just wait, reddit is 100% going to sunset old.reddit within the next year
I had déjà vu during spez’s AMA stating that old Reddit will always exist. He stated the same thing a few years back with third party apps. I don’t trust anything that slimy fuck says.
Spez said they wouldn’t, so they probably will.
I just tried it and got “unable to connect”.
Android, Firefox.
Seems entirety of reddit had a brief downtime earlier according to some other thread that I can’t find anymore
It’s loading for me. YMMV
some of my best friends are useless idiot communists!
@fuser I can see one downvote on this comment. It would be so funny if that one person is one of your friends. xD Just joking, but I want believe it!
Friends don’t let friends downvote useless idiot communists!
Calm down, Mr. Oppenheimer.
If someone thinks that Lemmy is “full of useless idiot communists”, they’re probably ignorant, argumentative, and more trouble than they’re worth. If/when they grow up, they’re welcome to join us!
It’s worse: ignorance is humanity’s curse and argumentativeness has its good signs, but assumptiveness is trash on both moral and epistemic levels. And the user in question is being assumptive, as he’s vomiting certainty over a group of people who he really don’t know.
Another character flaw (yup) that the user is showing is lack of basic reading comprehension. As OP hinted it’s that kind of user who should be left behind.
Let these people be miserable on Reddit. I’m worried if they come here, it’ll become more toxic.
Well, Reddit is known to have a toxic community. I mean, when someone tells about Reddit irl then they get the “you’re an idiot” look from strangers. Like, we all know how deeply censored Reddit is. Now it’s dead for a slew of people in favor of Lemmy, ain’t it nice?
Seconded!
Though perhaps the redditor should have mentioned kbin instead of lemmy - that would have totally worked.
They probably won’t like the communists here, either.
I can’t argue with that!
lol, lemmygrad.ml isn’t a kbin instance.
Not the OP redditor but the replying redditor.
Oh, some of the assholes came here during the initial migration too. Plenty of them, but they get shut down quicker here
Well I’m not communist yet I am here. Not everyone on Lemmy is one.
Lemmy/Kbin user here. Hardcore Capitalist and absolutely hate Communism.
Yeah, here it totally works. Couldn’t say that on Mastodon. Almost everything is left oriented there.
It’s true. It’s why I feel that Mastodon will never replace Twitter. It’s too much of a left wing circlejerk / bubble, and they’re actively hostile to even moderate viewpoints. much less actually conservative ones.
I’m probably in the minority in this, but I believe that even people I don’t agree with should have a platform and be tolerated as long as they’re reasonable and willing to compromise and show respect, as long as they’re not racist nazi nutjobs.
The world isn’t exclusively made up of one set of ideas, and you shouldn’t shut out 75% of all viewpoints just because they don’t agree with yours, imo.
@esty To be fair, the suggestion to use these extensions is good. But I prefer Firefox. It was the only way I could use Reddit. kbin and Lemmy are useable by default, even though it has some problems too. And dense people are everywhere, in Reddit, in Lemmy, in kbin, in Twitter. That does not mean everyone is one. Just the chance to hit an idiot is higher on Reddit and Twitter, because idiots would never consider switching from mainstream and shit on others.
And that’s good. Good people switch, idiots stay on Reddit. Best filter ever. :D
They’re not entirely wrong.
- A useless idiot communist
I take exception to bring called… a communist
What’s wrong with being a communist? EDIT: /s
Sincerely,
A filthy hippy socialist witch.deleted by creator
If someone is “authoritarian tankie trash” (which is a form of Othering FYI), then they’re not actually communist are they? They’re Authoritarian.
Authoritarian and Totalitarian organisations/governments have been co-opting “communism” and “socialism” for many years as a way to doublespeak legitimise themselves. But they can label themselves communist/socialist until the cows come home, doesn’t make it true.
Even a small barrier to entry greatly improves the signal to noise ratio in discussions, so I view the (very) minor challenge of getting into the Fediverse to be a much appreciated feature.
It’s also why I am a big fan of Beehaw’s signup process, which ask you open-ended questions to answer.
They’re probably just salty their last comment didn’t give them a lot of karma.
Maybe they’re just salty because they got into an argument with another redditor in another sub.
Honestly, almost every post I saw on any sub in Reddit had at least one dumbass trying to insult and argue everyone over nothing.
I gladly see less of that here, makes me want to interact more.
It doesn’t matter what theme you’ll use.
It doesn’t matter what extension you’ll use.
If that community will behave similarly before and after using said theme and extension, then maybe it’s the community. Great example shown here from the “helper”.
Legit though, if you for some reason need to use Reddit on mobile:
Firefox Nightly > unlock the extended addon collection support > create an addon collection with uBlock, res, and Old.reddit redirect > import to Firefox Nightly.
Boom. Old.reddit on the phone, it never ever sends you to the mobile site.
Now mind you, it’s a janky user experience using old.reddit on mobile, and they’ll sunset old.reddit soon, but if you absolutely need it, there ya go.
