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Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
- fernly 6y agoIs there a way to get my list of subscriptions from Reddit? Or to set up a list of preferred subs?
- _ps6d 6y agoWhile logged in on Reddit, go to this page: https://old.reddit.com/subreddits https://old.reddit.com/subreddits, then copy the url from the "multireddit of your subscriptions" link in the sidebar to the right, replace the "old.reddit.com" in it with "teddit.net", and bookmark that.
- fernly 6y agoThank you, that worked. Plus on that multi-teddit page is a convenient table of each sub sorted by name, so one can open it e.g. in a tab.
- disown 6y agoI think a lot of people here, including me, are mistaking teddit as an alternative to reddit. It is not. It's just an alternative "skin" for reddit. So if you are confused why it has AskReddit instead of AskTeddit, now you know.
- gizmodo59 6y agoDark mode, no ads, similar to old.Reddit.com layout. That’s all I need and this is good. Hope it’s not in some violation of Reddit and gets taken down.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoIt’s open source. You could run your own instance. https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit
- mpoteat 6y agoIt's been shown recently that it's at least theoretically possible for code to be taken down if it violates copyright.
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- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoThat's been true for a long time.
- bawolff 6y agoIt seems pretty hard to imagine this would fall afoul of any DMCA issues.
- BuzzwordBingo 6y agoHow could taking someone else’s content and displaying it on your site be wrong?
- jackson1442 6y agoReddit's not real picky about interfaces like this, especially if they're not for profit. Really the only time they say it's problematic is if you try to pass it of as an official client or use their branding too heavily (Apollo, a client for iOS, had to change up their icons because it looked too much like the reddit Snoo).
- CamelCaseName 6y agoSimilarly, "reddit is fun" or "rif" for short, had to change its name to "rif is fun".
- thidr0 6y agoCould it become a violation of their API TOS if too many people use it (ie too many api calls in a minute)
- stinos 6y agoCan you elaborate on what is so good about the old reddit layout, or bad about the new one (apart from performance)? The way I use reddit, what it does now actually works better for me (again, apart from how slow it is): I subscribe to a mix of subs with like 50% of image and video posts. Which I can now just see full size without clicking, and quickly scroll through if not interesting. With old.reddit and teddit, I have to look at a tiny thumbnail to decide whether I'd want to see the full version. Similar for text posts: being able to read the first couple of lines isn't that bad.
- gkoberger 6y agoThere's a weird paradox... I believe in privacy/free speech/etc, however any social media targeted at those usecases tend to be a cesspool of horribleness.
- _e21c 6y agoIt’s an alternative interface to Reddit, not a new site with different moderation rules.
- FreeTrade 6y agoIt is an improvement over reddit's gradually worsening interface, however it is still based on reddit's private platform. For an open source alternative on a public platform, there is matrix or member.cash
- dicknuckle 6y agomatrix is for live chat. you want saidit which is an open source fork of reddit's open source code that stopped in 2017.
- glenstein 6y agoWell these days Lemmy is the hot new reddit alternative, based on activitypub. I would think that's what people wanting a reddit alternative should look at.
- jhabdas 6y agoLemmy looks good. Here's a link to the software. https://lemmy.ml/docs/about.html https://lemmy.ml/docs/about.html
- UncleSlacky 6y agoThere's also Raddle: https://raddle.me https://raddle.me
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- Evidlo 6y agoWhy is there a little bit of horizontal scrolling space on mobile? This happens on a few other websites too.
- jpomykala 6y agoSomebody probably forgot to use “container” class before putting a “row” class. It mostly happens on <footer> at least in my case.
- edoceo 6y agoAlso a community recently on my radar is https://tildes.net https://tildes.net
- companyhen 6y agoTildes is by an ex-reddit employee, I believe the one who created AutoModerator.
- MattGaiser 6y agoWhy do so many sites choose grey on grey? I hate that design choice.
- Deimorz 6y agoI originally used something else, but enough people complained about it being weird that I made the default a boring white/grey one. There are 10 other color schemes you can choose from in the dropdown in the footer though.
- SquareWheel 6y agoI recommend Atom One Dark. It's provides nice contrast without being hard on the eyes.
