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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit (www.theguardian.com)
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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit::A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever

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[–] 62 points 2 years ago (6 children)

On the note of traffic, I still browse Reddit because it has niche communities that I want to interact with. However, I don't comment, post, or even up/downvote anymore. My interaction is now purely browsing, and I imagine it may be similar for other once-power users.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's the same for me

    Except, i try to give reddit as little traffic as possible, unless i need it for reference for something

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    It's annoying to me that sometimes I have to use Reddit because the only answer I can find to a problem I'm having is in a Reddit post or comment. I would prefer to never use it again, but I'll settle for only using it when strictly necessary.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately Reddit became such a database of niche information it's damn near unavoidable when it seems to comprise most of my search results nowadays.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I redirect from reddit to lemmy in my main web browser. I wish there were some sort of proxy so I could read reddit without that information being lost - but that's exactly the sort of service the API changes have killed. Fuck them for what they did to reddit.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    archive team runs a distributed effort to scrape and archive all of reddit, it gets uploaded to archive.org, so at least a large amount of it is accessible through there

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Well that's good at least but ideally I'd like some way of automating it like through an extension. I try viewing an answer to a question on reddit, and I get redirected to somewhere that stores the answer without giving reddit any traffic.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Same here. I actually went a step further and decided to browse the site permanently logged off. I do not wanna access my old account anymore (which I still didn't delete).

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is what I do. Also, I mostly access reddit from a RSS feed so I don't even really visit the site much. I read everything I want in my feed reader, and maybe look at the comments on the site if a particular post looks interesting. Never logged in, never comment, never vote on a post.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm in the same boat. Lemmy has some decent 'gaming' communities, but very few active communities around specific games. So when I need to find advice or discussion I still end up having to search Reddit for that sort of thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Which are your favorite on Lemmy?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    That's my problem right now. Recently a couple of friends and myself got into the Antistasi mod for Arma 3. Tons of fun but getting everything setup and being able to host the dedicated server took a few trips to Reddit. Had to find stuff on the Arma sub and the Antistasi sub.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I'll copy/paste a comment I made above again here in case it helps

    If you find you want to go back to browse but limit the ad revenue, you can still reach it with some front ends like teddit.

    Here is a good link: http://farside.link/teddit.com

    Or, for example, you can directly access subreddits by appending /r/yoursubreddit to the end http://farside.link/teddit.com/r/memes

    Sometimes an instance will be down. If so, try it again in a few minutes or in a new browser or tab so another loads.

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