Users Furious as Reddit Intentionally Breaks Its Mobile Website, Demanding Users Download Its App Instead

I think they’re keeping it around as a dirty little secret that either leadership doesn’t acknowledge or they realize it’s the last bastion of their power user base.

To that end, I hope it sticks around for a while, but if they ever get rid of it, I think the only ones left would be noobs and bots.

LibRedirect addon allows one to change links to reddit's and other sites' mirrors instead.

I thrive on the old subdomain, yeah. The new form with variable popup-like post frames depending on how you approached the content is barely even tolerable, and certainly much less appealing.

By the way, Slide works really well (again); that's the mobile app that I use. You just have to go through the steps to list yourself as an app developer and claim it's your app, which the current Slide maintainer literally instructs you to do to use the app lol. It's great and cuts through all the crap. However, I'm really trying to be more active here across Lemmy, all the same. If Old and the remaining mobile apps like Slide go, then I'm totally out.

What do you need to craft in your life besides building the perfect Linux distro? /s

On a side note, how do you find Reddit vs Ravelry for knitting?

And a LOT of really odd niche stuff. The biggest nerds migrated to here.

That's our intellectual property! For various values of "intellectual".

Just search on one of the AIs that scraped Reddit.

Who on lemmy uses outlook???

I view Reddit for that kind of stuff, still. But don't participate.

At risk of posting a long list of grievences, well, I'm not giving them my engagement. And for reference/issue stuff, you largely don't need it.

I'm new and enjoying the rarity of morons compared to Reddit.

With posts like that, I'm sure you are approached a lot.

If browsing is all you need, I'm quite content with Stealth.

I like lemmy but there is just not enough content, it's like if reddit was youtube, lemmy is dailymotion, there's just not enough content for me to stick just here

Well, "Be the change you want to see in the world." - Ghandi. Keep cross-posting stuff from there to here. It takes real work to build up massive, highly active communities. Lemmy is a nonprofit so it doesn't have the marketing power of Reddit. We have to grow it ourselves and usage is the biggest way.

I buy used all the time and once never used fb marketplace. I promise you it's easier to replace than reddit.

"I stole my girlfriend's dog and emptied her bank account without her knowledge and now she's mad at me for some reason. AITA?"

Wouldn’t that mean someone who likes enshitification? Which is what OP implied. But using the term enshitified means the person themselves has gone through the enshitification process. Maybe then one implies the other?

Let me try to help.

Listen up, blue hair, soy boy, beta cuck. I'll gladly pay out the ass for gas so trans people don't get to place 4th place in college badminton that I was previously unaware of.

Does that do it for you?

Most of them on Reddit are bots dude.

The investors aren't wondering why it died, they're wondering why they waited so long to kill it for profit before moving onto another thing to kill for profit. They know enough about business to know their actions will destroy the site, but they also know that the money they make just beforehand is enough to make a good return on their investment before they leave. That's the issue with making a system motivated by profit; it's profitable to run a business well for a long time, but it's even more profitable to run it poorly for a short time and then leave.

That's just capitalism working as intended.

Iyeah those were fun. The original place, Reddit Mold, they were pretty creative.

I got stood up by my original secret Santa in like 2011 and the replacement hand knitted me a scarf!

The comments don't have the vibe like on lemmy.
I wouldnt call it "hollow" but it's close or adjacent to it. Maybe superficial?

Bots?

Literally, any time I have been on there lately (which is much less often) it is very obvious the majority of replies in large communities are bots/AI slop. It is so ridiculous and sad to see what it has become.

"More bot spam!"

How bout fuckin no.

I get what you say, but people already mirror Reddit posts on Lemmy, and post Lemmy content on Reddit

Then there's some of us who simply got kicked out of the Reddit realm altogether

I would have switched sooner if I had known about lemmy, but been here over a year now.

That's my situation. I nuked my comment history with a script when it was obvious they wanted to profit off of ai scraping. I still look at old reddit.com in my desktop, but I don't touch it on mobile.

We can yell into the abyss all we want, but the abyss isn't yelling back.

i lurk on youtubers fan subs, the ones that arnt controlled by youtubers themselves(to deflect criticism)

Are the extended warranties offered by the dealership worth it?

