Wondering how to fill the void if I go off Reddit for good. Though I absolutely abhor what’s happening, there are certain subreddits that over the years have become the only online source of updates about things I cared about…
I can’t help you with your specific updates, but I just wanted to share my experience since the blackout: I only used Lemmy since then and as you know here is less content and less comments, but instead of looking into reddit I just did other things I like, but rarely did because doom scrolling was always the number one. Now I look through Lemmy and maybe spend 1 hour per day. Reddit was 3-6 per day I would say. Now I started to read a book and went through the photo backlog I wanted to sort. So when “filling the void” means “time killing”, then I can recommend to take a step back and do what you like to do but didn’t because of reddit.
RSS reader? Reddit (at least for now…) has RSS feeds for every subreddit. You could add the feed to your reader, and use full text extraction to get the posts so you don’t have to load Reddit directly.
@projectmoon Yeah. Have this setup already but not sure of the technical side of things. I mean, the way things are going, isn’t there a possibility that RSS subscriptions are also stopped if one of the underlying goals is to direct people towards their shitty app?
Been thinking about and exploring alternatives to Reddit as a result…
It is quite possible that Reddit will get rid of its RSS feeds.
I never knew this! Time to learn how rss feeds work