- wccrawford 6y agoSadly, it's an invite-only alpha. It looks pretty good so far, too.
- Deimorz 6y agoYou can just send me an email to the address in the announcement blog post, and I can give you an invite: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes (that offer's open to anyone, but please read through the post so you know about the site's goals/principles/etc.) It's not intended to be difficult to get an invite, I mostly just don't want to constantly deal with large influxes of users because of drama on other sites, persistent trolls, and things like that. It doesn't show by default to logged-out users, but we've got a devoted group set up for Advent of Code that's reasonably active so far, if anyone's participating in that and would like to join us: https://tildes.net/~comp.advent_of_code https://tildes.net/~comp.advent_of_code
- ipsum2 6y agoCool, it's like https://nitter.net/ https://nitter.net/ (alternate Twitter frontend) but for Reddit. Seems very slow though, not sure if it got the HN-hug of death.
- pietroppeter 6y agoIn fact it says in read me that it is inspired by nitter! nitter is written in Nim though, while this uses NodeJS
- baal80spam 6y agoOh my, thank you for letting me know about nitter. It looks fantastic and even offers RSS!
- pndy 6y agoThere's also https://bibliogram.art/ https://bibliogram.art/ for instagram, invidio.us instances for youtube. Only if there would be a way to "walk around" imgur - I'd be happy already.
- baggachipz 6y agoIs this the presumed ui for when old.reddit.com goes away?
- jhatemyjob 6y agoIsn't the correct term mirror? In any case, this is awesome. I hope the developers add a feature that lets you see removed comments, and previous edits as well. Or maybe even a "time machine" type feature. That would be cool.
- VWWHFSfQ 6y agoshowing removed comments and edits are huge privacy issue. you don't know why the comment was removed, or why it was edited.
- zingplex 6y agoTime machine doesn't need to mean seeing deleted comments. I think it would be neat if you could see what the front-page look like at certain times.
- jackson1442 6y agoI believe they're referencing the part of the comment right before they brought up time machine, where it's mentioned that they'd like to see deleted comments and an edit history. I agree with the sentiment, users who delete their own comments should have their privacy respected. Same goes for edits.
- jhatemyjob 6y agoPeople should speak with conviction. People who frequently remove/edit their comments have problems. Write the comment and be done with it.
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- m463 6y agoI think there might be some good reasons to let that alone.
- m463 6y agoNo cruft, no cdn domains and no javascript. I gave up on reddit a couple years back, but this might make me rethink. With so many things turning to mud, this is a good thing. What I cannot figure out is how they do the [-] show/hide stuff without javascript? Even hacker news - which is relatively lightweight - uses javascript for that. EDIT: ...and I'm back. It's like eating a box of candy for dinner - sugar rush and no nutrition.
- sdan 6y agoThe <detail> <summary> Title </summary> Content </detail> tag allows you to do that iirc. I use it on my site and works fine to hide things that you can expand upon when clicked.
- dharmab 6y agoIt even works in GitHub Markdown: I use it to put long code snippets/examples into a fold.
