One of the things I love about Hexbear is that it works fantastically under Firefox on Android. It loads fast and it loads with a great layout. It's obvious that whoever is maintaining the layout code is testing against mobile Firefox, and if anyone reading this is involved in that testing, I really appreciate your work.

I deleted my last Reddit account a few weeks ago. I kept it around that long because there's a surprisingly useful and active and non-chuddish subreddit for my home city. But I decided to just bite the bullet and stop going there.

It's slightly less unusable with old.reddit.com which gives you a previous, less enshittified, UI. It is definitely even worse on mobile because it tries really hard to push you onto their shitty app

It is kinda funny how they are destroying the internet by trying to make money off of it but unlike the real world analog of, say, clear cutting a forest and having wood to sell they still really haven't figured out how to make money off the destruction. They're making heaps in the destroying, sure, but there's nothing left over after they do it to drag to market. It's all just outside money getting dragged into the process. There's no gold in them there hills but they're making money selling the mining equipment.

I think some subs have a karma minimum, or account age minimum, so your post may have been removed by an automod.

Edit: yes it's buggy as shit though so wouldn't rule other stuff out either/the automod actions aren't configured to give an error message of the 'reason' for post/comment removal

Haven't used reddit in years now. In the rare event I want to view a reddit page, I run the old.reddit.com page through an archive service since it blocks my VPN.

Has anyone seen the Mastodon server bird.makeup? It basically proxies Twitter accounts and rehosts them as Mastodon accounts. Is there anything like that for reddit and Lemmy?

edit: project source code. Also supports instagram at: kilogram.makeup. Apparently, reddit support is being worked on.

I was really only using it with a stripped down third party app, because the site was such a turd on mobile. even the old.reddit interface was too clunky.

when they cut off API access, that was it for me. I heard about the FOSS alternative that would allow third party apps and found a chill, minimalist one and here I am. overwrote all my posts and then nuked my account.

sometimes if I'm on desktop I'll look for shit on reddit, like archived recommendations or niche hobby shit. I use the old.reddit interface for that, but I find it to be unusable for casual scrolling or interaction. that's not even getting into how fucked it is as an astroturfed content aggregator.

made me realize that I need to convert all my casual comms to foss shit eventually to avoid all the eventual enshitification.

Any time I tried to post "You post was automatically removed" no explanation.

In general - if I post in a new sub - I don't bother to read the rules. Half the time I bet mods don't know what the rules are exactly. I've got better things to do with my time than to learn that the removal bot will site Rule 7.2 sub paragraph 3. But that comment doesn't even make any sense because 7.2 only has two paragraphs.

This site is also broken

You don't need it, Reddit doesn't even have

If you want to doom scroll for over like 45 minutes, you still have to reddit if you don't want the content to run dry. Current lems biggest weakness is not enough users/contributors. Keeps getting better. Just slowly. Not like the migration slam from Digg to Reddit was.

Sometimes I think Lemmy's existing UI is a hot mess and feel bad about my inability to keep up with fixing all the issues. Hearing how much of a dumpster fire Reddit has become makes me feel much better about myself.