I was one of the people who deleted their reddit account when 3rd party apps were being pressured out.
I am just wondering how the official app is now. I visit a page that has no lemmy alternative every now and then.
I have no plans to post, upvote or downvote. I just want an easy way to see a couple of pages sometimes. Currently doing this in a mobile browser, requiring I not wipe history. Is there a better way to do this?
If you only want to look an not interact, I’m using Stealth. No account needed and you can still follow your preferred subreddits. You can’t post or comment, of course. Also no upvoting, but you can mark posts for your own later use. Also, you can have multiple sets of subreddits.
It seems android only and looks like a cloud storage platform app. It looks complicated :( Browser bookmarks for now :( It’s clunky but is manageable if a curate it to a very small number of groups.
I just realised you probably can use RSS. I think it works, one channel per subreddit.
the userbase has become degenerate and the site is now unusable due to lack of moderation
the better way is to stay far, far away
So the official app is worse than ever. Moderation is worse. More censorship too? I guess I’d just memorize the few pages, and stay on a mobile browser.
Your account will be severely restricted for several weeks, that is if you aren’t instantly shadowbanned, and when you are able to post a good percentage of the accounts you’ll be talking to will be bots.
Bots! :( Not planning to post anything. I’ll just use browser bookmarks as another lemmy user suggested.
The official app is dogshit. Riddled with bugs and oversaturated with ads. You can turn off certain ad settings but they weasel around them to keep them on (such as home feed recommendations and targeted advertising).
If you really really want to browse reddit though, I’d recommend using one of the remaining third party apps such as Infinity. Building an API key is a little involved but pretty easy; I was able to do it and I barely know what an API even is. And you won’t see ads or any of their distracting animated awards or such nonsense.
Also, with the way reddit is now, be prepared for a LOT of censorship. It’s gotten really bad over there.
I will try to research this. I just wanted something simple. That’s why I thought of asking here. Thanks for the suggestion.
The official app is still shit, the mods are mostly absolute zealots, and the Admin uses so many AI tracking tools that if you get banned from a sub for some minor issue, you can soon find yourself get banned from the site forever. Which is why i’m here :-)
I was on it for about 13 years, got banned from AskUK for using ChatGPT as a spell checker, then got permanently banned from reddit for using a throwaway account, which was flagged as ban evasion.
That’s horrible! In the past, I got severely downvoted for asking about headsets on a group about lossless audio or something. Getting banned for what you described is unreasonable.
I was a bit annoyed for a while. I made it worse for myself by trying to actually evade my ban using a VPN etc, but I hadn’t appreciated how sophisticated they are these days and once you’re banned you’re banned for life.
It’s odd to me, as when I first started using it throwaway accounts were common and it was a fun place to an anonymously comment on stuff. I might try and rejoin when I next upgrade my phone, but I understand they track your Google account and various other identifiers so maybe it’s to call it a day.
The app is shit. If you really want to you can run modified versions of the old clients.
old.reddit and browser bookmarks? There’s nothing I check frequently, but when digging on something and reddit comes up as a source, this is what I do.
Yes, browser book marks for now :( I haven’t recreated an account yet.
The official app is still shit.
I still use Reddit for some niche subs. I would advise on using something like continuum to browse anonymously.
Otherwise, create an account and use it to save some posts to view later. Creating an account requires an API key now so search online on how to do that.
are you on android? use redreader, it’s very good. i’d say it’s actually better than most lemmy apps…
I have both an android and an iphone. i am using Voyager for lemmy.
Try it? Google it? Who cares?
