I can't get rid of it, it's obnoxious. I've tried filtering the element with my adblocker but it keeps reappearing. As much as I find Reddit useful (unfortunately), especially for information and discussion relating to my country, I will never install their proprietary garbage app on my phone just to use their website.
Oh well. I've used the Internet before Reddit existed, I'm sure I can get used to doing so again.
Just block a large chunk of .ml and .hexbear stuff and you'll see 95% less commies.
commies aren't even the issue it's the tankies. definitely a lot more leftist presence on lemmy than average (though that's true for the internet as well I feel) but most of them aren't just whiplashing straight over to bootlicking the anti-western dictators instead.
Commie here, please don't confuse Tankies who are basically just nationalists for non-US aligned countries with me.
So you don't think life is so much better in N. Korea than South like memes say?
Those guys are a strange phenomenon and I get why people block them but it's also fascinating as like a performative art or something.
I'm probably further left than almost everyone I know IRL, but never seen people go that hard into it. It's wild.
I've met people who were like the lite version of them, but maybe they just don't say it to me but do on Lemmy.
No North Korea is an authoritarian regime that doesn't even claim to be communist anymore.
Sadly I'm involved in American left politics which means I have met freaks that think China is better than the US, and would defend the USSR, I'm not quite sure if they'd defend "DP"RK, but frankly they are annoying so I have as little to do with them as possible.
I’ve met people who were like the lite version of them, but maybe they just don’t say it to me but do on Lemmy.
Yeah there is a lot of keyboard warrioring involved, much like white nationalists, get them out from their basement and they'll try and act normal though.
Like the other person said, your Lemmy experience will be a lot better once you block the tankie instances, but I hear you regarding the lack of niche communities. I want to talk about cars too, but unfortunately the "fuck cars" crowd far outnumbers us and they are everywhere on Lemmy. I can't help that I enjoy driving; chill out, people!
all you need to block is tankies, and politics. world. i just leave the memes sub alone.
Good info on the blocking. I do like hearing different opinions but I honestly thought it was satire at first.
On the "fuck cars" crowd they are seriously barking up the wrong tree. I'm all about trains and public transportation. I take Amtrak when I can. I'd love to see more metro systems. I wish we had more walkable areas. No idea how they plan on bringing this about by picking fights with people who were never against it to begin with. Get car owners on your side, they would love less traffic, bad drivers, and more parking spots.
Once you build up a decent block list, this place gets much better. I just wish there was more activity. It sucks to see a thing I'd like to discuss, and seeing 0 comments on the post.
Did your block list catch the baby with the bathwater?
Only if necessary, some of those babies are still annoying AF.
I block about 150 accounts and 15 communities.
Only one of by blocked accounts still regularly comments on my stuff, (it shows up as an empty comment with no name) I'm still ignoring whoever in the hell it was.
Easy solution to that, just get into Linux and Star Trek.
Techies, Trekkies, and Tankies: the three types of lemmings.
Have you gone to Car Enthusiasts already? https://lemmy.world/c/cars
(I'm not a car person, so I don't have any other recommendations. I just remember seeing posts from that community.)
Thanks, I should really post over there. Gotta be the change I want. Currently it is mostly shared "news" articles which really sucks because automotive journalism is an absolute joke. I want to hear the latest update on Jim from the Midwest trying to restore a Volvo 240 in his garage while dodging the HOA. Kids doing sentry duty, wife fending off neighbors from snitching to the HOA through veiled threats that she is fully aware their flagpole is at least 5 feet over regulation height.
I'm not even a car person and that sounds nice. I'd join that sub!
Start a community...what kind of cars you into?
Reddit was the bomb if I had an issue with a car and I needed to chat with 50 people that already solved the same issue on a model specific sub. Can't do that here
thier AI bots got worst in the last year, the purges made thier bots more apparent and numerious.
Yeah block the ml instance and any users and it gets better. There's a couple other propaganda instances but ml is the worst.
ML, hexbear, and lemmygrad to be specific.
I’m a former redditor as well, a few years back. Lemmy is a very nice place. It’s like Reddit back before Reddit went to shit (~15 years ago).
This year, we’ve had a big influx from Reddit. This is great that people are finally abandoning ship.
I’m pleading with you that are new here…please don’t bring the nastiness here. Start afresh!
I say that because I’ve noticed a sharp increase of shitty attitudes all of the sudden. It’s a direct correlation with the new influx of redditors. I had someone, just two days ago, accuse me of acting like an r/atheist whatever-the-fuck. He was trying to insult me because I disagreed with his view on something.
It doesn’t matter if we agree or disagree…respect and latitude is what makes Lemmy a great place. Let’s not turn this platform into Reddit 2.0 ❤️
Keep a hopeful heart, but use the block function liberally.
