Social network Reddit recently began blocking mobile visitors to its website while pushing them to download the official Reddit app, and it's fair to say that the move is not going down well with users. If you visit reddit.com on your iPhone today, you may see a new popup that can't be dismissed, asking you to "get the app to keep using Reddit".
    • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      Not just of reddit but also for some reason Google (at least for me) often recommends <search term> reddit and ranks reddit posts quite highly, so this enshitifies google too.

      Google’s demise due to socialmedia walled gardens was kind of understandable, but their decision to lean into Reddit and make themselves extra vulnerable to the whims of a corporation they don’t own, is entirely in them.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        i think you have reddit and googles position reversed, reddit is pretty much dependant on google almost entirely, they put thier search bar on the top, allows reddit to use its v3 captch3 to catch “bots/ban” , and then thier sudden appearance of using AI to moderate the site.

        • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          When I search for something I often get suggestions for “search term” reddit.

          Google have chosen to send people to reddit If reddit make those results unusable that a big fuck up.

      • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        I’m pretty of the other 25% who came here because we got banned for saying something that offended someone’s feefees. I honestly couldn’t be happier.

  • Arrandee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    4 months ago

    Maybe its too on the nose to say so on Lemmy, but fuck Reddit right in the earhole. Their pearl-clutching, risk-averse, pro-corporate moderation-bot and tattle-tale system was the last straw.

  • searabbit@piefed.socialEnglish
    55·
    4 months ago

    “These users are already familiar with Reddit and we’ve seen that the experience is much better for them in the app. The app offers a more personalized experience and users can more easily find communities that match their interests.”

    Lmao. The personalization is exactly what I don’t want, so fuck off. Also, it’s pretty easy to circumvent. I’m sure there’s multiple ways, but I just go to old reddit.

    • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      4 months ago

      They’ll kill old Reddit eventually

      And then the site will effectively die

      I wouldn’t mind if they did it soon tbf. That way I would find other ways to pass the time at work

    • Syrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Oh I love personalization. When I am the one doing it and not an algorithm doing what it “thinks” is better for me.

  • diplomatic_immunity@lemmy.zipEnglish
    37·
    4 months ago

    I hate reddit. They blocked all of my accounts for no reason. And they’re so vague explaining why, and when I tried to appeal, the whole site crashed. Literally joined Lemmy yesterday.

    • borQue@lemmy.zipEnglish
      13·
      4 months ago

      Welcome. Yeah Reddit is an evil forum. Blocked me too when I was doing an ANTI racist statement. Apparently the moderhater thought I was racist, block for life, appeal never helped. I think they cannot read properly.

      • dltk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 months ago

        16 year old reddit account. I got a 3 day suspension for “harassment” for telling the mods of a joe rogan sub that their sub is full of “losers”. I was completely censoring myself by being so soft in my critique. Evidently right wing snowflakes are big fans of cancel culture. Deleted the app & here I am!

        • brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          4 months ago

          Guess we are all here. I also had a 10+ year account and the last few months started getting bans for relatively tame views, most of them taken out of context and then I finally got perma banned.

          Scrubbed and deleted all my comments with a Firefox extension and deleted my account. If many of us very active users do this, I believe it can make a dent in their content.

          • dltk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            I need to learn more about what’s OK on federated platforms like lemmy, but Im interested in creating a mirror bot that clones all the posts on Reddit. Just a one-way mirror to help boost content depth. Maybe it would be best to create a dedicated lemmy server for that purpose.

      • mimavox@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I got permabanned for threatening violence bc I wished a missile strike on Putin. As if I was planning to do that.

      • diplomatic_immunity@lemmy.zipEnglish
        31·
        4 months ago

        Thank you! That’s crazy man. Man i hate it so much, you can get banned for literally anything, with no solid reason and explanation. It really is evil. Built a niche news subreddit from the ground up and it was doing good, with about 100 members in 2-3 months. Lost it. I was moderating another bigger subreddit aswell, made it grow and better, all for nothing.

        • borQue@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          That’s very sad to hear. Good thing you can ventilate it here. Maybe one day there will be enough angry ex users and they’ll remove all bans.

    • Abyssian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      4 months ago

      I used Reddit since near it’s start, never banned until recently. Apparently saying that public officials who betray their country and the will of the people should be burned at the stake is me making threats. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      Lol I quit reddit a couple of years ago when they did the API thing. Recently went on there cos I was googling some game stuff that led me there - and I found that the account that was logged in had been banned. I hadn’t commented or voted out even really been there for 2 years and somewhere in that time I earned a ban, somehow. Gotta laugh.

    • treesartlife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      I used reddit for about 4 years. I couldn’t stand it anymore, the bots, the bans for no proper reason. A lot of people recommended Lemmy, but I was reluctant to start using it at first. Glad I finally made it here

      • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Glad to have you. Honestly, I think the smaller community makes it better. Even if there is no unending firehose of memes and shitposts here. You can run out.

    • 0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      But will there be enough to counterract the people who just use the app? That’s the real question. No one doubts a move like this increases fediverse people. So did the API scurfuffle, yet people still regularly complain about the fediverse being unpopulated.

      I’ve been on fedi since 2015—over a decade. I know it’s gotten bigger. Yet, every year, for 10 years straight, are people who complain about how small the userbase is. I don’t see this at all changing that.

  • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
    29·
    4 months ago

    Next, they will stop allowing to register with random email without confirmation

    Edit: jut found out they already did it lol. Then next step will be to require phone number for all new accounts

  • suburbanl3g3nd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    4 months ago

    If you’re on Firefox, download a user agent plug in and change your your browser to say it’s a tablet or windows pc. Problem solved. I already do this when their page locking pop-up started bothering me lol