- llbeansandrice 6y agoOh no way. Going to have to use this
- sillysaurusx 6y agoSomehow it takes 4 seconds to un-collapse a toplevel comment in Chrome. E.g. this one: https://teddit.net/r/Bossfight/comments/k6vh5v/bearers_of_the_eternal_duel/genbcos/ https://teddit.net/r/Bossfight/comments/k6vh5v/bearers_of_th... Pages also seem to take around 10 seconds to do the initial render. No server problem, just rendering. So if you do use this, I guess don't overdo it. :) Or at least profile. I use a 2015 MBP potato laptop. I guess my perf problems aren't really relevant. But it handles all modern sites just fine, so it was surprising. Definitely spikes something to 100% on each load: https://i.imgur.com/1fqBDEX.png https://i.imgur.com/1fqBDEX.png and the CPU graph is a nice timeline of me reloading teddit. EDIT: Oof. I just did a profiling session to figure out what the heck it was doing: https://imgur.com/ilvRkEb https://imgur.com/ilvRkEb Purple = rendering time. As you can see, it's 100% pegged at rendering whenever I uncollapse a thread. So, devs, if you happen to read this, the process is: 1. go to https://teddit.net/r/Bossfight/comments/k6vh5v/bearers_of_the_eternal_duel/genbcos/ https://teddit.net/r/Bossfight/comments/k6vh5v/bearers_of_th... 2. Collapse the toplevel comment https://imgur.com/vjDhTk2 https://imgur.com/vjDhTk2 (which is very fast.) 3. Activate a profiling session: Command-option-I, click performance tab, command-E to start recording 4. Un-collapse the thread 5. Stop recording Here's the profiling session in case it helps: https://battle.shawwn.com/misc/2020-12-04/Profile-20201204T185357.json https://battle.shawwn.com/misc/2020-12-04/Profile-20201204T1... No idea if it gives any insight into what's going on, but there y'go. I'm not sure how they'd solve this. 98.2% of the time is spent in "Layout": https://i.imgur.com/tSexr0n.png https://i.imgur.com/tSexr0n.png Is there even anything you can do to address that kind of perf problem? Yuck. I don't envy whoever digs into that one. I tried profiling with "Enable advanced paint instrumentation (slow)" but it seemed to show exactly the same result: https://i.imgur.com/V26oOTT.png https://i.imgur.com/V26oOTT.png "Nodes That Need Layout 3841 of 3987 Layout root#document" seems relevant. So it sounds like the details card is somehow causing a full-page layout for almost every element on the page. Which should be fast, except that every element seems to cause another layout. Or ... something. Not sure if there's any other details I could give, but let me know if anyone has ideas.
- secondcoming 6y agoPlease shadowban /r/politics from the homepage unless someone is logged in and subscribed to it!
- evolvedspeech 6y agoWhile an improvement on Reddit's user interface is welcome, it is yet another way to interact with privately curated content. There are now countless clones and alternatives to Reddit and Twitter that advertise themselves as free-speech (Gab, Parler etc) - yet they all share the centralized model, where user accounts are really owned by the platform and where speech and users can be removed. What I really want from this decade is a real free-speech solution, where users and discussion cannot simply be removed when it becomes inconvenient.
- theqult 6y agoprobably you are not a native latin-based language speaker but the word itself, "domain" comes from the verb To Dominate
- FreeTrade 6y agoYou might consider https://member.cash https://member.cash User accounts are based on private keys, so are self-sovereign. Posts and interactions are recorded on the blockchain, so removal becomes impossible.
- evolvedspeech 6y agoI don't get it. The website operator could remove or moderate posts. He could be forced to, and the whole website could simply be taken offline.
- FreeTrade 6y agohttps://member.cash https://member.cash is just one interface to the Member platform. The database is open (on a blockchain) and the source is open (github) thus it is easy to host a mirror. For example, https://member.bchd.cash https://member.bchd.cash Even if all the mirrors become corrupted or taken down, there is a desktop version to access the platform ( https://member.cash/p/7ec2547d6e https://member.cash/p/7ec2547d6e ) It is truly a public platform and very censorship resistant.
- webscout 6y agoFrom a privacy/no-track perspective, I also like https://upstract.com https://upstract.com — Albeit more of a general-purpose news fix.
- TomJansen 6y agoInstantly made a Reddit -> Teddit redictor[1] rule! [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/redirector/
- rmrfstar 6y agoThat sounds like a foolish thing to do. Teddit terminates your TLS connection to Reddit, and all you have is their promise to not use that position of power.
- codegladiator 6y ago> with a reputation to protect Haha good one. > Reddit almost certainly does a better job protecting your privacy and security Even better. I never understand this line of thought. Existing players are abusing their position, SO we wont migrate to a new player because what if they also abuse the position ? (which is in fact advertising itself on privacy explicitly)
- rmrfstar 6y agoIt would be nice to know who that "new player" is.
- eecks 6y agoReddit links and comments can be edited by the admins so no trust can be put there either
- simon1573 6y agoI just submitted a tiny Firefox addon for redirecting old.reddit.com and reddit.com to teddit.net. Seems like you were faster :-) EDIT: Oh, I just realized you just added a rule to an existing addon. Here's a link to the addon I made, though it's not gonna be visible until it has been blessed by Mozilla: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-to-teddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-to-ted...
