Reddit

Verge interviewed the maker of Relay for Reddit and says he might survive on a subscription only model of $2-3 USD per month. Lots of limitations inherent in that, but maybe.

How do lemmies feel about this?

The resemblance is uncanny

let's do some good. Upvote everything from r/Ukraine so hopefully the front page is covered with Ukraine posts!

Just another nail in the coffin. Time to delete this app

Screenshot included so you do not have to browse to it. Literally. I'm not even joking. The entire subreddit is 2 days old (founded immediately after the AMA) and populated+moderated exclusively by accounts less than 6 months old following standard generic name schemes and posting comments that reek of chatGPT generated responses.

This is the most hilarious, saddest, most obviously transparent attempt at propaganda astroturfing I have ever seen.

Spez. Get a bloody life, my dude.

I've been awarded gold over the years for various stupid comments, and I've never been able to keep up with spending it. I'm just wondering if there's anything I can do with it (before I shred my account this month) that will hasten Reddit's demise.

While this was written in response to the takeover of Twitter, it shines a light on some of the patterns of why social media platforms in general die and get replaced, which is very relevant to what's happening with Reddit.

paint by David Revoy on Mastodon

I sent them a message on Saturday, but they still haven't replied so far. I also sent them a message via contact support on Thursday, but still no replies so far. Is this normal?

Crossgeposted von: https://lemmy.world/post/76993

It is read-only, no new submissions allowed, but it is no longer private.

like nsfw/misinformation bot account migrating their content from reddit and publish on their own instance that also shuffle the created community and account name. You just like hit block button like a mad man to retain some temporary peace and 2 mins later, BAM, full page of nsfw and other stupid things popping up.

PSA: I am not responsible for you downloading these files or any files. I am not responsible for you screwing up your phone, your account, your home, your family, or anything. You are big boys and girls, and if you aren't knowledgeable of the risks associated with this I cannot help you. You accept all the risks and no one is making you do this. I am not affiliated with these application in any way. I did not write any code.

Here is the source for the instructions, but I thought I would write it out step by step for general consumption. This is obviously Android only. If you are on an iPhone, you can try the "Sink it for Reddit" safari extension to at least remove the annoying "please use our app" popups in the mobile browser.

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/147breu/use_sync_for_reddit_after_june_12_with_the_latest/

Caveats/FAQ:

Does this mean I should leave Lemmy and go back to simping for u/spez?

-No dummy, reddit fucked us all over and will likely fuck this up too. This should not be viewed as a long term solution, and you should convince others to move to lemmy. They can probably mess this up at any time, and you'll be playing cat and mouse with them as they patch things, or further limit your api access through your custom id.

Why am I advocating for this when I'm on Lemmy?

-I debated whether or not to share this, because doing so is antithetical to promoting Lemmy, but I decided to anyway beacause a lot of us love Reddit Sync and dont want it to die.

-We all likely have niche communities on Reddit that we love and there is no Lemmy equivalent at the moment. Use this opportunity to make those communities here, and then use your access to reddit via redditsync to further convince those in that community to set up roots here.

-Also, we all still have friends that will likely share reddit links to us privately. Do you want to click those links and see the cancer of new reddit, or the mobile site, or even the official app? Gross.

What about nsfw subs?

-I don't believe they will work after July 1st since those are limited at the API level for all 3rd party apps, even your custom one. Sorry horndogs

Now for the steps:

1. Uninstall reddit sync from your phone.

2. Go here and download a clean redditsync apk file (click the blue "DOWNLOAD APK" Button) - This is the APK I used: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/red-apps-ltd/sync-for-reddit/sync-for-reddit-v23-05-03-1718-release/sync-for-reddit-v23-05-03-1718-2-android-apk-download/

3. Go here and download Revanced Manager APK file and install it. https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager

4. Go to reddit.com/prefs/aps and go to the bottom where it says "Create Application" (you have to login here to do this, sorry lurkers)

5. Name it whatever you want, select "installed app" and under redirect uri, type http://redditsync/auth then click "create app"

6. After you create the app, you should see it under the title "Developed Applications". Under the name you gave it you should see a random sting of numbers, letters, and symbols. This is your client ID. You will use this in the next step.

7. Using a file manager on your phone, navigate to /sdcard/ and create a txt file titled "reddit_client_id_revanced.txt"

8. Open the text file you just created and paste in your Client ID from step 7. Make sure it is on the top line of the text file with no spaces or indents before or after the ID.

9. Open Revanced Manager on your phone. Select Patcher on the bottom, click "select application", click the "storage" button on the bottom right. Navigate to the location where you installed the clean redditsync apk in step 2.

10. When you select the apk file in step 10, you should see that is has selected 2 patches (change Oauth client ID and Disable ads). Click "Patch" in the bottom right.

11. Allow the patching to occur and read everything on the screen to check for errors. If the Oauth failed to patch, revisit step 8.

12. Click install. Google play will likely warn you, expand the option and click "install anyway", if it asks to scan the app, decline scanning.

13. Launch the application, run through the setup and re-log into your account if you want.

14. Enjoy Reddit Sync beyond July 1st!

I won't, you should.

Are the reddit admins incompetent or are they also joining the protest? Place your bets here!

EDIT: Looks like they're back.

Somehow despite less traffic and over 7000 subs being private, it still died?

funny as hell

Apparently Lemmy copied the new reddit layout which shoves everything into the middle of the screen and wastes a massive amount of space. Even on the monitor I oriented vertically this is the case: the post I'm typing right now is using like 30% of the available screen real-estate and wasting the other 2/3rds.

My philosophy has always been that if reddit removed support for the old style, that's when I'd stop using reddit. Switching to Lemmy is like switching to new reddit though.

I made an account, but I can't really see using this as a replacement. I'd guess (but I might be wrong) that the type of people clinging to the old reddit style are also the most likely to do something like switch to Lemmy out of principle.

(I looked around and it doesn't seem like there are any browser addons or userscripts to restyle it either.)

Currently on a train in the US. Noticed the guy sitting in front of me on the official Reddit app, looking at a bunch of subreddits and getting blocked by the private subs and their protest messages. Flipped around the blacked out content for a while and then gave up. It works!!!

If you'd like to sanitize your account before deleting it I use this method. I use chrome on W10 and I'm not sure if it works with other browsers or OS.

• ctrl+shift+J

• then copy and paste:

var $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'), currentTime = 0, timeInterval = 1500;

$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {

var _this = $(this); currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;

setTimeout(function() { _this.click(); }, currentTime); });

To make this work you'll need to be using RES on desktop. Go to your profile and load up all your comments and submissions, I just hold down spacebar until everything is loaded. Once that's done I do the above command and the comments/submissions get deleted one by one.

EDIT: Looks like there's easier/faster ways to do this so go with what works for you.

cross post from https://sopuli.xyz/post/673582