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  • Also maybe a niche case but since the source of your irritation is connection, I think it’s worth mentioning:

    If you use a certain VPN whose widget is for Debian/Ubuntu only in this family of distros coughcoughprotoncoughcough, please take the time to learn how to use the WireGuard integration from the VPN instead. The widget version if installed on Mint is way too prone to breaking, being a matter of when, and not if it will break. And WireGuard instead I have yet to see breaking on its own.



  • Dunno over on Reddit - wasn’t all too interested in open source when I used it. But people here seem overall friendly towards open source. So if I might suggest, also since Reddit doesn’t explain what the violation was so presumption of innocence for you kicks in, maybe remake the subreddit as a community here? Also decentralized governance should help mitigate powertripping management as Reddit is showing in recent years. At worst, you’d have to make the community again on another instance, but I haven’t seen the lemmy.world administration pick a bone with communities in the years I have been around, so should be safe, me thinks.


  • Maybe through the fediverse with @birb@rss-parrot.net? It’d be a plain RSS reader but publishing what it finds as posts.

    Not ideal if the intention is to keep using the Reddit app, but if the platform you use has an app and supports the bot’s posts (since they’re microblogs), maybe it could be an alternative?






  • 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.



  • 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.