I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it’s crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.
Unfortunately now we’re going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like “TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023” to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.
I keep opening Relay today and immediately quitting. Anyone use an app for this? Maybe just need to replace the app location with a new app.
My browser has an option to turn sites into a progressive web app, so I have been using those for fediverse sites and put them where RIF used to be on my home screen.
I deleted the RIF icon from my main phone screen so I wouldn’t instinctively click on it. That void feels real weird.
I deleted RIF from its spot after 11 years and put Jerboa in the spot. Those are big shoes to fill.
Jeroba if you’re on Android. Can’t remember the Apple one
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Yeah I replaced the Relay icon with Jerboa.
ChatGPT can be a handy way to get certain information as well.
Has anyone had any luck with using the wayback machine as an alternative? It may not work on more recent posts, but it should be a viable option for protesting subreddits and routing traffic away from Reddit.
I wonder how difficult it would be to make an extension that handled the redirection.
For me, once Apollo officially stops working I won’t have any ingrained habit for reaching out to reddit. I stopped using the website years ago except for reading search results that point there.
We’re all in rehab 😐
Honestly I’m trying to retrain my brain to type beehaw instead of reddit as a reflex when I open a new tab. Beehaw is literally my rehab
It could help to add reddit.com to your hosts file or your ublock origin filter list.
Change your DNS to make it redirect to Lemmy.
I’m not sure why you think you need to avoid Reddit at cost to you finding the information you’re after.
If the information you want is on Reddit, why wouldn’t you want to read it?
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The fact is that there is some useful info that only is on Reddit. No shame in looking that stuff up since that’s where it is.
The main thing is to stop using Reddit as your go-to time waster/doom scrolling app
I long for a day where my search queries will end in Lemmy instead of Reddit.
If people stop providing useful information on reddit, it’s usefulness will disappear over time.
That’s why I went for the nuclear option and deleted 13 years of accounts and comments, a lot of those comments being fixes for various Linux issues, I hate deleting something that could help someone, but I figure a lot of them are old enough to not really be needed anymore.
It’ll take time. I think eventually we’ll have enough knowledge on Reddit alternatives like Lemmy where we can add “lemmy” to our search strings instead of “reddit”.
We all have to do our part to talk about the products and services we use here on Lemmy. Does anyone know of a good community similar to /r/buyitforlife on the fediverse?
Is there a way I can follow that without having to create a new account? Still trying to figure everything out
I also found this GreaseMonkey script that simplifies the entire process by allowing you to redirect any community to your local instance: https://sh.itjust.works/post/70143
This really simplified my workstream for adding new communities. There is also a script to reformat the site to look more like old Reddit if you are really wanting to feel at home. Some great work being done in that community.
Search for a community and write !buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works as you’re search term.
How are those search terms meant to work? I’ve seen so many people recommend searching for communities by adding an exclamation point in front, but that has never produced any results when I search using Jerboa. Is that actually supposed to work, or is the exclamation point a placeholder that I have to know to exclude or replace with something else?
I’ve had the same experience, I’ve found better luck subscribing to outside communities through the websites on desktop but it’s still not 100% for me. Jerboa really needs to find a way to handle community links properly.
So far, I just search the sub name in the instance I’m registered to and it always appears in the search results at the top.
Click that and I’m in!
https://beehaw.org/c/buytiforlife@sh.itjust.works
(replace the beehaw part with whatever instance you are registered with)
Someone needs to make an extension that seamlessly manages federations and servers like that, since it is going to be the worst part of switching
Hate to repost the same thing, but this might help in that regard: https://sh.itjust.works/post/70143
It’s not really an extension, rather its a GreaseMonkey script, but it does simplify the process quite a bit by redirecting a community to your local instance. I’ve found it has simplified my workstream. I’m sure there will be extensions and other utilities to come in the near future.
Interesting! Thank you!
Unfortunately now we’re going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like “TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023” to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.
So… exactly what other users submitting content had to do previously. Unless you just lurk and don’t submit anything.
What I find frustrating is that on iOS, the system put my Ice (Mastodon) icon into a Social folder but my Narwhal app was placed in Information and Reading! So my muscle memory has me tapping an icon in a different folder and I can’t move Ice to where I want it. I’m trying to train myself to use the PWA links on my Home Screen for sh.itjust.works and kbin.social but it’s a struggle.
Edit: just to be clear, I’ve never understood why Narwhal was put in the Information folder instead of Social.
I’m using a pi-hole on my network and I added reddit to the ‘blocked list’ to cut down on myself clicking the links. I should find a way to filter out the links from my search results easily, but this works for now.
Quitting Reddit’s hard, but it’s heartening to see just how many people are posting from different instances here! I’ve got to admit, even after Mastadons limited success, before today I never seriously thought that federated social media would actually ever work. It just seemed to complicated for average person to grok.
Here we all are though! Decentralizing the decision making for who gets to post and host, what gets seen and what doesn’t, seems to be worth fighting for. For enough of us at least to make this corner of the internet interesting for a while.
I’ve got a question though, are there any non technical people here? If you are interested in technology do you know non technical people who are participating in the black out?
I think a Reddit type platform lends itself better to federation than something like Twitter. Reddit is already split up into sub communities so it’s easier to digest vs. Mastadon/Twitter meant to be one big conversation.
Your question about non-technical savoy folks being on here is valid and there’s probably not many. But Reddit also started out like that and it took many years before it became mainstream. Federated serves are a new thing, even for the technological literate, so I suspect it will take a while to permeate into casual internet users but it will happen in the future.
Yeah I can see a path for this ramping up slowly, especially given the horrible mismanagement of places like Reddit. Even if they weather the storm of the blackout, given the official app, it seems like they’re just chasing the same infinite dumb stream of memes design that places like Facebook and Tiktok have already embraced. Probably because that’s where the money is? I don’t know.
The more niche communities are always what made me hang out at Reddit though! I’d bet they continue to alienate and marginalize them enough that more people continually jump ship over the next couple of years. I do hope Beehaw and other spaces like it succeed in becoming a non-profit and truly community driven, and the web decentralizes itself again.