- tyingq 6y agoCurious if this works more like a live proxy or more like a mirror.
- thidr0 6y agoLive proxy
- neoplatonian 6y agoHi. As someone new to frontend, could anyone tell me how frontend for lightweight-but-very-functional sites like these (also hackernews) built? Do they use something like Next.js for server-side-rendering? Which frameworks would you recommend to build a social network, if one wanted to avoid Single Page frameworks like React and Vue?
- tetraca 6y agoHaving built sites of similar levels of interactivity, we would have used some sort of server side framework with a template library (A custom PHP framework+Smarty, Spring Boot+Thymeleaf, Python+Django), without any front end frameworks at all. We would use jQuery a little, and later some Bootstrap. But these days vanilla JS would probably suffice for what we'd generally have used jQuery for. This is probably a bit old school at this point, I'm sure.
- t0astbread 6y agojQuery is a relatively small dependency and it's still more expressive than vanilla JS so I wouldn't hesitate to use it if it felt appropriate. One could also reach for something like Preact if some components are too complicated for manual imperative updates. You can use it without a build step and only for some parts of your pages. For compatibility you can ship a server-rendered component that you then throw away if the client has JS enabled (although that would require you to implement it twice).
- fareesh 6y agoYou don't need to use react and vue as single page frameworks, you can just use them for reactivity / events. There are lightweight alternatives for that too. If you do it that way you don't need server side rendering since your JS is only handling events and there are no client side components or anything like that.
- t0astbread 6y agoSibling comments mentioned some approaches already but just FYI, Hacker News is built on Arc, a custom-made Lisp dialect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
- dimator 6y agoIf they could find a way to mirror v.reddit.com videos (using an alternate host, like streamable or whatnot) that would really be a welcome addition. Also, for now it seems you can't log in to your reddit account (maybe that's by design), which means you have to bookmark your subs using e.g. teddit.net/r/videos+haskell+woodworking which honestly is not that bad.
- lethologica 6y agoAfter I realised how long I was spending mindlessly browsing Reddit, this is what I ended up doing. I nuked my account and just bookmarked the subs I was subscribed to. Now whenever I feel like I need a hit of Reddit, I visit one of my bookmarks and do a quick catchup. I've done the same with YouTube and have found I spend far less time on these sites now with just the slightly added friction of deleting an account (which I believe now offer no real benefits at all if you're just consuming the content).
- henlo 6y agoWait, I just realized after 15 minutes browsing this website that I'm not using VPN. Reddit is blocked in my country, so Teddit will be the replacement for me. I like browsing Reddit without an account, just to read something. But I don't want to install their super big mobile app (1GB+), and I hate their lagging and weird website on mobile.
- lethologica 6y agoWhoa, their app is 1GB+? Why on Earth is it so large? After all of their horrible, annoying, devious and deceitful ways that they've tried to get me to install the app when trying to browse their mobile site I will never ever install that app and this is just another good reason not to.
- edjrage 6y ago... What? I've never downloaded it myself (for the same reasons as you), but that doesn't sound true. Play Store says it's 39MB. But maybe OP has that much in media in the app's cache or something.
- henlo 6y agoIt's not app's cache I believe, but rather app's data. I think they're different? It's indeed 39MB on Play Store, but after I installed it and used it for a month, it's using 1GB+ storage on my phone (after I deleted app's cache).
- edjrage 6y agoYeah, so that's pretty bad.
- ornornor 6y agoHa, I hate it when apps do that. One of the main reason I got rid of Spotify and my Spotify paid subscription was because their android app gobbled all the free space it could find on a device by filling it with caches music. “Of course Spotify, I pay extra for more storage on me device so you can use it to cache songs and save a few cents on bandwidth, you’re very welcome.”
- holler 6y agoIf you're looking for a low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit or Twitter that's focused on live conversation, check out https://sqwok.im https://sqwok.im Disclaimer I am building it. Key Points: - Minimalist design with focus on readability & usability. - Real-time messaging meets news aggregator - All posts have a built-in chat room including presence, typing activity, etc. - Fast, open, simple - Anyone can view posts simply by opening the url, minimal click to start talking. Create sharable chat rooms on the fly essentially - Follow other users in real time & join them in conversation. - No voting - Relevance is based on chat activity and excluded voting entirely.