It's one of the things few people know exists, and it will make your life much more sane. In fact, people have been here for several years know that there's a small cadre of toxic users, and once you accidentally catch them in your block net, things calm down here for you.
Don't block people out of anger, just ask yourself if this person is the type of individual who's going to contribute to my life in any way? If they anger you are frustrate you, just block them. We don't know each other, or we're all just faceless humans here.
Welcome ❤️
just block tankies instances. and you are golden. also individuals who make tankie comments should also be blocked. plus avoid the politics community too much pro-zionists going there.
This whole shitstorm started three years ago. Welcome!
You can use the old version by changing the URL to use old.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com. It removes the banner.
Shhhh. That's like telling someone who just quit smoking, "Look, there's a barely-smoked cigarette in that ashtray!"
Yeah but it removes so much of their dumb attention grabbing bullshit too, it's like greatly reducing the nicotine
The settings also let you choose that www.reddit.com defaults to old instead of sh (the new design). It's a per-device setting though.
Welcome.
Isn't it amazing how Reddit was this beautiful community, genuinely useful and welcoming to millions, and now it's being thrown away, soiled, emptied out, on the pathetic whims of some selfish billionaire owner?
It's just how capitalism do. Enjoy free VC services while they last, but do not get attached to them. They will, invariably, enshittify.
Private companies with good leadership can last for a bit but eventually slide as well. Companies do not have moral stances and only will hold moral policies as long as they have moral leadership or they fear user backlash. Money and profits are too great an incentive.
Reddit was big enough that it wasn't worried about user backlash. I'm enjoying Steam for now, but there will come a day that it will too become a pariah, mark my words.
I find that Reddit is being run by dictators who will ban anyone easily
The technical problem (reddit UX is shit/app is shit) has various solutions. Eg:
The bigger problem of reddit being reddit is ... why Lemmy exists.
Let's each do our best not to turn Lemmy into Reddit.
Red Reader Dev said they were considering making the app work for Lemmy back before they got an accessibility exemption.
I kinda wish they didn't get that exemption. It would be the best Lemmy app available.
Voyager feels very similar imho
Can it download all the articles in a cache for later browsing offline?
Last I checked, yeah. Try it an see.
EDIT: Oh you mean Voyager?. Let me check by going into airplane mode. Ok what I see is - it downloads the topmost article / OP post but no comments beyond that. That might be a settings issue tho. So...try it and see still holds as advice.
Change the URL to old.reddit.com, you'll never get that pop-up
I actually find Lemmy to be kind of refreshing. While it doesn't have nearly the depth of content or the traffic of new posts on things I'm interested in, the fact it doesn't send my adblocker into over drive or have mods that seem to spend a lot of time trying to police their communities like they are being paid for it is nice.
Gives me a small taste of what the old days of individual blogs with comment sections and forums was like.
I agree, I wish lemmy has millions of users
As much as I hate GPTs and Reddit I've found that using most of the Search GPTs out there are a better source for getting answers from Reddit. The neat thing is all the AI companies have literally downloaded all of Reddit and now there is practically no need to ever visit Reddit anymore.
I honestly hate AI so much. I had a question about a game I was playing (basically, "Where do I find [item] in [game]?"), and the AI led me on a wild goose chase for 2 entire days before I was finally able to talk to a human about it and get the right answer. The AI had me searching in the entirely wrong layer of the game.
Sometimes the AI will completely fail to recognize the real question. Like if a particular mechanic isn't working right, it will spit out the way it's supposed to work.
Like, "Yeah, I know, and the game's not functioning that way. Which is why I need help. Fucking moron AI, I thought I turned you off in search options, why are you talking to me again?"
The problem is that there is SO much content similar to that on the internet, and often only one or two instances of the correct answer - so if the most-common next word according to its training data happens to not fit the correct answer, it throws off the whole answer.
Yes, it's the humans that are at fault, not the robots. I see you licking that metal boot instead of the leather one, and I get it.
What?
I'm pointing out a reason why AI is bad at something, and you accuse me of being a cogsucker? What side of the bed did you wake up on?
You don't need AI to search. Try Qwant or Kagi
Big fan of Kagi, I got a three month pro trial with my new cell plan and I'll probably keep it going afterwards.
Great tip!
I left because I got banned twice. One for three days for telling a story about my trainer Mark (whos name I changed) and how I didnt like him. 3 day ban for inciting violence. A week later, I was commenting on a post about someone saying getting punched in the face turned out to be a good thing for him. I replied, "Yeah man, a punch to the mouth can be great for behavior correction." Banned for 7 days.
It is important to mention that I was banned the literal second I hit post. No human saw my posts. Both times, I was autobanned by the AI moderators. It just disgusted me, so I deleted my account. I had that account since 2011, too.
