‘Nothing is changing’ — Reddit is denying a report from The Washington Post that it might force users to log in to see content if it can’t reach deals with AI companies::Reddit initially denied a report from The Washington Post that it might force users to log in to see content. However, the Post says it may still block search crawlers, and Reddit didn’t deny to The Verge that it may do so.
Narwhal just went behind the paywhal for me to today. So, I guess I’m finally done with Reddit now? I’ve been in there at least 14 years. It’s just wild to me that I lost Twitter and Reddit after so much time.
I still use RedReader for general stuff, and rss feeds of subs for porn, and I’ll check the bird once a week for people I follow for the same reason. But for reddit, my few hours a day has become a fraction, and even a decent amount of the people I watch on both platforms are either shifting elsewhere (yay) or just closing up shop (very not yay).
I was ~11 years in for reddit, and like 9 or so with birdy.
I’ve been using Firefox Nightly with the the old.reddit redirect addon and Ublock. It’s not great having to navigate around the desktop site on a mobile screen, but it’s better than the app.
I’ve noticed that old.reddit.com has a convenient bug where it won’t recognize keystrokes on mobile devices (even forcing desktop version). What a coincidence.
Edit: at least for me on iPhone running the latest OS and my Galaxy Tab Ultra with Chrome, Firefox, and Samsungs Internet (so Chrome again). I assumed this means it happens to others and isn’t limited to just me.
Anyway, glad I’ve severed almost all activity from Reddit. I wish a few niche communities would move over (like Steam Deck, which is really a shadow of its subreddit) but I understand.
I went with Narwhal for a while too. I’ve been using Lemmy on browser but still ended up on Reddit on mobile because I don’t know if Lemmy has any apps. One day I opened up Narwhal with a message about some date it’d end up being paid and I immediately uninstalled. Reddit isn’t at all worth paying for as a user. There’s literally nothing I’ve regretted about not going on Reddit; Lemmy still has plenty of pages of content to mindlessly scroll through.
Heaps of reddit app ports are on Lemmy. Not sure about iOS, but on Android there is sync and boost which we’re two of the bigger ones.
If Relay came to Lemmy I would happily pay $ to access.
For iOS: I fully recommend Thunder or Memmy. Very complete (I’m not a mod so perhaps lacking there?).
For Android: Sync is just so perfect. Feels like Reddit before it was overtaken with low-effort Facebook exiles. Boost is great as well. I know there are tons of apps for Android in particular but both of those just feel right at home for me.
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Sync has been my alternative coming from RiF. Very clean experience
Lemmy has a bunch of good apps.
Voyager for Lemmy is essentially Apollo
I really like the customizability on Jerboa for Lemmy on Android. Smaller font with list view gives me strong old school Alien Blue vibes.
Edit: Here’s my frontpage on Jerboa.
I’ve been using Liftoff! app, it’s pretty good with a few bugs
Reddit, Twitter, Netflix, YouTube all in a short time enshitificated.
Oh Narwhal was still going? Relay went paywal on the 1st.
I’ve been using the Geddit app on Android to keep an eye on a handful of subs. It loads RSS feeds and shows them sort of like a 3rd-party app of yore. Obviously there’s no participation, and it only shows a small subset of comments. But it’s good for staying up to date with news and generally weaning myself off the platform.
Man, narwhal was fucking trash, before and after the redesign. Would freeze and get stuck inside videos and posts, just awful
And now it’s pay walled lmao. I used it to follow a few communities that haven’t migrated but when I got the pop up asking me if I’d start paying in a few weeks or whatever and I said fuck your and uninstalled that piece of shit
Same, got the prompt to pay for narwhal, I’m not gonna do it. Will only Reddit on a pc now.
I was done as soon as the Boost port was available to download. Reddit has sucked for a long time. The spez bullshit was just the last straw.