Yeah, browsing my own curated subs on old.reddit with RES and uBlock Origin is nowhere near as bad as people are making reddit out to be. Don’t get me wrong, reddit IS shit, but my experience isn’t the kind of shit people say it is.
I always used to use a 3PA that had no ads or recommendations, just my own curated sub list, and I honestly loved that. There were definitely echo chambers but things worked well for me as long as I stayed conscious to that. Then when the APIpocalypse happened I browsed reddit on the web and in their official app for the first time in almost ten years and just noped right the fuck off.
At one point in my feed it went:
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Like, only 1/6 items were things I had actually asked to see. It was atrocious. Default reddit is absolutely cancer now, and I really struggle to empathise with people who are still using it vanilla without any extensions or domain changes.
Yeah, browsing my own curated subs on old.reddit with RES and uBlock Origin is nowhere near as bad as people are making reddit out to be. Don’t get me wrong, reddit IS shit, but my experience isn’t the kind of shit people say it is.
I always used to use a 3PA that had no ads or recommendations, just my own curated sub list, and I honestly loved that. There were definitely echo chambers but things worked well for me as long as I stayed conscious to that. Then when the APIpocalypse happened I browsed reddit on the web and in their official app for the first time in almost ten years and just noped right the fuck off.
At one point in my feed it went:
Like, only 1/6 items were things I had actually asked to see. It was atrocious. Default reddit is absolutely cancer now, and I really struggle to empathise with people who are still using it vanilla without any extensions or domain changes.
Ironically the website in Firefox mobile and ublock origin works better than the mobile app. Still shit but better
I mean you’ve gone to great lengths to hide all the shit.
That doesn’t mean it’s not there.
The day they finally kill old.reddit is the day I give it up completely. Pretty much only go when looking for something specific even more anyway.
Same here, for sure. I do lemmy on my phone and reddit on my laptop, I’ll just switch to lemmy on both when that day comes.