I am looking for a free, privacy‑centric app for endless doom‑scrolling that serves as an alternative to Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook—without the need for social connections, or chatting.

  • yessikg@fedia.io
    12·
    3 days ago

    If you just want to doom scroll you can use a fediverse app that connects to the microblog side of fedi and just browse the global feed. This will probably work best if you join a big instance that federates with tons of instances

  • Ludicrous0251@piefed.zipEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    I mean, it seems like you found it, but if Lemmy isn’t your speed, perhaps set up an RSS reader like Feeder and get your doom piped straight in from the source.

    ETA: I’ve got Feeder set up with ~50 sources ranging from general news to science, tech, environment, and FOSS news, and blogs from organizations I support. I’ve got several hours worth of scrolling (more if I stop to digest more articles) loaded in fresh every day. Thousands of articles in the backlog… I’ll get caught up…

  • Sophocles@infosec.pub
    3·
    3 days ago

    Tumblr works well provided you are in to that kind of posting/fandom. They haven’t enshittified their web ui, so you can access the website without the use of their app. You can easily sign up with an email alias and use a VPN for location/IP.

    Firefox and its forks like Fennec and Iceraven let you install a website as an “app” and the feel is essentially the same (on android, not sure about ios). Slap on Ublock Origin, Privacy Badger, and Noscript and isolate in a sandbox or work profile and you have a pretty good setup, despite using a mainstream service.

    There’s also the fediverse ofc. Pixelfed offers an experience like Instagram, and Loops is similar to TikTok/Shorts but with smaller communities and creators.