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submitted 7 months ago by alsu2launda@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

Old reddit still works, but trends don't look good.

Sadly the death is near.

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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Turn on "request desktop site" and that goes away. It's strictly for mobile users to force more data mining.

That said. Just stop using that fucking shithole, please

[-] alsu2launda@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

Some of the valuable discussions are present there in old threads,

I ended up there from purely organic search results.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 30 points 7 months ago

I still pop onto Reddit for the same reasons. There's no point in limiting your ability to work and learn by avoiding Reddit links altogether. Especially if you're trying to make the internet a better place here, knowledge is helpful

As for the mobile Reddit popups, I added a few ublock origin filters that seem to be helping. See this other post

https://lemmy.ca/post/10958482

[-] doitforthelolz@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I still use reddit for troubleshooting tech stuff and this is super helpful. That popup is so annoying, thanks.

[-] mysoulishome@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Absolutely. Often there are no fucking useful search results on Google at all besides Reddit threads…

[-] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Reddit has always been one of the most useful sources of information for a very long time. Hell the only sources I could get information for troubleshooting the PC upgrades I'm going through are from Reddit.

And that's basically all Reddit is for me now, the end result of a Google search looking for specific information.

[-] Veraxus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

If you use Kagi you can block the entire site and let better results float up.

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 3 points 7 months ago

Create another bastion of knowledge and people will.

Spez won, we lost, learn to accept the things you cannot change

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

He said, on a rapidly growing reddit alternative.

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 1 points 7 months ago

He already cashed out. he won

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Are you on Lemmy for money? I have bad news for you...

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 1 points 7 months ago

I doubt that there is much money in a social media started by communists.

He destroyed your head, after that the only goal could possibly be to keep him from making money from doing so.

Like it or not he won.

It’s like 9/11, by every measurable objective the terrorists won.

It sucks to admit but why lie

[-] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

We also won, for we have gained a new profit-free open source platform that's currently growing to become the reddit we always wanted.

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago
[-] alsu2launda@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Great, even works on mobile

[-] FrostKing@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

If you're using Ublock Origin, you can use their "element zapper" to get rid of it. Also, it took me a minute to figure out, to exit "element zapper" mode on a phone, swipe right twice

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 6 points 7 months ago
[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

old.reddit.com.

use it while it works. if you have server power to spare install the archive warrior to help archive it while we can

[-] Manalith@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago

You can also just hit the view desktop site button in settings, at least on Firefox.

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

If you really want to use Reddit, download an old copy of a third-party app (Boost still works) and patch it with ReVanced.

This does not work on iOS due to platform limitations

[-] IamAnonymous@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago
  • works on iOS if you sideload or jailbreak. I used a patched Apollo app for a few weeks.
[-] Nawor3565 1 points 7 months ago

Sync works too! This is what I do. Unfortunately it's only a matter of time before reddit/imgur/some other site changes something and the app breaks, but for now the old reddit apps still seem to all be working okay.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Give redlib a go. It's a fork of Libreddit that doesn't get ratelimited.

https://farside.link/redlib

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Sadly the death is nowhere near. 95% of people will just download the app, which is why these types of walls work.

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago
[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 2 points 7 months ago
[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 months ago

Somtimes reddit with blur your screen when you go into a subreddit

[-] mr_satan@monyet.cc 1 points 7 months ago

I still use Boost, when I need something from Reddit. The only workaround I needed was to make a private subreddit.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

use old.reddit.com

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