When I can no longer use Boost to access reddit, I’m totally done with it (which I expect is pretty soon)
Garbage takes itself out, lol.
They never learn.
learn what? they’re more successful than they’ve ever been. Their profit is up, their users are up. What exactly do they need to learn? Yes, you and I and most people reading this comment are pissed off at them and left their platform. But 99% of people didn’t bother. This will annoy people but ultimately it won’t drive users away in any substantial numbers. They do it because they know they can and most people will do what they’re told and get the app instead. You say that as if you expect them to be shooting themselves in the foot, but people being annoyed at them does not reduce their profitability.
The average moron decides the rest of our fate. The average moron decided to sell our privacy wholesale and ask for seconds . Let’s face it, intelligent people are just on the moron boat ride, and there is nothing we can do about it.
How many are bots?
Its like facebook. Engagement is up, audience is increased, but, its likely by a small number of people. I started noticing that in the Aussie subs, that every week, near the weekend (right before night), there were obvious lobbyist posts, which suddenly shot up (stuff like pro guns, pro- one nation etc). At this point, our local racism party was clearly doing heavy lobbying on the platform (despite losing 30 years of elections, based on reddit, you’d think they were #1).
Like facebook, a lot of people are switching off now, and trying to find alternatives.
Moderation has also gotten really bad recently. I had an account for 14+ years, never got banned. Made a new account, and within a few months, I got a temp ban for apparently being racist (despite the fact, I spent a lot of time arguing AGAINST racism).
On facebook in fact, on the heatpump posts, I actually noticed 1 or 2 names pop up on almost all the adverts saying they were an engineer, and that heatpumps don’t work, etc (with bad info). Reddit allows infinite accounts, and no doubt, it is not much better there
They are failing and they know it. You talk about money, but the rest of us talk about legacy and longevity. Reddit is dying.
Of course it’s different now. that’s why you and I left. but dying? dying means failing, and objectively they’re doing better than ever. I hate that they’ve cashed in their goodwill/“legacy” and enshittified, but I can’t argue that they haven’t been successful in doing so. I seriously doubt they care about legacy when the line is going up.
Objectively their business is doing well. Their social network is clearly dropping off like most others. Real people are posting much less across the board, Reddit is turning into a passive AI fueled entertainment platform.
Their app performs worse than running their website on Firefox. That’s a technical feat of its own.
Are there still people on Reddit?,
Yeah cause network effect
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.
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
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.
Welcome, brother!
Same here. They don’t want users. They just want bots.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Are you from a sanctioned country by any chance?
No, i’m from Sweden.
the humble “request desktop site” button
I’m using this to suggest that Lemmy is better. Sneaky but fun.
My default use of mobile browsers
Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to Lemmy Instead
I’ve corrected the headline for you. Thank me later, alligator.
Thats why I’m back here 🐱
Welcome home 😌
Good idea, Reddit.
opens redreader
How does that work? I thought Reddit effectively banned third-party apps by forcing API usage fees?
Either way, I wouldn’t browse Reddit now even if they reneged on the API scandal. Bridge has been burned, and the political landscape there seems horrid nowadays.
I read somewhere (who knows where) Red Reader focuses on visual impaired accessibility features so Reddit Corp waives the api fees. I assume it’s cheaper for them than developing accessibility features into the official app.
Maybe like Boost for Reddit - it can be patched with Revanced and you can still use it
old.reddit.comis unaffectedThe few times I click a link to a Reddit post I immediately change www to old. That new monstrosity is unusable.
For more general usage, you can try Redirector.
You just add a rule like
Redirect: https://www.reddit.com/*
To: https://old.reddit.com/$1It allows to redirect to alternative frontends, and redirect other webs like YouTube too :)
They’re still doing it? When I accidentally click a reddit link I don’t get the paywall anymore.
Or maybe they saw that it was a 100% bounce rate from me and then reverted the behavior (like a cookie with a counter, after 20 bounces don’t show the paywall anymore?)
Read-only and not as polished as some of the older commercial versions, but https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.cosmos.unreddit/ also works. They have different access methods like web scraping. Works well enough for lurking when Reddit isn’t blocking my VPN, which they seem to block/unblock at random.
Really nice design in that app. Looks very polished actually. 💎
Perfect, I might even set my UA for reddit to mobile then, I need an “excuse” to keep on using it less. I still browse it without an account but I should lose the habit.
This was happening to me but then stopped and I’m not sure why.
I already deleted Reddit from my bookmarks and started adding -reddit.com into my Google searches. If there was an easy way to default -reddit.com into every search then I would do it.
Better use the actual
-site:domainfunction to filter out by domain directly. You can in example search everything about Reddit, without results from Reddit itself:reddit -site:reddit.com -site:redditinc.com -site:reddithelp.comCreate a custom search provider. Search URL should be like:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%25s+-ai+-redditYou can just keep stringing the additional terms that you want excluded. I’m sure there’s some limit but you probably won’t hit it
Edit: apparently either lemmy or boost doesn’t like percent signs. Or URL encoding for that matter. The first part should be (percent character)s, and the plus signs should be (percent character)20. Though the + will probably work as-is depending on how your browser does things
I don’t know of a way with Google, but with Kagi, I can block, penalize, or promote domains from my search results.
