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Off topic: If Anyone reading this thinking of joining reddit you can navigate it two ways without getting engaged(also enraged) with the the scum and filth and
by shmde 5y ago
Off topic: If Anyone reading this thinking of joining reddit you can navigate it two ways without getting engaged(also enraged) with the the scum and filth and rage-baits that is r/all or r/popular.
1). Use old.reddit.com, create an account ( it will bait you to enter your email, but its not necessary to proceed. ). Go to subreddits that you want to follow, there are hundreds of niche subreddits which are frankly quite awesome. Subscribe to them. click on r/Home to get the feeds of the subscribed subreddits.
2). Read-only subreddits, privacy focused. Use libredd.it go to niche hobby subreddits and subscribe. Come back to homepage.
There you go the correct ways to navigate through the piles of garbage. Thank me later for your saved time, sanity.
- staindk 5y agoI think a worthy addendum to (1.) is to review the 'default' subreddits that your new account is auto-subscribed to (unsure what the current list is, but probably stuff like /r/news, /r/funny, /r/videos...) and unsubscribe from the ones you don't/won't like. Reddit of course has its issues but by working through and around them it's still an amazing site - not because of its features or politics but because of the discussions and communities i.e. users of the site. The default subreddits are generally awful though. I use the RES extension on my PC and the Reddit Sync app on my phone and would recommend both.
- fuzzer37 5y agoreview the 'default' subreddits that your new account is auto-subscribed to and unsubscribe from all of them
- bobsmooth 5y agoThe default subs are great if you have low blood pressure but there are good niche communities on reddit.
- toomim 5y agoAnd you can install the "old reddit redirect" extension in chrome to make this automatic.
- crtasm 5y agoIf you're logged in to reddit you don't need an extension, just set it in the options.
- Frotag 5y agoFor (1), a userscript like this does wonders. There's also a way to replace new-reddit links with the old-version, but it takes a bit of tinkering to get it to work on google. // ==UserScript== // @name old_reddit // @description replaces www.reddit with old.reddit // @match *://www.reddit.com/* // ==/UserScript== const url = new URL(window.location.href); window.location.replace(`https://old.reddit.com${url.pathname}`)
- jedberg 5y agoOr just log in and tick the box that says "always use old reddit" and then it will always use old reddit.
- Seredo 5y agoUntil you accidentally click the "Get new reddit" in the top right corner. You can hide it with your adblocker though.
- Klonoar 5y agoThat doesn't work for certain cases - e.g, if you're browsing Reddit in an icognito window. e.g, you want to browse for a gift for your SO and you're review-hunting, but you don't want it showing up in your sidebar as a recently viewed thread, or being in your history, or whatever - so you don't sign in. Userscripts/extensions force old.reddit.com regardless.
- capableweb 5y ago> Or just log in and tick the box that says "always use old reddit" and then it will always use old reddit. Not sure if it's just me, but that setting seems to frequently get reset, as I tick that box maybe once a week/two weeks or something, but I keep getting sent to the new reddit at one point. Maybe I accidentally access new.reddit.com which forces the new layout and then reset the setting? In any case, I'm giving one of the new -> old redirection extensions a try now instead.
- kevincox 5y ago
- OscarCunningham 5y agoI like seeing the popular posts, so I browse r/all but use the 'filter subreddits' option in the right-hand sidebar to remove all the dross.
- danhor 5y agoAn important thing is also that reddit still doesn't require a mail address. Just click continue on the signup form without filling in the mail and bypass the dark pattern.
- jotm 5y agoYou can't comment or even view some subreddits without verifying your email, though. But creating an email address takes 5 minutes at most.
- Root_Denied 5y agoWhat are some examples of subreddits you can't view without verifying email? I haven't run across any.
- vimy 5y agoThe quarantined ones.
- sergiomattei 5y agoRequiring an email is a dark pattern?
- matt_kantor 5y agoNot requiring an email but making the UI look like you do is a dark pattern.
- HigherPlain 5y agoIn particular the posts from /r/politics which hit the front page are often Q-anon tier; absurd misinformation and extremist rhetoric. But yes the smaller sub-reddits can be good.
- BlueTemplar 5y ago> If Anyone reading this thinking of joining reddit Just don't > there are hundreds of niche subreddits which are frankly quite awesome They are condoning reddit by continuing to use it ---- There's another comment that points out that reddit screws up search engines results in order to get more front page hits. Just how long will it need to be pointed out that platforms are evil, and anti-Web, and you should be shunned for using them ? (I had some hope for reddit myself - that it would not fall to the same issues somehow, but that hope is long gone now...)
- jotm 5y agoIt's sad, but few people these days put in the minimal effort to set up a forum. Or sign up for one. Reddit is the easiest free way, but you pay the price in the end, and it's very high.
- BlueTemplar 5y agoRelated is how both storage and processing is very cheap these days, and yet you don't see many ISPs providing an out of the box experience featuring a mini-NAS, Nextcloud server, e-mail server, website server (including a personal blog and a phpBB forum ?)... on their modem/router boxes !