One problem I had with Reddit is that the world is falling apart, and every post about serious shit always has people thinking they are hilarious. American missile blows up a school, "Guess the US found oil under that school huehuehuehue" It got so annoying.
TLDR: AI Moderation is getting super strict to prepare for their IPO, all the posts felt like bots anyways.
Yah, you have to use code words now like how they used "Panda" as a code word for Pres Xi in China.
Maybe its time to say godbye to Reddit.
welcome here, over here is chill
Ymmv
I had an acc with generic name and no picture that sometimes I'd use to ask stuff on big communities when needed, but some time ago I tried to open it to check if I had replies on a thread and they wanted to do the age verification shit, so now I don't use Reddit at all, RIP New_Spring471
Reddit has IP shadowbanned me for some reason. All new posts on my main account are invisible, and new accounts are the same. I’ve appealed, multiple times, to no response.
And not “some reason” being “I made edgy political posts they’d obviously dislike.” No, I did two things on Reddit:
Nerd out about lore on /r/thelastairbender and some other fandom subs
Nerd out about ML in /r/localllama, before the tech bros came for it.
Doesn’t seem like anything to ban me over.
…Funny thing is, it seems like I’m not alone?
I noticed many experts missing in /r/localllama. Honestly it feels like all the technical knowledge has been sucked out of the sub, and people there don’t even know the basics of how stuff works.
Same with my preferred fandoms. They’ve gotten more “culty,” less knowledgeable, less interested in deep lore and speculative theory/stories.
On the r/LocalLLama - there's a Lemmy equivalent. It's quiet but if you start a good topic people will come out of the wood work.
I'm thinking of starting one about my new project (replacing llm with deterministic code + Markov chain for garnish. Not quite an expert system of old but towards that end; DM me if you want and I will send you link to repo).
Anyway - fuck reddit and its performative nonsense, slop and bots. I will never share technical knowledge there again.
Hopefully the friction of using Lemmy keeps the worst of reddit on reddit.
just look at the shadowban sub, they are in the same situation. also unbannings by reddit seem very rare, like the admin actually unbans you. its less than<1% appeal rate out of how many posts are made. the admins are the only ones that physically unbans people, while thier AI bans people. and how many admins are there working on reddit compared to how many appeals that go through. i suspect the admins have a way of filter out majority of appeals(hences ghost rejections)
Use browser, Firefox and ublock origin, then the old reddit plugin.
Legit the best way to browse Reddit.
https://addons.mozilla.org/...
Use that instead. Makes old reddit more mobile friendly. Though I did have to turn off some settings because they were laggy.
I got shadow banned on Reddit for posting my diy Luigi prayer candle idea on a few different pages. I’m not allowed to post comments on facebook because of my anti Israel , anti billionaire and anti pedophile belief’s.
took you long enough XD, IDK of anyone has already told you but there's a tool to migrate all your subreddits to similar communities, and a script to overwrite all your comments for privacy's sake.
There's also a great community finder tool you should check out, on this side any lemmy instance can sub to any community on any other lemmy instance so you may want to subscrive to several communities with the same theme in more than one instance.
This is one of them
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
This is another: https://sub.rehab/
Thats actually so useful. Such community finder tools should be more widely known, as I think this aspect can be one of the more challenging things on fedi.
Dude, that use our garbage app to continue pop up -is- fucking obnoxious. Fuck Reddit.
Welcome!
i use firefox browser on the phone it allows you to close it, i also have adblockers on.
I was dumb/addicted enough to keep paying to use a 3rd party app but their ban-happiness meant Iwas functionally paying to lurk for 95% of the time and I think they permabanned me finally.
Their loss, i love nothing if I dont love to be threatened with a good time
Okee dokee
When I have to use reddit (searching for info about obscure idle games from 10 years ago), old.reddit makes it tolerable.
That just straight up would not work for me, it doesn't fit my use case.
I need to be able to post a pic of my ingame setup and ask for advice from people who have played longer than I have, or occasionally give advice to a new player. A read-only version just doesn't meet my needs.
I'm glad it works for you though!
There's no fix for the fact that they started banning people just for upvoting the wrong thing, though. That was the point that I bailed. Reddit is now censorship prime, and you never know what topics they're hiding from the public.
Maybe an rss reader might block the ads. Issue is getting content like pictures and videos since reddit learned how to make sharing their content hostile to other platforms
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That's exactly what drove me over here a few days ago. After they locked the API up and boost stopped working I was just browsing the website occasionally. Lemmy is cool so far, just running into a worrying amount of pro-Russian propaganda mental gymnastics. And of course not as many speciality subs yet. I wanna chat about project cars but the largest car community here are those fuckcars loons. Not fun people to be around.
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