Not in my opinion but it depends how you’ll be using the trailer. The thing people don’t expect is that warranty work gets last priority. When you bring in the trailer for warranty work, there is no new revenue for the dealership. So the trailer will just sit there on the lot, possibly for months, waiting until the repair guys have literally nothing else to do, before they will actually start work on it.

This is super unprofessional but seems to be the industry norm.

If you’re only going to use the trailer a couple times a year maybe this is fine, but if you use it a lot and you need to be back on the road fast then it makes the warranty basically unusable.

Plus also what you said, unless you bought from a national dealer the warranty will not help you with emergency roadside stuff. But mostly when things break it won’t stop you from towing the trailer — you would just finish your vacation with no refrigerator or whatever which is annoying but not fatal.

I live in mine full-time. When things break that I can’t fix myself my first choice is a mobile tech so I don’t have to get a hotel while they fix it.

Do you have any experience with harvest hosts?

No, I haven’t tried it. Some people seem to like it a lot, other people complain. 🤷

I got a 21ft geo pro. Probably too big for a lot of boondocking, but i still plan to boondock it as much as possible. I dont love the idea of always being at KOAs and such.

21’ is not too big for boondocking. The thing about boondocking is you have to somehow know where to find a good spot. iOverlander website is good for that. Out west, especially in the desert, there are lots of places on public land where there is a usable gravel road with big cleared sites that anyone can get to in any size RV. Other places where it rains more, not so much — tight twisty potholed dirt roads through the forest with little carve-out spots between trees are not good for big setups. Regional parks, state parks, natural forest parks, and national parks are often pretty awesome. There’s also a lot of RV parks out in the middle of nowhere that can be super nice and park-y — shout out to La Conner thousand trails in WA, Pacific City thousand trails in OR, “The Narrows” in Maine — but very hit or miss; some are just a parking lot, too. KOA is convenient and consistent but expensive. We use them when they’re the closest campground to someplace we want to be visiting (just got out of three days at KOA near my sister in law) but yeah if you like boondocking then KOA will not be a fun destination for you.

Good luck, have fun, don’t cheap out on the hose you use for dumping your black tank.

It died many deaths. But the decision to IPO was the start of this enshitified slide.

also harder to accuse them of using AI as well, since we know reddit loves all the AI on it , so they can train thier llms(googles and openai) and to prevent people from reporting propaganda accounts too often.

fuck u/spez

Old Reddit Redirect is one of the essential addons I install on a fresh Firefox.

Double tap the thing you want to read and it’s usually big enough to manage.

How is the moderation landscape any different on Lemmy vs Reddit? Aren't Reddit moderators all unpaid too?

I haven’t encountered this. Which topics?

It's hard to make a new account and not get flagged instantly.

You have to change ip address. Email, even the device you use

I can't be bothered anymore so now I just don't use reddit

Not only does the app look terrible, it's able to collect much more juicy data from you.

RIF then Apollo, though Apollo really set the standard.

holy fuck, RIF was epic. RIP RIF.

I'm in the same boat. I've had more productive conversations/debates with people on here in 6 months than 12 years on reddit.

One thing I like about Lemmy is I'm less prone to doom scrolling. I just make a few comments a day and monitor the results. Their server limitations serve as an incentive to make a less addictive product.

same here, but there is a way to login, you just cant use the same IP/device, or browsers. more sophisticated ones you can run dozens of accounts on the same device(but this is more complicated. reddit is so oppressive it sniffs out alternatives ways to evade its filters.(this more for the spammers who drop thier OF ads/or driving people to thier own sites)

Unfortunately or fortunately perhaps, I am banned from reddit. The reason was for reporting too many posts. Mods never cared about any of the rule breakers. They claimed I was trying to break the site by reporting posts too much. So I got banned without warning. Oh well.

oooih~!

This is quite nice ^.^ thank you!!

