The greatest thing about Reddit is finding information on any old topic. For today, I wanted to dig deeper into My Dinner With Andre. RIF tried to open (he’s such a trooper 😢) and when that failed I went to the browser.
I really want nothing to do with supporting that site, but I do want to read these old discussions. Any advice?
Just stop going to the site. It’s that simple.
uBlock Origin and uBlock extension combined give really good ad blocking alone. Combine it with a DNS solution in your router like AdGuard and you won’t have to deal with ads at all.
Simultaneously gives the middle finger to reddit because they live on ads.
You’re still a MAU statistic that they will sell upon their IPO
+1 for ublock origin 🙏
Use Browser extensions to block all ads and trackers, don’t log in to your account. As an anonymous IP visiting the site you’re almost useless for them because you give them almost no data to sell to advertisers.
Works best with Firefox and uBlockOrigin and some tracker blockers like Privacy Badger. Also works on mobile since Firefox on mobile also supports extensions, however, the Reddit mobile experience is trash, whether you are in a browser or use their shitty app.
Then can still get some information off your IP address like geolocation for example
You could use a VPN for that
Also change your browser user agent with user agent switcher to something useless to them
When you get to a Reddit thread via Google or other search engines you can request a cached version of it.
I use an app from F-Droid called Stealth
libreddit.hu is a good alternative Reddit frontend.
A lot of people edited and deleted old posts before vacating Reddit. Even if what you want were possible, the posts might no longer be there.
http://mlmym.org/ mimics old Reddit and just pulls through any Lemmy instance you’re using, so you don’t have to change anything you’re already doing and it feels like home. if you like it, please spread it, I only found it because somebody mentioned it.
I am using rtv, run with my own API key. https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv
RiF is still working for me, but I can’t log in. Just a couple of taps to check out my old subs. The pain of it reminds me to keep a distance.
Louis Malle is a boss, just thought I’d start with that.
But what did you even want that you could t get on IMDb or Wikipedia? There are plenty of places besides Reddit to chat about film
Are there? IMDb killed its boards like 10 years ago. I am unaware of other large scale movie discussion boards, Reddit has really taken that spot for me.
Whenever I finished a tv series it was nice closure to go through its subreddit and see all the takes, things I missed, etc. Old style media or just marter-of-factly summarizing the plot just doesn’t go as far.
https://browse.feddit.de/ This will show you every community there is on Lemmy. It won’t help with the old discussions, but may help you find some new communities you didn’t know about. I find it best to either just scroll through the list as is, or if using the search bar, to type maybe half the word I’m looking for and give it a few seconds to search.
