      Recent news of the Reddit API cost changes will force many of the top 3rd party Reddit apps to shut down. This will not only affect how people use Reddit, but it will also cause issues with many subreddit moderation bots which rely on the API to function. Many subreddits have agreed to shut down for 48 hours on June 12th, while others will be gone indefinitely unless this issue is resolved. We are archiving Reddit posts so that in the event that the API cost change is never addressed, we can still access posts from those closed subreddits.

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        Yeah I’ve seen that. My only hope is that it is easily searchable. Not much help for most for the data to be archived in a non-accessible format.

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          well maybe they could just put it on one read only lemmy instance, restrict access to anything that isn’t a crawler and let google/bing/duckduckgo solve that problem for us

    • @gifferqqq@beehaw.org
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      I know it’s kinda irreplaceable. I think I will stop mindless browsing Reddit but will still go there occasionally when I’m looking for specific advice.

      • @hadrian@beehaw.org
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        I’d be interested to know from someone more tech-savvy whether googling advice, and then clicking on the cached version, still counts as viewing reddit. Because I’d ideally still like to append reddit to my google searches without giving them ad views.

        AKA if someone monetises advice given for free, we should be able to freely access it.

      • lavender dreams
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        This will be how I use it as well. Reddit usually tends to have the most concise, up-to-date answers for a lot of questions that I have about most my hobbies. Especially video games.

        That will hopefully change, but it was such a good way to basically guarantee I found the information I actually wanted.

    • @butter@lemmy.jamestrey.com
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      Those were all the best groups. I’ve seen a few of knowledge-based reddits setting to read-only instead of private, so they’re still searchable.

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    Quitting Reddit’s hard, but it’s heartening to see just how many people are posting from different instances here! I’ve got to admit, even after Mastadons limited success, before today I never seriously thought that federated social media would actually ever work. It just seemed to complicated for average person to grok.

    Here we all are though! Decentralizing the decision making for who gets to post and host, what gets seen and what doesn’t, seems to be worth fighting for. For enough of us at least to make this corner of the internet interesting for a while.

    I’ve got a question though, are there any non technical people here? If you are interested in technology do you know non technical people who are participating in the black out?

    • @Jenga@beehaw.org
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      I think a Reddit type platform lends itself better to federation than something like Twitter. Reddit is already split up into sub communities so it’s easier to digest vs. Mastadon/Twitter meant to be one big conversation.

      Your question about non-technical savoy folks being on here is valid and there’s probably not many. But Reddit also started out like that and it took many years before it became mainstream. Federated serves are a new thing, even for the technological literate, so I suspect it will take a while to permeate into casual internet users but it will happen in the future.

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        I wonder if you could design an instance to completely hide the federated aspect by default. So far I’ve barely needed to think about the federation, it feels a lot like just Reddit.

      • @prlang@beehaw.org
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        Yeah I can see a path for this ramping up slowly, especially given the horrible mismanagement of places like Reddit. Even if they weather the storm of the blackout, given the official app, it seems like they’re just chasing the same infinite dumb stream of memes design that places like Facebook and Tiktok have already embraced. Probably because that’s where the money is? I don’t know.

        The more niche communities are always what made me hang out at Reddit though! I’d bet they continue to alienate and marginalize them enough that more people continually jump ship over the next couple of years. I do hope Beehaw and other spaces like it succeed in becoming a non-profit and truly community driven, and the web decentralizes itself again.

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      it’s heartening to see just how many people are posting from different instances here!

      it just works! I don’t know what happens with this reply because I guess beehaw.org is offline right now, but I figure you’ll eventually see it? That this is possible with an organic collection of instances is pretty damn cool, and I hope it keeps on working as more people pile on

      • @pivotraze@infosec.pub
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        I’ll say that sometimes, I click the “Reply” button after writing my reply and it just sits there, seemingly loading forever. Generally has been doing that when a thread was on beehaw.org or lemmy.ml

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          so the communities that run on a specific instance are dead in the water if that instance is frozen? I thought that maybe the other instances might continue exchanging posts regardless of whether the original instance is currently online

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            Honestly, I’m not sure. I would hope it could continue with other non-frozen Instances. But in my very limited experience so far, I’ve seen it do that (click Reply, and turn into a spinning circle) a few times. Just never finishes.

