Just had the new mobile site inflicted on me, worst reddit update (so far)

Posted by trolldatroll@reddit | RedditAlternatives | View on Reddit | 33 comments

Front pages are now formatted in that weird way they were if you scrolled past the comments on posts, making it never feel like you're actually on the top page of a sub. Everything is infinite scroll now. Long posts are now a sideways scroll box, absolutely deranged! You can no longer click on the image/video thumbnail to expand it to get around the NSFW block. You can't change sort order logged out. You can't change settings logged out. The number of recent subs you've visited has been cut in half. Every post opens in a new tab, which I keep being reminded of when the browser complains about hitting 99 tabs. Page font size has reached it's old man yelling at clouds phase.

Every single change, of which there are many, is worse.

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kdjfsk@reddit

try this

use kiwi browser. it lets you install desktop extensions on this mobile browser
install ublock origin
install reddit enhancement suite, use dark mode.
install reddit sidebar helper (adds a toggle on/off for sidebar)
use old.reddit.com, set in preferences to always use it.

this setup restores sanity to reddit. its the opposite of whatever theyre trying to do.

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DouglasJFalcon@reddit

It's takes all this to make reddit usable yet people say lemmy is too difficult

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kdjfsk@reddit

It's takes all this

kiwi is just a search on play store, click install.

the extensions are just a search on kiwi, click install. h to exxagerat you can do "all this" in 90 seconds. way to exaggerate.

lemmy is stupid as its full of useless idiot communists anyways.

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IRunWithVampires@reddit

I think that’s an exaggeration. I’ve been on there for like 2 months and I’ve not seen this.

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ProvokedGamer@reddit

Yea! In fact, I’ve seen the content on Lemmy actually getting better for the time I’ve been there for. I haven’t seen any commies nor anyone promoting anything like that throughout the whole time I’ve been on Lemmy.

Pretty sure it’s just one of the devs that run Lemmy.ml that are tankies, but I’ve never seen them act like that. Plus, if you don’t like the admins of Lemmy.ml, switch to a different instance, and you’re done. Being able to do that is the whole point of Lemmy.

Honestly, I like Lemmy because I actually have things to say on there that wasn’t already said by someone else, and when I say stuff, I feel actually heard by other people instead of being at the bottom of a thread at 1 upvote with no replies. I spend a lot of time on there.

For anyone who hasn’t tried a specific Reddit alternative of any kind, please try to actually try it instead of just creating an opinion out of what a select few have said about a particular website. I made the mistake of doing that with a different Reddit alternative (Tildes), but now that I’ve tried it, I’m starting to really like it. :) You can’t have an opinion of something you haven’t tried.

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emu314159@reddit

So definitely no Marxists, Maoists, Reds, Pinkos, ComSymps, then? I mean, I'm assuming that's what our esteemed commenter kdifsk was referring to.

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ProvokedGamer@reddit

I mean, there is lemmygrad.ml but most instances defederate from them. If you wanna find them they’re there but they will not show up on any of the popular instances.

I haven’t seen anything relating to them at all

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emu314159@reddit

May have to give it a try. Reddit clearly wants to ultimately eliminate any attention paid to anything but the big, stupid, impossible to actually post to subs, and anyone who doesn't want to treat it like some version of FB can just fuck right off.

Every UI change turns it more into an impersonal widget.

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IRunWithVampires@reddit

Exactly. I found out about Lemmy through a mother forum on the internet and figured I’d give it a shot. Then I found Lemmy’s subreddit and a whole lot of people complaining that the devs are communists. I’ve never seen it, and maybe that’s because I’m on Lemmy.world. No clue. But I think people should indeed give it a shot. I did with Squabbles. Not my favorite, but I still hop on there sometimes. :)

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emu314159@reddit

Ok, now this is interesting. Without my having to actually google this Lemmy, i want to find out more. Like, they're still somehow into Marx? After over a century of proof of bad concept?

You can even go back to the Pilgrims, who tried a communal resource distribution system that almost starved them out, since there was no incentive for farming harder or better.

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IRunWithVampires@reddit

I haven’t been on there in a little while, because there aren’t very good posts, and I don’t even know what to post half the time, but I still think the site is worth something.

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DouglasJFalcon@reddit

Devs of open source software that anyone can independently run and could even fork if it somehow came down to that

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IRunWithVampires@reddit

Yeah, exactly.

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emu314159@reddit

By "idiot communists," wondering what they mean. Probably nothing specific, since that word has been hijacked by the "whatever brigade." People who write on the internet all the time, but seemingly never actually read, so words just mean some vague relationship to something they heard once.

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ContemplatingFolly@reddit

you can do "all this" in 90 seconds.

Nice that you're able to do it n 90 seconds. I sure as hell couldn't. And it helps contribute to an increasingly unique fingerprint on your computer too.

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emu314159@reddit

Yeah, i haven't googled shit about it.

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ContemplatingFolly@reddit

Well, thank god you finally answered me on this.

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emu314159@reddit

I have Reddit on a 1 year delay. Keeps it interesting!

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boxer_dogs_dance@reddit

Some instances are run by tankies, but this is not the whole user community at all, especially after the last two months.

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firebreathingbunny@reddit

Old Reddit isn't conveniently usable in portrait mode.

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kdjfsk@reddit

works fine for me.

the only minor issue is sidebar making text boxes too small to type in, which is solved by the toggling it off with the extension i listed.

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Buritominer@reddit

Literally every mobile site these days are designed to funnel you into the app and it sucks.

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emu314159@reddit

I wouldn't mind if the app didn't suck balls. But I hate the trend in general, I have a goddamn app that lets me view web content, it is called a fucking browser.

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SpotifyIsBroken@reddit

RedditIsBroken

[InsertCorpoSocialMediaSiteAppHere]IsBroken

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KrunkyKreb@reddit

[InsertHoldingTheCorpoSocialMediaSiteAppAccountableForTheirCrimesAgainstConsumers]Should’ve HappenedAlready

If you thought that sounded weird you can’t hide it.

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The green themed views are very nice

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