I mean, there's a reason people say to never buy Apple products.

i had this perfect on chrome til one day it just went to desktop styling and now i gotta zoom in on every comment

You don't have to host an instance of the Stealth server in order to use the Stealth client. It is awesome that you have that option if you want/need to, but the flagship public instance works just fine: stealth.cosmosapps.org

That was my go-to back when I used Reddit, and stopped when the API restriction was announced. As this is not just a read-only client, how does this get around the API restriction? Are users required to take steps to create a developer API key or whatever?

That's what I used right before I left

Yep

There simply isn't anywhere here for me to post the content that I create

niche communities on reddit are not on lemmy thats only thing.

I've seen this popup on the mobile website with Firefox a few times, enabling a user agent switcher extention and setting my user agent to be that of a desktop operating system makes the popup go away.

Why are you trying to contribute to Reddit by posting / voting?

To fight disinformation as much as I can. I see it, I downvote it. I see something patently false, I correct it if I'm educated enough on the subject.

I get upvotes, which means people see an agree. Maybe some of them are people who are seeing the info for the first time and I'm helping guide their views in the right direction.

I'm contributing less and less though. I mostly use Reddit for news that doesn't get posted here. Or to read top comments that outline what the news really means and provide deeper context. Because Reddit has more users than Lemmy, you see more of those informative comments. Hopefully Lemmy truly replaces it someday, but we're not all the way there yet. I'm definitely seeing more Lemmy activity than when I joined 1.5 years ago though.

All I can do is outline what I do every day. This same process used to work to create a profile that wasn't banned until I inevitably said some questionable stuff, typically to dipshit Trump supporters. So sometimes these accounts would last months. I think they've made some changes to tighten their grip on new accounts recently cuz I'm getting regularly shadowbanned after somewhere between 24-48 hours. Not temp or perma banned. Shadowbanned. Which you'll know when you try to post and it says "you're doing that too much, try again later", or by going to the 3rd party Reddit Shadowban Tester site, or by just going to the Reddit appeal page and if you can submit an appeal, you've been banned or shadowbanned.

1. I use Brave browser for Reddit. I know a lot of Lemmy users have problems with it. I don't care. I only use it in Incognito/Private mode.

2. I go into Brave browser settings and clear all data. All cookies. All of it. Reset it to factory default.

3. I open Brave back up and open a private window. I create a new throwaway email account on Outlook.

4. Go to Reddit. Create a new account. I make sure to create a username instead of using one of the auto-generated ones. I avoid words like platform, site, Reddit. I think they might have a method for looking for shit talking names like "Reddit_Sucks" or "This_Platform_Is_Trash". I use a different password every time in case they have a method for banning accounts with passwords that have been used before. That would be dumb though cuz with that many users I'm sure a lot of accounts have the same or very similar passwords.

That's it. I just spend like 3 minutes creating a new account every morning. I comment and get interaction throughout the day. Then the next day, or following day at latest, I discover I'm shadowbanned and start the process over again. I wouldn't bother doing this if I wasn't stuck at work. If I was anywhere else I'd find something better to do with my time than circumvent a trash platform.

I used to use a browser script to automatically re-add all my subs to a new Reddit account, but I had to set the script to only add one every 5 seconds, because if you did less it would detect you were adding too many subs too quickly and assume you're a bot and ban the account. But now, with whatever new methods they're using to shadowban me every day or two, I just gave up on the subs. Too much effort for a day or two. My subs were the only thing that really kept me caring about Reddit. So if they manage to restrict things even further and it gets harder for me to interact on the platform, I think I'll be ready to finally just give it up. Reddit isn't dying anytime soon, but it's definitely on a downward trajectory. It'll go the way of the dinosaur eventually.

Edit: Yeah, there are subs that don't let you contribute if your account is too new, but they're kind of few and far between. Doesn't really affect me that much.

I’m sure they are already running lurker instances with custom code for this very purpose.

Thankfully ublock works just fine in Firefox for android and its derivatives. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't use the mobile web either without it, and then my phone would exist only to mfa things at work.

if you backpsace to many time the reddit on a browsers lags a lot and starts to slow down the pages.

It could be however also that they don't do it to EU users. Who knows.

Could you fill me in on those decisions you mentioned from Startpage? I've been trusting it for a while now but don't really keep up with a whole lot of things.