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  • Boe6@beehaw.orgEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    Yeah this is the main reason I won’t be giving up reddit 100% once the 3rd party apps go down. I definitely won’t be doom scrolling on my phone like I used to, but I 100% will still use reddit on my desktop as a research tool. There’s just nothing else like it for the amount of quality niche information atm.

    • Faendol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Same, I’ve got an ad blocker and I won’t be using it for content. But reddit still has an amazing repertoire of knowledge.

    • TechyDad@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      If I’m forced to the official Reddit app, I’ll go from following 30+ subreddits to only 5 or 6. And even those, I’ll likely comment less on.

      There are communities like /r/LEGO that I don’t know of a replacement for. (Maybe there could be a thread where people post the Reddit communities that they miss and people reply with alternatives. Someone could even keep a list to make it easy to search.

    • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I wonder how long that’s going to hold. If they’re blocking google api to read for their AI, they also have to block google search (or else google not being stupid will just feed the seach readout into their AI).