I used to love Reddit. Back in the day, it was awesome, you had customizable commands for niche communities and you had enough control over the feed so as to not see bs all the time. My only prior experiences with social media had been Facebook and Twitter so the bar was really low, yet I loved it. Now it’s just a horrible site to navigate. I have like 3 communities that make up 80% of my main feeds and for the life of me I can’t seem to find a single human. Like all accounts are generic names with the same pattern: quirky writing style, posts and comments like crazy in maybe 3 communities, and is like less than 4 years old. Why? Why does this make sense to them? Who are they serving ads to?
I didn’t know about libreddit, will definitely be checking it out!
Just a heads up: libreddit rebranded as redlib, you’ll save a few clicks if you search for that one instead
How is using it read—only any better?
It’s technically not, but it’s what redlib can do.
Personally, I simply decided to contribute as little as possible to Reddit, and I only go there for a single niche subreddit that I don’t see making it into the fediverse anytime soon (they already tried on Lemmy); I pray that scraped old.reddit.com requests have a negligible impact on engagement metrics.