Anyone here use reddit as well? What’s your favourite Reddit app? Been trying to find a nice open source iOS app (I know - apple - but I don’t want to throw out something that still works).

@jenn Reddit feeds Amazon b/c it runs on AWS. So using reddit at all feeds a adversary. It may be hard to ditch altogether, but a phone app seems like an addiction-feeding way to give too much attention to Reddit & power to Amazon. If you limit yourself to using reddit on the desktop, it can help cut back on it. For the desktop, there is Simple Reddit terminal Viewer ("RTV") which is .

@resist1984 I’m pretty decent at regulating my phone use, but I am conscious of the possible reddit time waste. As for AWS, I don’t get as far as avoiding sites served by AWS or google. Props to those who find a way to do that, but I just take the trade off because SO many things are on those servers.

@jenn the fact that a huge portion of the world's services are in AWS is in itself cause for alarm - apart from the fact that Amazon is funding facial recognition to an extent that will ruin cities in the next ~8 or so years.

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@jenn Captial One bank's customer data was stored on AWS and an AWS contractor leaked their data. I don't even know how to detect when a bank uses AWS internally. The best we can do is at least avoid the cases that are noticeable (doing an nslookup on reddit shows AWS).

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