- thatguy0900 6y ago" No voting - Relevance is based on chat activity and excluded voting entirely." Won't this just mean that the top comments will always be flamewars?
- holler 6y agohey good question, and it is experimental so we'll see how far it goes, but I think you could get more granular to detect things like unique message author/over rolling time period, account age, perhaps a private vote people could add or other metrics to try and filter out noise.
- holler 6y agoTo follow up with that, I want to try and mimic real life as much as possible, and avoid the incessant dopamine feedback loop that voting/liking promotes. That's sort of my guiding idea, to keep it razor focused just on conversation.
- fsnowdin 6y agoI checked out your website and the premise seems to be pretty solid. I've been browsing 4chan lately and while the place is certainly a cesspool most of the time, I loved the ephemeral and almost real-time discussion format. sqwok seems like something I'd use. However, I think you might have heard this already, what the hell is the sqwok name. How do you even pronounce it let alone memorize it!? I think you know what my suggestion is.
- urda 6y agoreddit has become overrun by their moderators and staff. reddit went from open discourse to pushing reddit staff agendas, not to mention the erasing of Aaron Schwartz. The overall state of the site is just sad. I'm eager to see what replaces it next.
- lazyjones 6y agoA certain Ghislaine Maxwell seems to have been a very active moderator too. It's not a radical idea that all major social media platforms are now under attack (possibly successfully) from people and organizations pushing narratives and becoming a moderator is probably the easiest way to do it.
- optimalsolver 6y agoSchwartz didn't really have anything to do with the founding of Reddit.
- surround 6y agoIt would be nice to be able to expand/view posts without actually opening them.
- dchasson 6y agoSomething needs this, but not me.
- throwaway122378 6y agoIf you think Reddit is a leftest echo chamber just wait for Teddit. As of now the front page has posts with more upvotes than Reddit’s front page.
- fastball 6y agoNo amount of privacy makes Reddit less of a cesspool.
- circularfoyers 6y agoI don't think it's sensible to characterize the entire site that way when there are many subreddits that have very different communities within them. While I do agree many, particularly the more popular ones, aren't for me (where it seems very little actual discussion happens), there are some small subreddits I enjoy such as r/selfhosted and r/linux.
- fastball 6y agoSubreddits are definitely how it manifests, but the problem is with the design itself. Upvotes and downvotes with effectively no restrictions (unlike, for example, HN, which has a variety of restrictions in place) plus the fact that every subreddit is a weird little dictatorship/oligarchy where moderators are given the tools to unilaterally direct conversation / silence dissidents / etc was always gonna be a recipe for disaster (in retrospect). Certain subreddits being small and focused enough to avoid this (for now) doesn't make Reddit not a cesspool.
- mxcrossb 6y agoMaybe it’s just my browser, but I’d there no way to change the comment sorting?
- unityByFreedom 6y agoSeems like a rather expensive free service to offer. How much bandwidth was used by the virality of this post? If this became popular I don't see how someone could afford to keep it going.
- filleokus 6y agoOh.. Yes. I assumed that they hot linked (a word I haven't used in 10 years) all the images/videos from reddit / imgur. But no, they seem to re-host everything. Which is admirable both from a privacy and "fairness" perspective, it lessens the burden of Reddit. But yes, without ads or fees, it seems unsustainable.
- circularfoyers 6y agoUnless the audience which cares enough about privacy to use the site is small enough that it is sustainable. However I know Nitter and Invidious promoted other instances too to spread the load.
- Nextgrid 6y agoOutside of AWS and the cloud bubble, bandwidth is extremely cheap. You can get dedicated servers (aka actual hardware) with 100Mbps of unmetered bandwidth for a couple bucks a month.
- rmrfstar 6y agoHow can it be privacy focused if it is terminating my TLS connection to Reddit? Your Reddit browsing patterns are just going to accumulate at Teddit. Given the increased importance of things like /r/wallstreetbets, this data could be pretty valuable.
- detaro 6y agoIt could be privacy focused by not accumulating that data.
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- rmrfstar 6y agoIs there some reason I should believe they won't when it is clearly in their interest to do so?
