Why YSK: If you use a VPN, (which you likely have at some point) you have probably encountered this:
really annoying! Today I had enough and googled a way around it.
Here’s the instance that i used today as an example:
https://redlib.ducks.party/
github repo for more information & other instances:
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
It’s not possible to interact with any of the information like replying or upvoting, but for simply getting a niche question answered it’s pretty helpful.
Not fully related, but I would only recommend it for information that isn’t on lemmy, it’s best to try to move content over to here if possible.
I kinda want to make some communities for stuff I have to use reddit for, but I mainly use Voyager (mobile) which doesn’t have all the options to operate a server and I wouldn’t want to get in trouble if I fail to moderate it properly or something. Also I have no experience.
yes, but: why would I want to?
Porn
TV show discussions
It’s non-existent on Lemmy
There are many subreddits on Reddit with no analog on the Threadiverse.
There are also a number of subreddits that contain information not available elsewhere.
I don’t log in to Reddit anymore, but I’ll search for answers on Reddit and skim a couple of communities read-only.
I don’t lurk there but there are years and years of questions and answers that are frequently relevant to what I’m trying to figure out
For this use case, using an alternative like Redlib, libreddit etc is probably a better experience than being able to access Reddit.
I use r/arabs and r/latin, which barely has an equivalent on lemmy at all.
And there are subreddits for niche games/software/hobbies, which also do not exist on lemmy.
I started a RDR2 play through a while back and I was shocked at how much content I was finding in Reddit comments for the random stuff I was looking up.
For certain niches over the past decade, it really is a treasure trove 😔