The day either 'i.reddit.com' or 'old.reddit.com' stop working, Reddit will never again receive a visit from me. To other readers, i.reddit.com will solve all your mobile woes.

As for me, I find the front page to already be a cesspool of pretty shallow political takes, star wars memes, gaming news and awful twitter screenshots, all of which are pretty repulsive. I also get the sense that Reddit is used more by a new generation of kids, about half my age. I guess one of the disadvantages of being over thirty is that you lose the appetite to engage with teenagers/early-20s people who are on their own journey towards maturity.

There's also teddit.net, a reddit mirror that uses the reddit API to present a light weight skin. It is a bit too slow for me, and the features are pretty lacking. I don't think a spartan "no javascript" take is what's needed to cure the garbage that is full reddit web experience. Still it's a good first attempt.

I'm hoping someone will come along and create a lean, mean, yet functional semantic reddit web frontend.... That is, before reddit kills their API.

And full-blown, federated Reddit alternative: https://join.lemmy.ml/