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Re:Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what yo... by ddq on Saturday March 08, 2025 @03:07PM (#43303058)
I would love to completely cut reddit out of my life but would enjoy a smaller, more positive alternative that aims to provide the benefits of reddit when it was at its best but without the inherent flaws of the system's design and the dark patterns it is now known to encourage. I'm a bit put off by lemmy from my initial, cursory glance for a variety of reasons, but maybe I'm just using it wrong. Would love to hear suggestions that people have used for an extended time and would personally vouch for.
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Re:Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what yo... by nozzlegear on Saturday March 08, 2025 @10:30PM (#43305917)
I've quit Reddit off and on over the years, and one of my fears the first time was missing out on news or helpful tips from small professional/hobby subreddits. I ended up building a tool that would email me the top 3 posts from a list of subreddits every day, and that was all I needed to quit without feeling like I was missing out. My tool eventually broke after Reddit's api change, but now I use one called redditletter¹ which does the same thing.

¹ https://redditletter.com

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Re:Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what yo... by ffiirree on Sunday March 09, 2025 @08:08PM (#43315355)
Nice! May try this
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Re:Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what yo... by johnwarne on Monday March 10, 2025 @12:27AM (#43317013)
This was exactly the same kind of motivation that prompted me to create a RSS project to allow me to interact with platforms like Reddit/HN/Lemmy in a more low-volume and healthy way, subscribing to just the top posts in my RSS reader with rich custom feeds.

https://www.upvote-rss.com

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Re:Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what yo... by gradientsrneat on Sunday March 09, 2025 @03:00PM (#43312431)
Lemmy was founded by tankie Reddit expats, and the project has had super weird issues in the past like a hardcoded blacklist and no RSS feed support for a while. So, I can't say it's for me either. Would be nice to have a viable Reddit alternative. Although Reddit does still have RSS feeds, and Hacker News does scratch the itch for certain topics.
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Re:Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what yo... by edgarischatting on Friday March 14, 2025 @12:38PM (#43364328)
If you happen to use Reddit in a browser, Safari, then check out Protego for Reddit. You can add keyword filters to hide posts based on keywords, such as political terms. Makes browsing Reddit more positive for sure.
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