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+1 for Reddit API exodus.
Lemmy was sold to me as a Reddit replacement. And it is, superficially. I knew it wasn't going to be drop-in going in. But the longer I use it the more I think it's not really quite like Reddit, and never will be. And that's fine. Lemmy is its own character and I like it for what it is.
I still use Reddit. Lemmy doesn't scratch all the itches for me. But only old.reddit on the desktop and on mobile with a UI de-shittifying extension. I'm amazed they still offer it at all. Once that's cut off, something I've been bracing myself for for years, I'll consider the UX enshittification to have fully completed and I'll truly bail. I simply refuse to use their gentrified UI. And I'm tired as it is having to slap on compatibility layers just to keep their less terrible alternative on life support; I'm not going to do the same thing to make their mainstream UI somewhat more palatable.
I'm just as critical of Lemmy as I was of Reddit.
Lemmy is a very left leaning echo chamber and a lot of people dont want to hear counterpoints to their soap-box rantings.
I do love Lemmy, but theres a decent percentage of fucking whackadoodles on here too. Also I'm not installing Linux, stop asking.
The only thing we all have in common politically is that we don't think social media should be controlled by a handful of gigantic manipulative corporations.
Which extension?
OldLander
It's only available for Firefox.
Thanks! It's nice, just installed. The open old reddit button is super useful too, for search results landing on reddit.
In that case, you may get some mileage as well out of Old Reddit Redirect. It will automatically force all Reddit links to open in old Reddit for you.
Oh, I didn't know it is on firefox android. I use it on desktop firefox though.