as the title says, all of these frontends are dead now, which means that its impossible to view any of the datat that exists on these sites if we dont own an account
is that it? should we just quit using these sites or what?
We don’t need reddit, reddit needs us. Just move on and be done with the platform. Just create new habits with Lemmy and reddit should slowly fade away from your mind. If we give alternatives some time, I’m sure great content will emerge and crazy shit like the three days no poop challenge will happen more over time.
I am personally very optimistic.
three days no poop challenge
The hell happened here?
the three days no poop challenge
That’s a challenge?
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Just to be clear, he absolutely wasn’t going hiking but to some sort of BDSM event.
We were there boys!
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no, it’s impossible.
Back in the day, when I used to go to metal festivals, there was a group among my friends who would never go for a number two during the festival. Instead, they’d weigh themselves back at home, take a dump and weigh themselves again and whoever lost the most weight won.
So… there’s that.
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We should strive to use/promote privacy-friendly and foss alternatives ( fediverse in general ) like Mastodon or Lemmy.
Because I don’t want to feed your addiction I will not let you know which 3rd party apps will work because FUCK SPEZ nobody should ever go back lol.
Damn, check out this guy with his fancy embedded meme into his comment.
Now you will have to tell
should we just quit using these sites or what?
Yes.
yes, exactly
The answer is to use Fediverse alternatives to Reddit and Twitter.
twitter 👎 reddit 👎 meta 👎 alphabet 👎
You forgot Amazon (Twitch)
Dear God, to wasn’t FAANG all along. All fear MARTA!
What social media does alphabet have?
youtube, google
Really stretching the meaning of “social media” there but sure.
Google yeah, but I don’t think YouTube is too much of a stretch, especially now they have posts and polls and other stuff.
Youtube is also blocking invidious and Piped. Frontends are no end solution. The only solution can be the fediverse. But you can use these services with a good ad blocker
NewPipe (on Piped technology) is working fine here? As long as YT isn’t behind a login they will keep working. If they do put it behind login, tbf they’ll likely find way around it again sooner or later.
I agree that front-ends are always in an endless fight against these Big Tech solutions. But for content not available on other platforms it’s an necesity and a better solution than simply an adblocker. And sadly it’ll take a long time before content moves away, Average Joe isn’t really worried about Google as much as they are about the cons of moving away from YT.
Wie are really lucky newpipe still works, but I think Google will do more. I expect, that Newpipe, Aurora and all other YouTube Frontends are breaking.
If this would happen, the only solution I see to still access these services ist to use Mullvad Browser with u blog origin. And of course you need a goof VPN like mullvad
But in the end you can’t escape it
but I think Google will do more. They’ve been trying to break it for ages. It’s one of those never ending fights. Doubt it’ll end soon.
Even if it does, then we’re at a point that “just use a good browser and uBlock Origin” also won’t cut it. Honestly, those will break much sooner than dedicated projects that are much more sophisticated in getting around YT-stuff. As soon as they put a login requirement on the site, which is needed to break apps like NewPipe, the browser + uBlock idea already won’t cut it anymore, no matter if you got a VPN ot not.
As for Aurora, as long as Average Joe still uses Google Play without a care I’m not too worried about it. People use AdBlock for the ease, but using Aurora doesnt’t give ease. It’s only the tiny group of privacy people interested in it, which is a much smaller demographic that’ll be hard to convert to Google services. If they break Aurora, the amount of non-playstore requests to developers is going to to pump up and as long as stuff like APKMirror and apk downloads from vendors still exist people will download by hand over using the Play Store. It’s a lot of trouble that likely just leads people further away from Google.
So I just visited reddit for the first time since June 30th because of this post. Opened a private window, typed reddit.com. It loaded fine. What makes you think you need an account to “view any of the datat that exists on” reddit?
because teddit is faster, lighter and looks better than stock reddit site
also to prevent trackers, ads and unnecessary JS that bloats and slows down the browser
While I appreciate the response the logic doesn’t check out. You can view the content. You don’t need an account unless you want to use your own viewer. This post was misleading.
Given your response other people’s answer to just not visit reddit is correct.
You don’t need an account unless you want to use your own viewer.
youre right, but teddit is the best way for people to lurk on reddit without actually giving reddit any traffic (remember, its not using reddit’s API, it uses its own unofficial API like nitter)
also it works on mobile browsers, and we all know how reddit behaves when you use its browser version on android
If I want to still be able to look at the works of my favorite artists, photographers and animators, I will unfortunately have to use it to some extent. Some of them also post on other platforms like pixiv, which allows you to look at content without an account. If there is any other way to look at their content, I do, but some are Twitter exclusive unfortunately.
People will naturally follow their favorite artists and will want to interact with them. If you could somehow convince the creators to post on a free and open alternative, I would not have any problem completely deleting my Twitter account.
In the case of Reddit, I would delete my Reddit account if I knew that all the rock hounders, bug identifiers, mineral photographers and crochet enthusiasts were here.
So, what now? If you are able to, create content that people are interested in and post in exclusively on free and open alternatives. If you have any useful skills or know-how, help people on free and open alternatives with their questions and problems. That is how I got into Twitter and Reddit at least. Maybe it will work for others too.
And most importantly: be nice. Don’t downvote people’s comments and posts for no reason. Don’t leave toxic comments. Say Thank you, give people compliments, provide constructive criticism and try to be helpful.
Stealth app on android still works buut lemmy just don’t use reddit at this point
Infinity also still works for me, but they announced in the recent update, that they are switching to a subscription based platform to keep up with the API changes.
I quit twitter when Elmo bought it and quit reddit when they announced their new pricing model. lemmy and mastodon are great!
Teddit use an unofficial API https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit they don’t relay on reddit.
Teddit provides unofficial API (proxy) for rss but it relies on reddit API.
teddit config.js file
use_reddit_oauth: process.env.USE_REDDIT_OAUTH === ‘true’ || false, // If false, teddit uses Reddit’s public API. If true, you need to have your own Reddit app ID (enter the app ID to the “reddit_app_id” config key).
I saw it in their codeberg.org repo. Shit.
my bad, changing the title
It’s possible to change the title after posting here?! 😲
Something I wish Reddit had before the migration…
Reddit and Twitter are next. There’s nothing more to gain from using them.
Teddit doesn’t hold any data. It’s “data” was reddit. It’s developers think that when you use the free key for 60 requests per second, that it will probably be enough.
Libreddit is trying to use the private Reddit API . Which is currently being used by the official Reddit app.
Running Teddit using a free key seems fairly usable, as long as you are self hosting an instance. Libreddits’s approach tries to bring back the old situation
Projects will deviate and find ways to be useful again.
Libreddit is trying to use the private Reddit API . Which is currently being used by the official Reddit app.
How is this possible? Doesn’t Reddit restrict their private API behind some sort of key/token?
I have no idea, they probably found a way to simulate the mobile app during the authentication fase.
