I haven’t been watching that many videos recently, so the slowdowns haven’t been really affecting me much, but when piped.video doesn’t load anything at times, I temporarily switch to il.ax, only because the name’s short and easy to remember (:
some good resources listed over here: https://calckey.social/notes/9el0v5d2do
I’ve been using Piped and LibreTube for quite a while (and Invidious and Newpipe before that for an even longer while) and they’re great.
it’s really annoying. for people gaming on Linux systems there’s this genius project called ProtonGE, a customized version of Valve’s Proton that lets you played Windows games with some additional enhancements over Valve’s version. there’s a Github page that hosts the code and releases, but the readme file says that if you have any issues, you have to contact the developer on Discord. like… why? the issue tracker is literally right there, viewable for everyone without having to create an account. how’s a glorified instant messenger better at tracking issues than the interface that’s been specifically made for that purpose?!
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I’ve been using Reddit less and less over the past few months, but if they won’t let me access it using Infinity or Sync, I’m probably out for good.
it’s also (pleasantly) surprising to me that they’re still keeping old reddit around.
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They say that usage of third party apps is increasing over time
I guess more people are starting to realize how much of hot garbage the official client is. good.
They raised the question of what would happen if such apps became the majority,
oh you mean the way it used to be for years before they’ve released the pile of steaming shit that incidentally doubles as a reddit browser?
no ads and more customizability. last time I checked (and I’ve been checking multiple times over the years), the official client didn’t even let me change the post and comment font size, which is by default too small for me. at the same time, I don’t need huge-ass cards for every post and switch view to just post title with small thumbnails. I can sort subreddits I follow the way I want to, with the ones I visit most frequently on top of my list. I can add labels next to usernames with notes about the users. when I’m writing a post, there are buttons that help with quick markdown formatting. the comment section has got colorful depth markers so it’s easier to keep track of the chains. even the UI integrates better with the rest of my OS. in comparison to that, the official app is a crippled mess that is only good enough when all you do is scroll through auto-playing gifs and videos, and it doesn’t even support some of the native reddit features (like opening categories of your saved posts - a reddit gold Premium feature) that the third party clients do.
there already are Revanced patches for the official reddit app, although even without the ads it doesn’t hold a candle to the third party clients.
from the Play Store screenshots, it looks like it still sorts messages from different services into different tabs, doesn’t it?
I miss Disa. it uses to let you use SMS, Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp (and I think Telegram?), and you could merge conversations at will, which means that you could get all messages from a contact in one conversation view, regardless of the service it came through.
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so far it only seems that it affects burner accounts that people have made specifically to use with Aurora.