I have a question. As most of you probably already know, i reached that level on reddit where karma can be converted 1:1 to dollars (not that hard tbh), but here looks like there's no karma to farm? How can I pay my rent?
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2023
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This might be added in an future update? This place will change alot coming months for sure.
I hate the official app with the fire of 1,000 suns. So if my only options are using the official app or leaving the site completely I’m leaving completely✌️
Reddit's official app, and in fact Reddit's official website is a hugely compromised experience, and I suspect the only reason they haven't gone further is that they don't want to push people to the alternatives. However this latest move to restrict the available alternatives seems like the beginning of the end to me and their app and site are only going to get worse.
That's why I'm here at least!
Joined lemmy after getting sick of reddit. The community here feels like a breath of fresh air. But disappointed at the lack of the more niche content (mostly motorsport discussion/news) but am sure that'll change with time.
disappointed at the lack of more niche content
As of now it's down to the lack of participating users in niche subs.
So, glad to have you here! With enough people starting to create discussions on stuff they enjoy this place will get livelier than ever.
Even Reddit had to start somewhere when the ability to comment was added to the site in 2005, you know.
I was half wondering if it was possible/allowed to create a bot account that "mirrors" content from certain subreddits such as r/formula1 to create an automated newsfeed for lemmy users to browse and comment on? I guess even if it were possible it'd rely on using reddit's API which is obviously soon to be a no-go
On Mastodon everyone frowned upon the Twitter mirrors, I suspect it would be the same here.
you soon of a removed, I'm in
You son of a removed, I'm in too.
I'm only a 6 year clubber on Reddit, but using RIF for most of it, couldn't stand how the app was going. Nowadays it's the content as well. Going to be exploring around here now
I'm tired of Reddit anyway. Corporate garbage. Just need more communities and users.
Reddit's official app and new reddit are awful experiences and actively hostile to the user. It's nice to see a site that understands this.
I hate new reddit so much. I just opened it. On my 1440p monitor I see 3 posts. Old reddit I can see 18 posts on one page.
But there's more space for the beautiful ads
There are different layouts available on new reddit, you don't have to use Card, switch to another one, there is even a compact one.
I never understood this argument. I can't read more than one post at a time anyways and images are not immediately visible in the list view. What makes you want 18 posts visible at once?
So you can select the post you want to actually look at instead of having to scroll and scroll to find one that interests you. Like in a classical forum post, essentially.
Agreed. It makes the posts you don't want to see much easier to ignore. Even my favorite subreddits have posts I don't care about, like r/fantasy posts praising Mistnorn for the billionth time.
I don't want giant images in my face right away, either, without warning of what they contain, especially if browsing unfamiliar or large subreddits.
That and I have tendonitis so less scrolling past crap I don't care about means I have less pain / no pain.
About a decade ago, Logitech had this awesome mouse with a freewheel spinning middle mouse. It allowed for a long spin after release and was excellent for up and down scrolling on a large page. Sadly they don't seem to be made anymore. They were really fun.
I mean, it's more rewarding if you put more effort into it.
I don't want to use any app, I want to use the website. However, I'm guessing old.reddit is on the chopping block next and if they get rid of that I'm done. Lemmy's website isn't amazing (why so much whitespace wasted?) but it's a hell of a lot better than new reddit.
Yup. I'm here out of spite 😆
@Rhabuko @amortized_cost
Same. The API business was the push i needed to join the Fediverse. Screw em.
And I would walk five hundred miles
and I would walk five hundred more
just to be the man who walked one thousand more
to get the fuck away from spez
Dat Lemmy puss feels so much tighter tho
I'd rather crawl the 20 extra miles to a new community (and did) than use that app again. It's that bad. The reviews on Google Play are very telling. It's just a buggy mess.
old.reddit.com on a mobile browser is still 100 times better than the "official" reddit app.
Despite it not being available through i.reddit.com, compact mode is still reachable at reddit.com/.i, and I find it even better than old reddit for mobile.
I had no idea. I had never even seen this until today
Always learning ;)
Hopefully reddit won't take it down
tried it out, doesn't seem to actually be usable for anything other than reading the home page not logged in and links thereof. For example I can't https://reddit.com/.i/r/Cricket or similar
The ideal is to append that /.i at the end of the URL. Like so: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/.i
Edit: which also works for login: https://www.reddit.com/login/.i
THANKS! Just in time for it not to matter anymore :-P
hehe x)
Reddit still has a massive legacy worth exploring sometimes, so having a nice way to do it is definitely good. Libreddit and teddit exist as well.
I would actually be willing to pay a small, reasonable monthly fee to not have to see ads and to be able to continue using Boost for Reddit like I have been for the last 7 years with the experience unchanged. What I will not do is pay to use reddit's official app without ads simply because it's going to be the only choice with their horrible fee structure that will kill all third party apps. As soon as they kill Boost, my account there goes dark...
Hey look, a fellow boost refuge.
What I'd actually rather do is have all of reddit pay devs of a federated platform like this one or similar a small amount to have a platform without ads.
I use(d) and love boost! I mostly based the ui in jerboa after it, because it's so beautiful.
Shame it's always been closed source.
Great job man. You've made me forget I've switched sites.
Thanks! <3
This is quite accurate. I've stood up my own lemmy instance... but hitting some pretty basic issues in the process. Not sure its ready for prime time.
Are you using containers + cloud?
The recommended ansible playbook, on a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 VM.
hopefully 21 miles of cromulent posting
it would be amazing if a site could replicate that early day reddit feeling
This is coming close, I gotta admit.
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