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Are there other platforms you'd be willing to name that you see as being grassroots "for users by users"? I may want to look into some of them.

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You're on one right now. If that wasn't clear from my post.

Also, Reddit still manages ok on this front IMO. The only reason I stopped paying was that they doubled the price when they moved away from gold to whatever it is they call now.

Another one is tweakers.net in Holland.

Boards.ie in Ireland though I left that country years ago and I don't know how that site is fairing now.

Those are the main ones I can think of right now.

Reddit is doing everything they can to kill it though. It's gone from habitually including site:reddit.com in every google search to actively avoiding it on mobile.

I'm not going to install the app. Ever. I will never, ever, ever install reddit's app. No amount of nagging me will ever get me to install it ever.

I still use site:reddit.com for recommendations, I just use a third party app for viewing (rif is fun, aka "reddit is fun").

"reddit is fun is fun for reddit"

How do you get weblinks to open in that app?

Three dots, open in app. You need something that is associated to those links for the menu option to show though. (Firefox)

Is that Apollo for Reddit on the iOS app store?

I use https://apolloapp.io/ - heck a few weeks ago I realized I used it SO much I paid for it, not because I wanted any of its premium features, just because it has delivered so much value to me I decided to give its author some money.

I use Apollo (paid version) after Alien Blue got unusable and I still have the problem that sometimes links go to the mobile site in a browser within Apollo where I get bombarded with "download the Reddit app".

I wouldn't be surprised to see Reddit kill their API in the future.

They're probably sitting back taking notes on the bull in the china shop that is Musk owned Twitter

If you replace the reddit URL with i.reddit.com, you get the old mobile site, which was optimized for 533MHz devices. They sometimes put banners to redirect you to the newer design, but you can dismiss them

That’s great info thanks!

Good point. I forgot about the incessant app nagging because I use the old mobile interface and I don't really use reddit on mobile that much anymore.

However one of the things I do like is that they don't really interfere with the content. There's some really fringey communities on there like exhibitionists that would be banned by other platforms in 5 minutes because they really don't want to deal with the legal worries and stigmatization. Reddit leaves them alone, the only time they really close communities is when they become toxic.

I'm not a fan of Conde Nast but they could have done a lot worse with Reddit.

Same… and, yeah, it’s purely out of spite. The more you nag, the less likely I will do the thing.

I use site:reddit.com all day in Google though. It really is still somehow a reliable place for information.

What’s wrong with the app? I’m not using reddit very often, but the app seems ok.

Patreon still has some of this feel somehow - it feels more connected when I support someone

I think that's because not many people use their discovery. They usually end up from somewhere else. So they don't have that part to play with (eg charging money or using algorithms to recommend content that's profitable for them).

Also, their monetisation is pretty seamless because you come there with the intent to pay. So requests for payment don't feel out of place.

I guess for the people you patron it's less great now because I see many people moving to ko-fi.

I don't know if this fits what you were thinking of but I love rateyourmusic.com. Great community, great content, simple website.

Discogs.com

Trakt.tv

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