I have defeated the internet, comrades. The curse is lifted!
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wonderful work comrade
Comrade let me remind you that old.reddit with RES is by far the superior way to read 
on desktop anyway. The new UI is designed to slow people down and make information harder to parse because, in the absence of providing more value, capitalist website designers make their sites harder to navigate so as to drive up total-time-spent for ad metrics (ads that you'll never see because you use uBlock origin).
Let me further remind you that if you are on mobile, third party apps can be patched using ReVanced to still work and provide, again, a better UI with no ads.
There is no reason to ever look at through the -endorsed methods.
I have my glorious Sync for Reddit back! Thanks for reminding me about ReVanced. Been meaning to look into it. I used to used the YT Vanced app back in the day and sort of forgot about it after it got killed and moved to NewPipe(which I guess is an Invidious wrapper since it now doesn't work along with my Indivious app on my tv).
I have my glorious Sync for Reddit back! Thanks for reminding me about ReVanced. Been meaning to look into it. I used to used the YT Vanced app back in the day and sort of forgot about it after it got killed and moved to NewPipe(which I guess is an Invidious wrapper since it now doesn't work along with my Indivious app on my tv).
I'm partial to RIF myself but I've heard Sync is great.
Make sure to check the official site and the discord, and only use patching options. Never install a patched app that someone provides you, that's a known way malware is spread -- knockoffs pretending to be ReVanced forks that offer pre-patched applications to just download and install so you don't have to run the patcher itself.
Yep, I went straight to the latest .apk from apk mirror for the one to patch and am using the official ReVanced patcher. Probably gonna try and figure out YouTube later but not sure what split apks are. Ad-free Twitch and Soundcloud sound legit too.
Why go through so much effort for such horrible content? Is there anything worthwhile on reddit anymore?
As I see it, Reddit still has a few use cases that Lemmy doesn't fill as well, but maybe I just don't know enough about Lemmy.
-- One of the few places on Reddit where you can say "I'm not voting for a genocidal piece of shit" and get people supporting a free Palestine instead of dogpiling you.I know we have a covid comm but it's not anywhere near as active just because there's a bigger userbase on reddit, and it helps to have numbers for more diverse knowledge/experiences + the more people the less alone I feel. In my real life I know almost nobody who takes covid as seriously as I do except for a couple friends half a continent away.
2.5: Using local white liberal racist genocidal Nazi Blue-Maga fascists as emotional punching bags, triggering them, upsetting them, making them feel negative things as they briefly grapple with the cognitive dissonance of being called a Nazi for supporting genocide while thinking they're part of "the resistance". I want them to know that their time is limited. I want them to be uncomfortable. I want them to be afraid. I want them to know that they aren't "nice" or "progressive" like they think they are, they're goddamned Nazis. And I want them to feel like the threat is close to them, not just some random stranger online but someone they may run into irl because I'm in the same city as them. They're too comfortable. Plus it's honestly helpful to see how many Liberals fantasize about putting brown people into death camps because we refuse to vote for their Nazi heroes.
Now you may say flaming strangers on the internet is not healthy, but it's the healthiest outlet I've got and when I don't have that outlet the urge to fight fascists leads me into riskier and still unproductive territory so I'm stuck with this til I learn something better. But therapy is hard and takes a long time and some things I'm not sure can be therapized away especially given that the systemic harms which drive me to feel this way are still ongoing.
I used to like /r/ShitLiberalsSay but it's basically our c/TheDunkTank and it's mostly become ruined because people keep posting screenshots from new.reddit, whose UI is so god-awful that it's illegible so I don't read those screenshots (I go out of my way to avoid that dogshit UI, I'm not going to read anything with it)
Keeping up on news about treats and fluff. For example, /r/AnarchyChess is absolutely bizarre but I enjoy it (yes I did just admit to cringe online). Another example: /r/Piracy is somehow better than the official lemmy sister site, dbZer0, which is overrun with cringey libertarians spamming genAI garbage. I thought I'd like mander.xyz for the science and nature but it's federated with too many Nazi pages
Spite. Mostly, Reddit is familiar and organized and it tickles my fancy to keep using it in unapproved ways. Patching my mobile app was kind of just a game, something to do for the fun of it, a way to prove they haven't won yet. Once they properly kill off third party apps I won't be able to access it from mobile, and once they kill off old.reddit (or if they do something that breaks the RES extension) I will be done with the site completely.
I will also say that this hasn't felt like an ungodly amount of effort -- I put way more effort into trying to find a Lemmy mobile app with a good UI, getting used to using Lemmy, figuring out which instances were tolerable and which I couldn't stand (basically, Hexbear and Lemmygrad are the good ones -- any others that might have seemed promising have the fatal flaw of being filled with genocide-loving liberal nazis who may as well have stayed on )
I'm scribed to all the "imaginary whatever" art subs. /r/EbonyImagination has some cool artists posting these days.
New Reddit literally does not work in my mobile browser. It completely locks up the tab. I can't even change it to old Reddit in the URL bar, i have to copy and change the URL over to an entirely new tab and close the frozen one
Yeah this is why I use a patched 3rd part app
I just deal with it for the twice a month i need to look at a Reddit post
Stronger than I o7
My beautiful astroturf is melting.... melting.....
You broke the internet
samesies
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Dunk posts in general go in the_dunk_tank, not here
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