• @[email protected]
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      Its been 2 years already aye. I was so optimistic at the time. “Finally I’ll be able to stop doom scrolling”

      How innocent I was

    • @[email protected]
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      I actually continued to use a 3rd party app up until a few months ago. I created a Lemmy account when all that happened 2 years ago, but I didn’t use it much. Glad to see it’s been improved, well until recently finding out the creators of Lemmy support Russia.

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        That’s the beauty of an idea, though. The worst people can have good ideas and good people can benefit from them. In certain cases, they can use the ideas against the creator themselves. I just consider it a fact of life and avoid giving those people my money directly where possible.

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        Who cares? Lemmy is open. There’s already many alternatives that are connected, mbin, piefed, etc.

        Edit: I don’t agree with their views, but this platform is now bigger than them, and they designed it to be that way. I have to respect that.

      • @[email protected]
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        Yeah, it’s disappointing to know some of the things the Lemmy devs support but this being a federated platform means you don’t really have to be on Lemmy to interact with the posts and users here. Piefed and Mbin work just as well and are fully independent projects so you could try those instead.

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          It kind of makes that people with such strong/extreme views would have enough initiative to start it though. We need to remember that Lemmy development was going on for years before most us took notice.

      • @[email protected]
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        Who cares what they support ? If their code is good, that’s all that should matter. Because that allows you to disagree with them on other instances even though their home instance is heavily moderated.

    • @[email protected]
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      Red Reader is an open source, ad free, third party Reddit app that has been allowed to continue free use of the API due to its usage amongst the disabled community.

      I’ve been using it for nearly a decade & continues to get ignored by folks for some reason.

      It’s also in the official Play Store, I believe.

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        I use RedReader sporadically for browsing Reddit. I like it’s compact UI style and customizability. Even when I had proper paid Boost for Reddit back in the day, somehow, the UI of RedReader made it more intuitive for me to use it.

        I think one can technically use Boost still via patching it, but it’s a grey area and not worth going after when RedReader exists.

        Either case, the official Reddit app has to be purposefully coded to be as unoptimized and useless as possible. The bloat, the wasted white space; it all stands testament to the travesty that is modern software design.

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    The real story is buried in there:

    Reddit is going to ask for a bit more identifying information from its users, too.

    Yeah not going to happen.

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      why does it matter once you’ve been banned for saying something and they won’t tell you why and you can’t appeal the decision?

      they’re actively moving users OFF of their platform.

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            They’re both accelerationists, which is a doomsday cult that wants to rule over the ashes of a world they help destroy.

            Edit: And white supremacist Nazis. Can’t forget that part.

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              wow, happy isn’t the word to describe how i feel to see that other people are aware of accelerationism. to me, it’s by far the biggest threat to society as a whole. these rich cunts are so fucked up, and the French had the right idea about heads with thoughts like that.

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              new word for the English language, and i’m sorry: humilijactulation

              edit - i forgot to say i like yours more

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                  i guess i’ll just have to change the name i gave to my hard little man nipples. that’s okay. any suggestions?

                  edit - i’m far too out of the loop to be able to make things out of stuff now, but it would be really funny if someone started a campaign to rename men’s nipples.

                  edit2 - i’d feel like an ass if i didn’t make a suggestion, too. so… napples?

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              you know, i hate the guy but i’d still say something nice to him if he’d give me some of his spare change. and so would just about anyone. but this is an obvious problem. jesus christ, for a country that’s spent the past two decades preaching national security, it’s funny to see what’s happening now. i’m sure the fall of Rome was much less funny (but i guess they didn’t have tiktok back then either - edit - or memes)

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        Same, that’s why I’m here. I got fed up with repeated 7-day bans for ‘promoting violence’ when I was doing no such thing. Then I appeal it and they’re like ‘no you promoted violence’.

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          i’ve already done that, too, with all of the meaningful stuff i contributed. sad, really. but not, really.

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    The only reason I’m here in the first place is because it’s ridiculously obvious that they’re killing old reddit soon. Every time they add some new bullshit feature it breaks our reddit just a little more and it becomes less and less usable. Meanwhile new reddit is also becoming less and less usable as they try to make it Facebook 2.0. It’s all getting enshittified very quickly.

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    If I may say that I hope more people support Lemmy. We need to get away from Reddit and it will be difficult. I’m kinda new to Lemmy and I plan on donating.

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    My copium is that the website was initially built in a way where they can’t delete old reddit without breaking it.

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    When they say “people,” does that mean, 1, 20, 8 million, or what? They will define it and I’m sure this is a way of saying they’re getting rid of it so there isn’t a grand exodus.

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      Yea this sounds like preparing to make excuses and claim “no one was using it” (aka less than 1 billion users). I’m expecting it to be removed in 2026.

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    96 days ago

    I only stayed on Reddit as long as I did because of Old Reddit. New Reddit simply isn’t worth it.

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      I never cared about new reddit vs old reddit, because it always looked the same on Baconreader. I couldn’t continue after I lost that. I really wish there was a Lemmy fork of it, it was my favorite.

      Connect is pretty good so far, not quite the same.

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      yup. New reddit is a cancer. Old reddit may be old and antiquated, but it’s a SHITLOAD better than new reddit. Not that i use either anymore

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      old.reddit is literally the only thing that keeps me coming back. i hope they kill it. i’m sick of scrolling for ten minutes just to find a post worth clicking on. i’ve got netflix for shit like that.

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    I guess this does matter to me, because every time i see new reddit, I take the requisite 10 seconds to retype the URL and change to old reddit. I never log in anymore, but I do make sure its old reddit.

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    What a liar. I hope that pasty cat f***** suffers a slowly from feline AIDS. Seeing as he’s the reason the feline population even caught it.