2) Only browse all.reddit.com, as there's no telling when a new subreddit will pop up that you'll enjoy.
3) Use the Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) to filter out any subreddits you see that you're not interested in. I currently have 3,557 subreddits blocked.
4) Create backups of your RES settings in case of disaster.
5) Use the ability to tag users as often as you deem necessary, and block the truly heinous users. You'll see those tags pop up often.
Use old.reddit and only browse the niche subreddits that don't hit the front page. Helps avoid the bot farm spam content, manipulation by PR and marketers, etc. The eternal september on the site has gotten to be too much for me, but that's as much about me maturing as the sites demographic.
I'm so accustomed to old reddit that I don't think I could ever switch. old.reddit.com and old reddit redirect browser extension helps make it seamless.
I use 'rif is fun', though these days I never come away from a reddit session thinking "Boy, I sure got value out of that time spent", so maybe I should use the excruciating experience as a way to wean off reddit.
Just an FYI to anyone who cares, RES is on life-support and is no longer being maintained. They are looking for people to take an active role in support and are open to PRs. They are also accepting donations if you feel gratitude for what they've provided over the years. I personally sent them $10, but they deserve more than that.
I avoid any business that makes me fight it in order to enjoy it. Since Reddit is online, I can avoid it by blackholing anything hosted on 'reddit.com'
For desktop/laptop computers, Just use https everywhere to redirect reddit.com to old.reddit.com. It works like a charm. The difficulty I have is to redirect it to /.compact in mobile
I assume that if 'reddit is fun' aka 'rif' was in this poll then it would be winning, as I've tried every other option in the poll and they are all horrid, bloated affairs bursting at the seams with the most pointless and unnecessary features.
I like rif for the same reason I like hackernews, because it focuses on the experience of viewing content, not on banal social media features.
On android use Sync.
On browser, login, save dark theme and ensure it's set to 'classic' view. After a short adjustment period it's very functional. I now find old reddit irritating.
As a decade+ user with a modestly successful personal subreddit ... when it became painfully obvious that Reddit would press to the point of pain in its new feature development, I signed out.
That subreddit's "cake day" automated submission ... rather took the cake!
So, I mod a subreddit that provides a somewhat important volunteer service for subscribers. The details aren’t important. My question is: what would be the most ideal off boarding experience to bring these folks to another platform from a subreddit?
At first, I thought about forking teddit in such a way that the hosted app would have a domain, and would use teddit to proxy to the Reddit subreddit. I’d bootstrap existing users using oauth attestations, because the day will come where we’ll want to cut loose from Reddit but this would allow for sticky identities cross platform (unless I use Keybase instead for crypto identity attestation).
And now I’m thinking about just using a mailing list and hosted Discourse instance, and I don’t think Mastadon is a fit for this use case.
I'm partial to email lists, generally. They're still the open-standard leader, and offer the additional benefit that the directory is open, even to members, at least for active participants.
I'd also strongly recommend setting up an independent blog, with an RSS/Atom feed. If nothing else, that's a contact and notification point for further communications.
There's interesting stuff going on in the Federated space, but I don't see the options I've used (Diaspora*, Mastodon) as sufficient yet. These might be worth spinning up as an experiment though. See also Friendica and Hubzilla.
The D Language discussion is based on, of all things, NNTP (Usenet), though it also presents a Web-based front-end. That might be worth looking at. I do have concerns over Usenet at scale, but within a closed organisation and with a moderated newsgroup or groups, it should be viable.
Depending on your user-base, mobile support may be essential. That's ... something of a concern, though a good website design might be sufficient.
Otherwise, I'm not really enthusiastic about much of anything at the moment.
Reddit it is a shit filled dumpster fire. If you need something specific then go to the individual sub directly. It's my hope bots decimate most of the non technology subs on that site.
Unblock it when I need to ask a question in r/cscareerquestions, in my country's subreddit or to look at a discussion I found while searching on google.
Then I get sucked into it, browse the horrors of the front page for a while, get angry, and block it again.
It's poison.
The UI is not even the worse part(besides when you're trying to write a post), it's the content that's awful.
2) Only browse all.reddit.com, as there's no telling when a new subreddit will pop up that you'll enjoy.
3) Use the Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) to filter out any subreddits you see that you're not interested in. I currently have 3,557 subreddits blocked.
4) Create backups of your RES settings in case of disaster.
5) Use the ability to tag users as often as you deem necessary, and block the truly heinous users. You'll see those tags pop up often.