- ascorbic 6y agoWhat value could they realistically get from aggregated Reddit browsing habits if they're not selling ads or even setting cookies? If they just want to see what's popular they can just use the Reddit API to get that data, or just go to the site.
- rmrfstar 6y agoSo the burden is on me to show they are untrustworthy, rather than the burden being on them to show they are more trustworthy than Reddit?
- detaro 6y ago"Why should I trust whoever runs this" is a very different question than "How can this be privacy focused", unless you believe people always have to act unethically if they can.
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- abhinavsharma 6y agoReddit has probably the strongest network effect of any community product so it’s surprising and good that they still have an API that enables stuff like this.
- tjoff 6y agoHow to you browse reddit comments when there is a "load more comments" every other line? Granted this works better than how real reddit does it. For the real reddit I've just assumed that they deliberately made it unusable to force you to create an account.
- mobjack 6y agoThe real reddit loads them in the same page without a refresh like you are expanding a comment thread. It is one area where a little bit of JS improves the user experience. You can see the behavior without logging in by going to the old reddit site.
- tjoff 6y agoI don't agree, it is finicky, breaks the flow and takes longer time than a real page refresh without javascript. And after a certain depth collapses everything and you have no idea where you were or how to get back. Even in the perfect world with performant js and no issues the concept still has no merit.
- cole-k 6y agoWould probably switch in a heartbeat if I could expand the posts without opening a new tab. How difficult would it be to port Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) to this? Or is there some browser extension that lets me accomplish roughly the same thing? I think I'm one of many people who spends most of their time lurking anyway. Might still give it a go...if I wouldn't browse reddit as much with the added friction of opening links to view posts, maybe I shouldn't browse reddit as much anyway.
- morrbo 6y agoI feel exactly the same. After they butchered m.reddit this seems like a viable alternative for mobile, but is just missing the ability to enlarge images/video without opening the post for me. Happy to open comments etc in a new tab ofc
- tgv 6y agoI guess you can write some javascript that adds an iframe to the page and with the link as the source.
- NosyHammock 6y agoThis is really challenging thing to do without any client-side JS. It would require downloading media (not just little thumbnails) of every post in the current subreddit view. I might make a feature where people can enable (disabled by default) certain features from the preferences which enables them to use features like this which require client-side JS.
- nebulous1 6y agoHaving given teddit a go this would probably be a must-have for me. I'm by no means an anti-javascript absolutist though.
- cole-k 6y agoThanks for making this! Is there any way for a browser plugin to use client-side JS without the site using it? I know this might be a stupid question, but I know very little of extension and frontend development. That aside, if it isn't too much work to add or support RES features, I would love it and totally use teddit. I (and perhaps some other people here) would even be willing to throw a few bucks your way to help with development/server costs if you open up a donation page.
- charliebrownau 6y agoEver considered its time to WALK AWAY from judo-mainstream
- totony 6y agoLooks nice, but quarantined boards don't work.
- pcdoodle 6y agoone click and i realized why I don't go there anymore. Good to have an alternative option just in case though!
- crowf 6y agoGreat site! One annoyance (with potentially no good solution) is that when a Reddit comment links to another Reddit page rather than changing the link to the teddit equivalent, it links to Reddit causing Reddit to shout at me for having the audacity to brows Reddit on my phone without their app. Both i.reddit and ww.reddit work the same way so maybe there is a good reason not to hijack links, but just wanted to say.
- NosyHammock 6y agoThanks! One solution for this could be to install an add-on which redirects Reddit => Teddit. I've used add-on called Privacy Redirect: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... But there are others too which can do the same, like: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/redirector/
- FireflyChild 6y agoHow do you even make an account????
- jonplackett 6y agoAnd it doesn’t try to trick me into downloading the Reddit app on every single page load! Worth it just for that.
- singularity2001 6y agoAfter running the native ios reddit app through pihole I was shocked about how _little_ information was leaked to third parties or even reddit itself. Did I miss anything?
- intricatedetail 6y agoIsn't Reddit now a Chinese surveillance of Western culture and a gateway for their propaganda? I feel that a good chunk of the platform has been infiltrated by people pushing Marxism and downvoting any other view.
