I’ve never been sentimental about a social media site but it’s sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It’s just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.
I’ll still be browsing it with Reeder 5. When they shut off RSS then I’ll be completely gone.
How does that work exactly? I’m still interested in Reddit for my sports subs like F1 to follow comments during live races. Does RSS work well as an alternative?
I don’t think RSS would work for that (it only seems to pull the content for the post itself, not the comments), but I’ve always used reddit-stream.com/ for live comments 😊 you can just take any link to a live thread (e.g. https://reddit.com/comments/145upmt/) and replace ‘reddit’ with ‘reddit-stream’ in the URL. It shows a live (updates every few seconds) feed of comments, and you can still comment if you link your reddit account.
That way you’re still not on the reddit site or giving them ad traffic, and it’s also a lot nicer to use as a bonus! I’d still prefer a fediverse alternative but it could be a good option for now
That’s awesome I’ll have to check that out. Thanks!