The greatest thing about Reddit is finding information on any old topic. For today, I wanted to dig deeper into My Dinner With Andre. RIF tried to open (he’s such a trooper 😢) and when that failed I went to the browser.
I really want nothing to do with supporting that site, but I do want to read these old discussions. Any advice?
I don’t think that there is anyway to do that, since the apis are closed. If you use some scraper, then it would still generate revenue for them.
You can use the Web Archive, if those posts are saved, you’ll see it without ever touching a reddit server. You can’t comment or give awards or anything, but you’re not locked out completely.
Or you can use a 3rd party app. The team behind Youtube Revanced have patched most of the major (Android) ones to still function afterwards. https://web.archive.org/web/20230705025421/https://www.reddit.com/r/AfterVanced/comments/14m3wgo/reddit_apps_for_which_patches_andor_patched/
Louis Malle is a boss, just thought I’d start with that.
But what did you even want that you could t get on IMDb or Wikipedia? There are plenty of places besides Reddit to chat about film
Are there? IMDb killed its boards like 10 years ago. I am unaware of other large scale movie discussion boards, Reddit has really taken that spot for me.
Whenever I finished a tv series it was nice closure to go through its subreddit and see all the takes, things I missed, etc. Old style media or just marter-of-factly summarizing the plot just doesn’t go as far.
Exactly what usually do as soon as I’m caught up. See the theories and missed connections for TV and book series.
I hope this will eventually also kick off here. For tech news, memes and doomscrolling lemmy is already full enough for my taste, but the casual users deep in fandoms have not arrived, yet, at least not in scale.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movies or TV community in my “all” scrolling. Lots of old memes tho.
Moviechat.org exists as the perfect substitute for the IMDb boards, it even has the old IMDb threads for all movies, series, etc. Check it out!
The boards were killed in 2017, so nowhere near 10 years ago, but it indeed feels longer.
Use Browser extensions to block all ads and trackers, don’t log in to your account. As an anonymous IP visiting the site you’re almost useless for them because you give them almost no data to sell to advertisers.
Works best with Firefox and uBlockOrigin and some tracker blockers like Privacy Badger. Also works on mobile since Firefox on mobile also supports extensions, however, the Reddit mobile experience is trash, whether you are in a browser or use their shitty app.
If you visit the site with an adblocker, I don’t see what revenue they would get.