- approxim8ion 6y agoa) Marxism isn't exclusive to or necessarily even promoted by China b) It probably depends on the subs you frequent, my experience has been fairly different. c) Even if it was a "Marxist echo chamber" that wouldn't necessarily make it a "Chinese surveillance of Western culture". d) There's a whole world between China and the "West" that also uses Reddit.
- lousken 6y agoIf only it was able to support ?limit=500 for subreddits and threads
- DavideNL 6y agoHopefully someone will create a "redirect Reddit to Teddit" Firefox extension sometime soon :) ...similar to the "Old Reddit Redirect" extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
- tgv 6y agoI just cloned it, replaced "old.reddit.com" by "teddit.net", and it works. Not sure what the paths "poll" and "rpan" and such are, though.
- IngvarLynn 6y agoPlease consider a more universal "privacy redirect" extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...
- oftenwrong 6y agoAnother commenter has shared this extension, which can be user to configure arbitrary redirection rules: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/redirector/
- gitaarik 6y agoYou also have this for Android: UntrackMe Lite (Transform Youtube, Twitter & Instagram links to their free and open source alter) - https://f-droid.org/packages/app.fedilab.nitterizemelite https://f-droid.org/packages/app.fedilab.nitterizemelite They should add Teddit to their inventory, I'll send them a message.
- tigerbelt 6y agoThis is without question the most Teddit post I have I have ever read
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- cali22f 6y agoTtt
- cali22f 6y agoPrivacy focused? This unknown site is proxy-Ing all requests too/from Reddit. Who knows what (if anything ) they are doing with that information. Surprised not to see this comment 12 hours and 200 comments layer.
- mounds 6y agoOof.
- nvr219 6y agoOofa doofa
- blntechie 6y agoTrue. But there is no other way to call the Reddit API safely without proxying it through. I have had a very similar idea for sometime and even thought of adding a prompt optionally to get the Reddit api key from the user and store it in localstorage and use it from the browser. But never got around to doing it. This is almost similar and the code is open source anyway. So you can run your own instance just replacing the API key. This is what I’m planning to do.
- sbarre 6y agoIt's a valid concern, but the app is open-source, so you can download it and run it yourself locally if you want. Looking at the README I bet it would take about 5 minutes to create Dockerfile for this.
- cali22f 6y agoThe “privacy “ comes from proxying the connection to Reddit. If you run it locally every post viewed will be seen by them.
- sbarre 6y agoAre you saying Teddit is still proxying requests to Reddit even when I'm running it locally? Can you show me where that happens because I've looked at the source code and the API calls I can find all go directly to Reddit.
- nooyurrsdey 6y agovery promising! needs some reddit enhancement suite features and expanding comments probably needs to be dynamic instead of a page reload. but it looks great! will continue to use it
- sim_card_map 6y agoShows how fast websites without javascript are. Ironic, since JS was initially added to make things faster (ajax forms etc)
- superkuh 6y agoThis looked pretty nice. I was going to set up my own instance but it runs javascript on the back side.
- chosen1111 6y agoCheck out Ruqqus its great!
- bobobob420 6y agoNice, looks like I will be using this.
- estranhosidade 6y agoIs it just me or front-ends of giant platforms are becoming more mainstream? First Individious, then Nitter, now Teddit. I think this speaks volumes of what modern webpages have become. Too bad that those sites will probably pull the plug and make changes that simply break those front-ends.
- xfkechyk 6y agoLinks to other reddit posts go to reddit instead of staying on teddit
- peanut_worm 6y agoCSS probably needs a little work but otherwise this seems like a really cool idea
- retpirato 6y agoAre there any sites that are a complete alternative to reddit instead of just a different frontend? I found https://dev.lemmy.ml/ https://dev.lemmy.ml/, but they don't seem at all concerned about privacy. They have no privacy policy, so I found a site that generates a privacy policy for them, & they still haven't added a privacy policy.
- tornato7 6y agoSpeaking of, are there alternative Reddit backends? It would be interesting to be able to take one of these sites or Reddit apps and point it at an alternative backend that provides identical functionality with different data.
- orange_puff 6y agoHow do people make these? How can you get all the content from a site and display it on yours? Are you using the reddit api, web scraping, or something else?