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Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by wyldfire on Saturday September 10, 2022 @12:50PM (#32792323)
I have now stumbled onto "libreddit" [1].

> cloud Light: no JavaScript, no ads, no tracking, no bloat

I have been an addicted reddit user since before they had user accounts. I never had any desire to block reddit ads until the last ~6-12 months or so when it would autoplay ads when I scroll. I have "no thumbnails" so it doesn't show me the ad other than a line of text or so. I have "old" reddit enabled on my account -- this works for desktop. And now I've started using the explicit "old.reddit.com" on mobile. But I would prefer mobile-optimized reddit without audio ads. I will probably give libreddit a try.

[1] https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit

EDIT: of course, since it's privacy focused I can't login to my account and reddit is unbearable if you try and use it without your account to curate the subreddits. Whoops, scratch that idea!

Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by sorenjan on Saturday September 10, 2022 @01:33PM (#32792720)
I find that old.reddit.com is ok on desktop (with uBlock origin), and for mobile there's several third party apps that make for a better experience than a website. I personally like "Relay for reddit".
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by whalesalad on Saturday September 10, 2022 @04:54PM (#32794499)
Apollo is a perfect example of a 10/10 iOS app.
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by samstave on Saturday September 10, 2022 @08:51PM (#32795868)
Yup!

I’ve been on Reddit basically daily for 15 plus years…

I only use old.reddit with RES and UBO and I never see ads…

And my Information density this way is so much more enjoyable than anything the new shitty reddit can show!

New reddit is worse than new DIGG was.

But they are trying really hard to fuck up the UX via their new UI…

Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by grimgrin on Saturday September 10, 2022 @01:19PM (#32792594)
Just bookmark a multireddit url, ala: https://teddit.net/r/mud+dcss+cataclysmdda (in this thread I show you teddit, another privacy focused frontend)

teddit does actually have a subscription concept, accountless, but in general the multireddit solution would work for your libreddit example

https://teddit.net/about

    Teddit is a free and open source alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy.
    Teddit doesn't require you to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
    The source is available on Codeberg at https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit.

    No JavaScript or ads
    All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Reddit
    Prevents Reddit from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
    Lightweight (teddit frontpage: ~30 HTTP requests with ~270 KB of data downloaded vs. Reddit frontpage: ~190 HTTP requests with ~24 MB)
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by mawise on Saturday September 10, 2022 @01:29PM (#32792685)
You can even aubscribe to an rss feed of a subreddit, I think each has a rel="alternate" link to the feed url
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by Karrot_Kream on Saturday September 10, 2022 @06:35PM (#32795107)
I never understood why so many of these Reddit viewers have no JS in them (well it's generally a cultural preference among a certain crowd, but still feels irrational.) I usually open a forum like Reddit and have it open all day, I'd be fine with loading a SPA and having it make background requests to fetch API output and render them in page and give nice functionality, as long as the code is open and there's no ads. I've been building this myself because both Libreddit and Teddit don't use JS.
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by NetOpWibby on Sunday September 11, 2022 @12:13PM (#32800861)
Is your project ready for primetime yet?
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by thekingshorses on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:00PM (#32795246)
You can use my personal reddit site. https://reddit.premii.com

It has JS. Optimized for mobile. No tracking from my side.

Open in congnito for NSFW subreddits. Enable pictures/NSFW mode to load all pictures in line. Close it when you are done.

Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by NetOpWibby on Sunday September 11, 2022 @12:15PM (#32800883)
This is VERY nice on mobile, great job. Thanks for sharing.
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by nebul on Saturday September 10, 2022 @04:27PM (#32794332)
> mobile-optimized reddit without audio ads

I don't know if you've tried it already, but https://i.reddit.com might fit the bill.

Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by kornhole on Saturday September 10, 2022 @04:35PM (#32794378)
Infinity is found in F-droid store.
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by bioemerl on Saturday September 10, 2022 @08:36PM (#32795786)
Redreader is another option.
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by wyldfire on Saturday September 10, 2022 @10:21PM (#32796309)
Yeah - this is perfect, thanks!
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by visiblink on Saturday September 10, 2022 @01:51PM (#32792871)
On an Android device, Slide allows you to add subreddits without logging in. I follow several subreddits but have no account. I don't see any ads.

Go to the hamburger menu > settings > manage your subreddits.

Another mobile option is i.reddit.com.

Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by fluidcruft on Saturday September 10, 2022 @09:49PM (#32796148)
Unfortunately, Slide is abandoned by the author. He replied to an issue on github saying basically that he has no time to maintain it and that and that the code is a mess and needs to he completely rewritten from scratch so he doesn't recommend anyone else bother. Slowly but surely the bugs are mounting. There's so e new-fangked thing that's leaving blue boxes everywhere and videos are breaking again. And I think he also mentioned that the Play Store won't let him push small bug fixes without making another large change that he has no time to work on so it's defacto dead in the water now and will never be updated.

I've been trying Infinity from time to time which others have mentioned as the new OSS client, but it seems less textual than Slide. Sline also has great navigation that is immediately missed elsewhere.

(At least the Android version, dunno about the iOS)

Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by AtlasBarfed on Sunday September 11, 2022 @12:15AM (#32796765)
App stores are abominations.
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by bityard on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:34PM (#32793289)
RedReader is also a great choice on Android, I wish there was a native desktop version of it.
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by entropie on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:04PM (#32792989)
Did you know there is a rss feed for every subreddit?

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss

Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by visiblink on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:17PM (#32793119)
Yes, but if you want to read the comments associated with a post, the link takes you right back to the regular reddit site.
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by entropie on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:23PM (#32793185)
You can also read comments via rss, but I see that might just be to much effort.
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by visiblink on Saturday September 10, 2022 @03:36PM (#32793928)
I think so too. IIRC, you'd have to add a new feed for each thread.
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by linmob on Sunday September 11, 2022 @04:47AM (#32797941)
Try https://i.reddit.com/ on mobile.
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by jneumann004 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @03:05PM (#32793617)
With libressit you can subscribe to subreddits. It saves to your browsers localhost (just like their settings), nothing is sent to their server.
Re:Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone by nabakin on Saturday September 10, 2022 @10:23PM (#32796314)
> mobile-optimized reddit without audio ads

There are 3rd party mobile-optimized apps btw. Support logging in and most reddit features. I use Boost for Reddit personally, but there are others like Baconreader.