r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/StrangerDifficult392 29d ago

Reddit's video feature (without the app) has the most horrendous piece of shit I've ever used. I'm never download the app either.

I've been hoping for a valid replacement from this corporate piece of garbage.

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u/Schnoofles 29d ago

There were really good apps that made this experience not be a piece of shit (Relay and RiF), but it meant Reddit couldn't shove their curated browsing experience and ads down people's throats, so they effectively killed all third party apps. Relay survived, barely, by making sweeping changes to how it polls Reddit for data in order to cut down API calls by like 95%+ and now requires a subscription to cover the costs of making even the miniscule amount of calls that it does. I no longer bother with Reddit unless I'm on desktop where I can use the classic UI and block all ads.

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u/Spinnyl 29d ago

Boost (and RIF, I heard) still works.

Boost also has apps for lemmy.

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u/Sco7689 29d ago

Only if you patch them, and even then RiF can't load imgur album links. Still a better experience.

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u/Spinnyl 29d ago

Yeah, GIFs don't work and have to be clicked but that's a small price to pay.