Remember that Reddit is essentially a glorified news aggregator that also allows memes and porn and has NFT avatars for some fucking reason.

As far as I know, adding the RSS feed of a subreddit will keep working as usual, unless spez gets wind of it and kills it too, so don’t tell spez.

So, if you still need or want to read from a certain subreddit you can add /.rss at the end of the url. For example:

https://reddit.com/r/antiwork/.rss

I use newsboat on the desktop, because is a terminal based app and terminal based apps are BASED. There are many more fancy readers on desktop.

Also Feeder on mobile is pretty good, it’s available on F-Droid.

With that and moving to lemmy you might break free of your reddit addiction and not fall into the trap of using the crappy official app just to watch dank memes.

Also forget about Karma. I have over 200K karma on Reddit that is utterly useless. Touching grass is more pleasing than getting karma. You can read something on reddit from your RSS feed while touching grass too, multitasking.

  • Richie@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    I seem to be on an IP watchlist for Reddit now lmao. Any new account gets instantly banned now. I’ll get the first message welcoming me to Reddit, and then immediately after I get the permanently suspended message. And this all started just from my support of the Blackout and saying subs should absolutely go private indefinitely. So yeah, suffice to say Reddit is a dump.

    And in all honesty I was already slowly distancing myself from Reddit before shit popped off. The internet is simply noise. There are things that I like to keep updated with, but a lot of it is just noise. Discussions are more like arguments nowadays, so what do I even gain from publicly making a comment on a topic? Nobody gives a fuck whether or not I’m going to play that new video game, watch that new movie, etc., and the feeling is mutual because I know I don’t give a shit about what people do either.

    Anyway, sorry for the rant. Quick question about RSS though: is there any apps that can filter by keywords? So like, only send me notifications when it picks up something that matches the words that I want. Like, if I follow r/Apple for example, I’d want to be notified of new iOS updates.

    • whitehatbofh@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Sign up for a VPN. That should get you around the IP ban. Big providers like windscribe have lots of nodes you can use to change your ip address.

  • HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    I use newsboat on the desktop, because is a terminal based app and terminal based apps are BASED. There are many more fancy readers on desktop.

    Also Feeder on mobile is pretty good, it’s available on F-Droid.

    Haha, I did the exact same thing yesterday. Terminal based apps are indeed based.

    Also, you can use teddit instead if you don’t want to give traffic directly to reddit (as far as I know). It’s pretty easy: instead of adding /.rss, you add ?api&type=rss at the end. See here.

  • zombiepete@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    If someone would make an RSS reader with its own comments/threads independent of the stories themselves I could go straight to the app comments after reading only the headline to get shitty takes on stories I won’t read.

    The Reddit experience really isn’t that hard to recreate.

    • awsamation@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hear me out, giant text groups.

      Just make an open text group for every post, name it the headline, and you can have the full reddit experience in one non-reddit app.

  • Catsrules@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    The problem is at least for me, I really like to read comments about the given topic. Sure many of the comments were from people who only read the headline but still it was really nice to see the discussion about the news.

  • Scooter411@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Yep - very few subreddits I couldn’t find replacements for yet - so now they live in my rss feed.

  • slice@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    Just recently discovered that rss also works for YouTube. And this makes YouTube so much better for me now:) Nice to hear that it also works with Reddit