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      it’s heartening to see just how many people are posting from different instances here!

      How do you see that?

      It just seemed to complicated for average person to grok.

      Oh, yeah definitely. I’m still struggling to wrap my head around the most basic things. Like, initially I created multiple accounts until I realized I could actually just search for stuff in other instances.

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    I had to move Sync off the homepage of my phone to avoid the muscle memory of just clicking it mindlessly. I have caught myself once or twice wanting to type it into the URL.

  • @BeyonDespair@lemmy.world
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    It doesn’t help the fact that depending of the question, every single answer ends up being only on reddit and nowhere else.

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      I have this problem because Google hasn’t been as good the past few years unless I append “reddit” to my search. During all of this going on, I’ve been trying to be diligent about viewing the cached version instead, but it’s not always available.

    • @Synapse8260@beehaw.org
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      This is one of the problems for me. I frequently search tech issues and more often than not, a lot of links are from Reddit.

      • @BeyonDespair@lemmy.world
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        Really specific issues are more often than not only found in reddit, and that’s not even all, for me at least; a lot of those answers in reddit are short and to the point. Sometimes you search for the solution of a problem and find posts on websites filled with irrelevant information that you don’t really have the time/patience to read. . .

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          I’m worried, not all but large enough group of Reddit users are already deleting their account, and with that are gone years of knowledge and good answer threads using the tool that retroactively edits your comments.

          They have their full right, of course, but it will be a net loss for the future.

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            There will be archives made available by various groups I’m sure. And that’s assuming Reddit doesn’t just go undelete all those. Either way I’d guess that certain subreddits/communities will end up finding their new home here or elsewhere and over time the information that shows up on reddit will become more and more stale

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              If you delete an account now, all the threads it ever commented on will lose context and become useless unless archived already. That’s the situation we’re in, people are deleting their accounts without thinking about all the content that they have contributed to and destroying it.

              • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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                I think their mindset is that they don’t want Reddit to profit off of those contributions. I understand that, but personally I won’t be nuking my account, even though RiF is the only way I really browse the site.

        • @Synapse8260@beehaw.org
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          Agree. Here’s hoping that eventually we shall see the same amount and quality of information in the fediverse.

  • @GraceGH@beehaw.org
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    Yep, same thing happened to me. Tried to figure out what the Fragile modifier does in Trackmania but I couldn’t find the answer anywhere. /r/trackmania is shutdown (based) and i literally couldn’t find the answer anywhere. I still don’t even know what it does…

  • @curlygirl@lemmy.world
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    Idk how helpful this is, but LibRedirect basically redirects all reddit links (and other websites like youtube, twitter, tiktok) in your browser to a privacy front-end that doesn’t do any tracking or ads or things like that which is better than using the official reddit site.

    • @RaoulDuke@lemmy.nz
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      Thanks for this. It would be cool if it was available for FF on mobile. I suppose it will stop working for Reddit after the API changes.

      If my programming was a bit better I’d make an extension that redirects to the most recent archive.org capture. That would keep working after the API changes and keep me from actually visiting Reddit. Maybe I should learn how.

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        I also use Firefox mobile and wish it was available there. I know I would be interested in what you suggested, just want to give those sites less foot traffic.

    • @donio@beehaw.org
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      Redirector is another option for this. It’s a generic tool so it doesn’t have baked in rules, you have to specify your own. I use ^https://(old\\.|www\\.)?reddit.com/r/(.*) for the source pattern and https://your-favorite-libreddit-instance/r/$2 as the destination.

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    I had to remove my reddit bookmark to break the habit today. Its been… rough… I keep opening my email instead.

    Apparently I visited reddit 18000 times this browser install.

    • Saik0
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      13993 times for me… I never even had a bookmark for Reddit.

      What’s worse is that I tend to just keep the tabs open I frequent indefinitely and this current browser instance of Firefox is at the most 5 months old since it’s a new laptop, and I primarily used RIF on my phone… So 13993 is a stupidly low number compared to how much time I actually spent on Reddit.

      Looking at those numbers it hard to say that it wasn’t a terrible addiction.