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Funny how they don't even pretend there's any logic to it. If you can view it in the app, then the content has been reviewed after all...? Clearly just a way to enforce app usage.
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2024
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They don't say it, but you can also go to old.reddit and there's none of those stupid warnings.
Still blocks my vpn though
It's inconsistent for mine. Sometimes I will get in no problem, sometimes I bounce off until I change IP/location, and sometimes I get hard blocked.
They want ad revenue and the app is the only place they can be confident you’re not blocking.
We're expecting a giant influx of users when the popular workaround, old.reddit.com (perhaps with RES to make it less outdated), inevitably gets shut down. Please try to make Lemmy a worthwile space in the meantime so that they stay!
As long as they’re fans of trans positive meme dumps and endless half-serious slap fights about distros, they'll feel right at home.
Don't forget the Rule 34 manga and rhetoric of not sexualising anything. Also the college kid Marxists.... and Linux cults... And figuring out liberalism and "American liberals" are polar opposites. Basically avoid .ml And obviously don't let anyone know your skin colour, gender, or sexual preferences if they're vanilla. And support all war that's against Russia. I think that's it- Oh, and don't reply to the same person more than twice in a thread.
Apart from that, they'll feel right at home.
Ah, yeah, and obv use Thunder.
You forgot to mention the furry porn... so much furry porn...
What is thunder?
It's an open source Lemmy app for both iOS and Android
Is it better than voyager?
I've used both and have been daily driving Voyager for months, I'd say they're both great to the point it's a matter of taste. May as well give it a go if you're curious!
For Lemmy apps, it's best to try a few for a week or so each—theres a few good'nes—and you land on the one you like. I was just plugging Thunder because it's sort of like the Linux of Lemmy apps. All the cool underground kids froth on it and those that don't use it couldn't give a fuck, because they don't know any better, man!
They won't even notice anything changed
...you also must despise Trump, and if you don't, you will.
And please actively remind people to remain civil. We can be better than Reddit in so many ways. I believe!
I think Lemmy is and will be quite good at remaining civil because the questionable content makers use their own instances and get defederated. The most edgy community federated with the main cluster I found is [email protected]. It features cryptic posts that presumably make sense if you engage in the decentralized (IRC? Telnet??) discourse channels of sdf.org and some appear to be pro-fascist depending on how you interpret the questionable veil of sarcasm. I don't think it's serious enough to consider defederation because the worst ones get massively downvoted anyway.
If it helps any, those memes go straight over my head.
They're not just staying on those instances tho...
When they get defederated (usually long before) they find a small boutique instance (that's actually valid) but didn't bother to set up any requirements for account creation then make a shit ton of accounts to troll with.
If you ever look at the main modlog you'll see there's a significant amount getting banned on a daily basis.
But they just go make another, and even tho most instances are doing something about it, there's a surprising amount of zombie instances no one will ever change but are still running for some reason and federated with large instances.
Eventually the main ones will need to "prune" a lot of instances, which shouldn't be surprising considering a year ago everyone wanted to federate with everyone.
Imagine just walking thru a city and inviting literally everyone to come hang out at your apartment, even giving them the door code to get I to your building. That's kind of what happened.
Yes. However, we need to solve the chicken-and-egg problem of niche communities. For example, there is no Czech community at all after both the czech-lemmy.eu and kyberpunk.social instances went down. It's only once the communities get going and start appearing in "All/Active" feeds that I'd worry about serious moderation.
It's a tough position to be in for non-English and regional communities. For something like a game you can cross post in both a general videogames community and a more specific one and help people find it, but there's not much of an option for any sort of non-English non-pop culture topic.
Feddit.org is quite active
Jlai.lu has 600 monthly active users on the main community
Reddit is already rate-limiting old.reddit.com traffic. There are already few threads about it.
I joined lemmy just over a year ago when reddit killed its API. I hoped that my favorite subreddit would come here too but it didn't so I wandered back to reddit. I was clinging to old.reddit.com and would probably have stayed around for as long as that lasted. But recently they began requiring email addresses. That was too much and here I am.
Can I ask which subreddit or is it private? I know which communities I miss but I'm curious what communities we need to cultivate for others.
You may ask, yes.
My account still works without an email address.
Well that's not fair.
How are you seeing that an email is required? Is it when you try to post something? My account is banned so I just us it to lurk but I can still log in.
My account is banned. I can still log in and lurk, but not post, upvote, etc. And, as I already said: When I log in to the main site, it says "account permanently banned". When I log in to old reddit, it says "provide an email to reactivate your account".
I hate the fact that reddit has so much valuable data in it, like thousands of extremely niche subreddits and answers to your questions.
I wish someone could just mirror it all
Actually, I found archiveteam's reddit dump. I think we can re-host this on activitypub, as a form of read-only, easy to browse archive.
The data is on archive.org is marked non-downloadable to limit traffic. I emailed archive.org requesting one of the 10GB pieces to experiment with. Fingers crossed
Hi Aesistril,
Thanks for contacting us.
If it is restricted it is not publicly available.
Thanks for using archive.org
Best, Internet Archive Team
I heard that they gave links when you emailed them but nah
There's this torrent if you're interested:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/194k9y4/reddit_dump_files_through_the_end_of_2023/
yooo thanks this is awesome
I cannot stress this enough: if you just want to browse reddit without interacting with anyone and supporting their greedy, stupid bullshit, I highly recommend RDX.
If you absolutely have to read something from reddit and it throws this, just switch to the desktop site instead of mobile.
Desktop doesn't work anymore, gotta use old.reddit now.
Hilarious how their logic completely breaks down when doing that, and they don't even care if you know.
They want you to download the app so they can collect your data and push ads that can't be blocked with browser extensions.
And whenever they want to drop a site-wide ban for any reason, it's easier to punish the whole device instead of fixing issues or pretending that most of the ad viewership doesn't consist of bots.