• @ZenGrammy
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    41 year ago

    I use Friendly social Browser on Android. It’s basically a wrapper for the mobile website and allows me to sort posts the way I want them, which is important to me. I don’t want the algorithm. I’ve used it for years. It works with quite a few different social media sites and doesn’t allow all the tracking. I have the Plus version and I’m allowed to turn off ads on both the app and Facebook and block “stories” and other silliness I don’t care for. I don’t know if the free version does all of that.

    • @takeda
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      21 year ago

      Is it still working? I remember there was a period of time when it was unusable.

      I then switched to Frost and now to SlimSocial for Facebook.

      • @ZenGrammy
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        21 year ago

        It sure is. It was much more buggy in the past but I don’t really see many issues now. My husband uses the official FB app and he complains about issues with it all the time. I think the number of bugs is comparable. I used to sometimes not have many comments load if I didn’t manually refresh but he had the same issue on his app at the time and refreshing didn’t help. I don’t use social media other than FB and all I really want is to see my family and friend’s posts sorted by Most Recent, and a few news profiles I follow, so it’s good enough for me.

    • Meldroc
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      21 year ago

      Think something like Friendly could be put together as a wrapper around old.reddit.com? Modifies the formatting to make it mobile-friendly.

      • @ZenGrammy
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        1 year ago

        It currently works with the official mobile site. It would be great if it were more like old reddit but I just opened it for the first time and it’s miles better than using Chrome on mobile for me just because of the ad blocker and ability to keep the feed from suggesting random shit.