Also pushing for DRM-free contents, and understanding the only plan being destruction only benefits those who discreetly hoard power.

And tangential, but money is trivial when one has power. Plus, these companies seem to just joard control, while answering to centralizing countries. So I would wonder if truly the intent is “capitalism”, with whatever negative adjectives are added to further distort the combined notion of free market, minimalist state and meritocracy.

If a tool can display embedded videos, or download them, there are some that come to mind.

A “FeedHub” extension I found on the Chrome store while testing some things some months back could play embedded videos.

Newsboat, though not having an internal player, can download the videos iirc, which is halfway there (requires some setting up beforehand).

Grayjay, an aggregator for Youtube, Rumble, Soundcloud, etc., can fetch through RSS Youtube videos specifically as an option to avoid timeouts (sadly no Odysee, NicoNico or Peertube’s RSS integration).

Also the fediverse softwares I tested most can play embedded videos and there are RSS-tracking bots around which you can use to turn your feed also on a RSS reader.

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Maybe your service has some sort of IP leak? Heard it could be a thing but I don’t know how to troubleshoot - still, maybe worth the mention. Also Reddit’s IP bans are so easy to spread it feels they’re doing a “plandemic”, like they’re intentionally trying to kill the site. They’re also trigger-happy for banning by a lot of other reasons, so impressed you didn’t get the hammer before.

But alas, here in the fediverse, even if some administration or moderation pulls a similar BS, at least you can easily find a new home. But usually admins and mods are chill from what I observe.

And if you must still follow Reddit posts, though now anonymously, maybe check @birb@rss-parrot.net, since subreddits and users have RSS natively through old.reddit.com. Microblogging (e.g. Mastodon) bot though.

Biggest loss if/when Old Reddit is removed would be RSS. Browsing the site otherwise is painful.

Truly feels like the management’s intent is to run the site to the ground, creating animosity any way they can.

Similar to Facebook’s old design, I would presume redirecting scripts should work as long as the interface is available. And with Facebook, once they started removing means to access the old design, new removals were ever quicker.

I don’t think this community is for travel questions. Maybe better to post/crosspost to !travel@lemmy.ml, !Travel@crazypeople.online, and/or !france@jlai.lu.

I call these the “2010’s platforms”:

Walled gardens where the walls are mainly the addiction and dependence they cause.

Though most are from before 2010, by the beginning of the decade, these started shifting to the bad design we have today.

And borrowing from an analysis I saw, iirc of power through economic mismamanegement, these platforms need to keep inflating their presence to keep being relevant. But the more they inflate, the more they need to keep inflating, else their castle of cards come crumbling.

But as cracks start to appear, which I’d interpret as them becoming so big their problems are too hard to ignore even for “normies”, or even the problems growing to that same result, people start jumping ship, and the platforms start panicking. But with these platforms having no concept of true relevance, then we get to the alienation as damage control.

IPs may be shared among users though. If another user tried the same but made a previous, blacklisted IP visible, he may have tarnished one of the VPN IPs too.

About what’s Reddit’s intention, I can only conjecture, but I get the impression they are intentionally self-sabotaging. And trying to think who or how someone would benefit from this, the only thing that comes to mind is that they’re destroying the legacy of the biggest public forum.

This, extrapolating, would potentially force people to go to platforms that require accounts, which sounds even more suspicious when considering the verification laws and policies that are increasingly being pushed since around October last year.

About VPN, Reddit apparently does IP bans and automatically considers a new account made in a same IP of a banned account as an evasion attempt, which given VPNs, spreads like a disease, like they’re setting up a digital pandemic - or should I say “a plandemic”.

Ani.Social being a Lemmy instance.

Also sadly that requires having an account. Also, PieFed iirc has curated feeds, something Lemmy copying wouldn’t be half bad, I think.

About defaulting to subscriptions, there actually is a way through the settings:

Alternatively, intentionally loosen the precautions, at least at first, seeing how the system ticks. Then, when things start getting unstable, make a new clean install of the system and do it all over again, but with the previous issues already in mind so you can avoid them.

Iirc there’s a saying that only those who fall know how to stand up. If you can afford the time investment, it’s a golden opportunity to learn.

Reddit’s community, as in the whole, feels like it plays by some unwritten rules where straying just a bit from those causes maximum persecution. And though I understand each platform has a culture, including here on the fediverse, Reddit’s I don’t feel like culture either.

About adressing your fediverse concerns, I second the idea of curating your experience by blocking, subscribing, and manually looking the community list as needed. Furthermore, I’d also suggest keeping an eye on where the posts that cause you to be annoyed come from, since those not uncommonly come from the same places.

Reddit is so rigid about ban evasions that you could say it never forgets. Best I could suggest you already did, to make an appeal, so now all you can do is wait. But since I haven’t heard of anyone recovering theirs, I’d not hold my breath to have a solution any year soon (intentionally swapped “time” for “year”).

And while not ideal, I’d suggest using RSS-tracking bots here on the fediverse to follow subreddits (every subreddit has an RSS feed), and comment on the bot’s posts instead. Would also tackle the concern from Ani.Social’s administration of such bots having too little engagement to justify their presence now that the fediverse has a healthy active userbase.

DLsite allows users to translate their manga, paying a commission to the translators when people get the translated version. If availability, or lack thereof, is the problem, it could work too.

Greetings! Hope you like your stay!

If you’d like to also explore options, there’s Mastodon for followinf Twitter-like posts (and also PixelFed, NeoDB, WordPress, etc.), Friendica and Mbin for following both Twitter and Reddit-like posts, and PieFed as a direct alternative to Lemmy specifically.

And tip, Lemmy has a native per-post, post-hiding feature, at the 3 dots of a given post. Mastodon has too, and most softwares I’ve tested work well with Ublock Origin filters and/or scripts for hiding posts (e.g. if liked/disliked).

Also if you watch on browsers, there’s @birb@rss-parrot.net (not compatible with Lemmy specifically though)

Grayjay mainly. PipePipe which still works for me (check if yours is updated) to get individual RSS or channel links.

I’d try keeping requests to a minimum, like with putting everything to download and watching those instead (e.g. with yt-dlp or Grayjay’s Watch Later playlist set to auto-download), using RSS on another device/IP (e.g. with a VPS, @birb@rss-parrot.net on Mastodon or a phone/Raspberry Pi on another connection) then forwarding over to your main device, avoiding requesting all subscriptions in a row (e.g. Grayjay’s Subscription tab or having a too aggressive refresh/fetch setting on an RSS reader), rebooting your phone when issues start (if it’s a cache/memory leak issue), and/or using a VPN and changing servers as needed.