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.
if you dont have those settings, use redditisfun
It lets you download videos, hides all ads, and takes care of privacy concerns.
I have used it for almost an year now. And I recommend it.
[0]: https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit
[1]: https://f-droid.org/packages/ml.docilealligator.infinityforr...
Teddit.net is ok.
i.reddit.com or old.reddit.com can be faster.
Popular.pics if you just want images.
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.
I use Bacon Reader on my mobile devices.
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!
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/quxwoo/happy_c...
I've not completely abandoned Reddit. But I avoid the site where at all possible.
Also relevant:
"Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums" (2020)
https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30328120)
Top comment on that thread specifically addresses Reddit.
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.
Thoughts?
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.
I usually block it in /etc/hosts.
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.