Check out !worldnews@lemmit.online. The admin of lemmit.online has set up a bot that fetches reddit posts via RSS, making it much easier to make the switch and of course not getting any ads.

Also, these posts can then be cross-posted to help us create more content on lemmy native communities. Although I do recommend removing most of the post body when cross-posting. Alternatively you can turn the cross-post into a native post as if you simply were sharing content that you’ve seen on reddit, but with the perk of not having to load reddit.

You can make requests for subs to fetch at !requests@lemmit.online.

In the end we’re just using lemmy and lemmit’s bot as a simple RSS reader, so nothing illegal or even remotely unethical happening here.

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    Ok, I really don’t get this.

    Why are y’all so focused on basically moving Reddit onto the Fediverse when you can just, y’know, either make new content that you want to see on the Fediverse… or just go back to using Reddit? Dunno about you guys, but I got away from Reddit because I don’t want the Fediverse to become Reddit 2.0 in terms of content and community - I was kind of hoping more for Fediverse communities and content, not Reddit communities and content on the Fediverse. If I wanted that, I’d go on Reddit.

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      The problem is that Reddit as it is now is a treasure trove of good comments by some very intelligent and knowledgeable people. You can find a good answers to most of questions by adding Reddit to the search on Google.

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        Reddit, and that information, is still there. If you want to avoid giving them hits for advertisers, I recommend trying out teddit.net. It doesn’t use the API, so is unaffected by the new changes.

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          More generally, use https://libredirect.github.io/ to avoid tracking and advertizers on a whole host of extremely hostile services. Eg, it automatically sends you to a third party Reddit proxy like teddit any time you click on a Reddit link.

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        I wouldn’t use Google for anything in 2023 partner. Not trying to troll your comment, but I think a lot of us just use it by habit. Given Google’s recent involvement with tracking ppl and DCMA takedowns, not to mention going after open source projects such as Invidious and YT-DL they’re no friend of our community. Just using their services let’s them monetize your data, hence supporting a company that stands against our values. I remember them removing applications from their autocomplete results like Kodi years ago, because the app “was used by pirates.” Give DDG or Brave Search a spin, once you’re used to it, it’s much better than staying on Google’s sinking ship, they’re killing themselves by selling the rankings of search results to the highest bidder versus yielding relevant information at this point.

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      Presumably because everyone else just wants reddit but less shit. If spez hadn’t decided to go insane and tank the usability of the site, yeah, I’d still be there. Fact of the matter is that reddit still has a bunch of content I want to see, but doesn’t exist over here.

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      Most people didn’t hate the content, they hated the sudden and rapid changes to reddit this month.

      Have you just stayed out of your news sections on the Fediverse?

      Also what is a Fediverse Community vs a Reddit Community to you?

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      My understanding is that some users dislike reddit but very much like their specific small communities in it. They want to maintain the value of their community without relying on Reddit to host the content, so they are trying to migrate to places like the Fediverse. With that being said, I only support that for smaller subs with their own established community culture. Also, transition is hard so some people want a few familiar landmarks while navigating this new land.