Well, I guess they don't want me lurking anymore. Good bye, Reddit. We had some good times.

(For context, I cannot scroll more than 3 posts before Reddit asks me to install the app and there isn't a way to clear that screen.)

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[–] 47 points 2 months ago (1 child)

This is great news! I appreciate how Reddit is taking the initiative to spread awareness of the Fediverse. Bravo to them!

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, I had thought most people here recognized that the end was 3 years ago, if not longer, but I'm happy they're at least being forced to commit now. You don't need the endless stream of slop that is Reddit. Spend 30 minutes going through the last 6 hours of Lemmy posts, then go do something else instead.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    Long, long time Reddit user. Want to ditch because of this bs. But I’m very, very new to lemmy. Just downloaded Voyager and subscribed to all things immediately available. but don’t really know what to do next. How do I add more content?excited but nervous because I don’t understand how it all works.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Browse All. I never did this on Reddit but it’s the only thing I do here.

    I used Reddit for over a decade and quit cold turkey when the API got removed. Nothing has given me the same feeling since, but frankly Reddit hasn’t either for maybe half of those years.

    The site grew up alongside me and was an important thing for me to learn about tons and tons and tons of new things.

    Lemmy has less content, and that’s okay. Open Lemmy, run out of content, like just finish for the day and then get up and do something else. We have about 75 years of functional brains give or take, your life won’t be meaningfully enriched by throwing an extra two hours a day into a link aggregator.

    Welcome to the community community. Nothing will be the same as early Reddit and especially not Reddit, so don’t chase that high. You’ll be fine

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    What I’ve found is with Lemmy there just isn’t enough community content to browse based on subscriptions like I did on Reddit.

    I browse All or Local and block(or ignore) communities that don’t interest me.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I like to browse All to find all the random communities around here. I don't know Voyager specifically, but you can usually just go to a community page and click submit. There's one that posts new (and I think) trending communities - I'll come back with an edit

    Edit: !newcommunities@lemmy.world

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Yeah I used to actively avoid /r/all on reddit but on Lemmy I pretty much never leave it because even though there's endless content here, its not nearly to the scale of reddit. But I like it and have been here exclusively for three years now :)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Start posting content to /c's you're interested in.

    It's also worth signing up to a few other instances and looking around as you're going to be exposed to communities that you'd otherwise miss what with the various federation between platforms and whatnot. Piefed is a good one as it autosubscribes you to a fuck ton of /c's right off the bat.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    If you must use Reddit, download RedReader.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately I need to sign-in to use old reddit now. Haven't made a reddit account yet and it looks like I'm giving up lurking and checking random reddit links from a web search over starting now.

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

    Yep. No idea why anyone would want to advertise with a company that hides their ads behind a paywall either

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    Not worth it on the phone, especially as fucking spez is forcing people to use the app and lock them into that walled garden.

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

    It goes away for me if I open it in a private tab in Mobile FF. I have no idea why.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    What are all the pictures and what do they have to do with reddit?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Have nkt tried it but would ublock -> block Javascript work?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Use ublock origin lighting bolt maybe? Block that cell? Hasn't happened to me yet.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Sites are getting better at frustrating users who remove elements from pages, so I expect that Reddit would have implemented the latest tech.

    But perhaps more importantly, this is about mobile, not desktop, so there's no uBO anyway.

    Edit: Didn't read my source properly at all. My bad.

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