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  • dingus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My favorite Reddit app was killed (RIF), but I stumbled into Red Reader. For some reason Reddit still allowed it to continue. It’s not bad.

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      1 year ago

      I felt like I wanted to be part of the solution by stopping my usage of reddit. I didn’t want to continue to support a site I fundamentally disagree with on how they handled their monetization strategy by screwing over so many people.

      At this point, I no longer doom scroll reddit or even lemmy and it feels good to not waste my time doing so.

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        1 year ago

        I feel you. The problem I have is that I mostly used Reddit for niche communities. Those niche communities don’t really exist here. I tried to do without, but it doesn’t scratch the itch. I’ve even tried making a couple. But when you’re mostly just talking to yourself in a void it’s not really the same. So unfortunately I have had to go to back to Reddit for those niche communities.

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          Yeah, that’s rough. Luckily I mostly just used those types of communities as interesting reads more than actively participating outside of searching for content from them.

      • orizuru@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        Same.

        I actually feel that my stubbornness has made my life better in this case.

        I’ve been to Reddit since, but I no longer feel the need to scroll it. I just use it when I went to find a genuine human recommendation on a topic.

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          1 year ago

          There is still a certain excellence to the model of how interaction works for how I enjoy consuming online conversations. It reminds me of a better old school forum experience.

          I do still use reddit when I find search results for things I want to know, especially where reddit was the biggest community for some topics but I usually end up there from search engines.

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      1 year ago

      Hmm, I was curious about this so I looked:

      It has been agreed that RedReader falls under the exemption for non-commercial accessibility-focused apps, due to the work that has been done to optimize the app for screen readers, and the app’s high level of usage within the blind community.