looks like old.reddit.com still works.
3 days tops before some reverse engineers the app and makes a proxy website. You won’t win this fight, spez. You will just lose in the most expensive way possible.
I just use desktop agent on my phone if there’s a good answer to something on reddit, but honestly it needs to die and we need to use fediverse more for discussions.
It works really well for me actually. Every time that mobile app begpost comes up it’s a great reminder that I shouldn’t even be looking at Reddit at all. Cut down my doomscrolling on my phone immediately.
I got permabanned this week for saying “Poor white people are being tricked into blaming black/brown/trans people for their problems instead of billionaires.”
Apparently it was promoting hate based speech and attacks.
Reddit was kinda neat 15 years ago, it’s a fucking cesspool now.
Reddit is not dying fast enough
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cant exactly be shocked by this, when the masses so willingly accept and adopt much more invasive, information harvesting and profitable apps instead of just using websites.
I read ghislaine maxwell is back as a moderator on world news … and why the hell isn’t america going after the youth obsessed model world full of predators? Hello its time for frickin regulations, oh wait america’s government is full of pedos they even made a pedo president twice
Im not sad I got banned now, its just not a cool place anymore! Here and Discuit fill the void
This wouldn’t bother me at all if reddit didn’t appear at the top of almost every damn question I Google nowadays. Why are you pushing reddit for answers if you won’t let me see them?
DuckDuckGo. AI only if you ask for it. Actual results. It’s like 2007 google
Whenever I’m not logged in I see their AI, it’s actually much more likely to be accurate than Gemini, probably because the results aren’t being filtered through an affiliate list to see if someone is paying to be featured.
Because they paid bank for a data deal with Reddit a little while back so they’re damn well gonna try to make that money back with your clicks.
Stop using google.
Reached for comment, the company instead offered a puzzling explanation: that the site-breaking popup is for users’ own good.
Fuck you reddit, fuck /u/spez!
Reminder that Steve Huffman is greedy little pig boy
Yeah. But let’s not just do this. It’s pointless cursing. Hit them where it hurts, spread word about lemmy, create posts on Lemmy. More content, more users on lemmy
I thought Reddit broke their mobile site a long time ago.
Users do anything but stop using reddit
Many of us here stopped a while back. For me, it was the API thing a couple of years ago. But it’s still useful to check reddit website for info - there’s just so many answers to so many questions on there. But fuck using their app.
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.
It took time to get to this point. The software had to mature and a lot of people wouldn’t stay around with so few choices of communities, but you can count on /u/spez to keep enshitifying Reddit, so Lemmy stays growing.
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.
Yeah I have looked at old a few times, reddit is shit but internet searches are often even shitter these days with so fucking many AI generated websites.
If I know a better source I will search for that. Started growing some of my own food recently so anything plant related I try and check RHS first.
The API thing was the final straw for me as well.
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👋 I stopped using reddit last week.
The way they are banning people for barely nothing, people will be stopping using it quickly
I used reddit for years. Made lots of comments, had original posts hit #1 many times. I was contributing to their site.
Then I said something bad about Musk and got banned. I think it was about Musk, they deleted a bunch of what I posted so I’m not entirely sure.
I still browse reddit from time to time. I use the old reddit site with adblock. Now I’m just a leech to them. I take but don’t contribute back.
I’m fine with that relationship.
Once again I am reminded of an old coworker. He’d talk a good game about caring about things, but when it came to the slightest inconvenience he’d dither and usually just do the basic thing. Still an avid reddit user, last I heard.
I stayed with them and bitched about them for quite some time. About the time they started cracking down on the API i went ahead and left because whatever inconvenience I was weathering would be 10x worse if I waited till the last minute to start over somewhere else.
there are too many hyper local subs on there to stop reading it entirely… I’d love to even get state level channels on lemmy, but there are only a few.
We need to stop letting these corpos steal all the local forums.
The last thing that should be left to a sucking void like Reddit is community things.
Yeah, there is one for my town and what I miss is that there were some really good local meteorologists in there. They’d call out storms or bad weather days before it came up on any weather feed and most of the time they were super accurate.
I kind of miss it, but after being banned for nonsense, I don’t think I can go back. It was fun while it lasted but everyone knew once they went public, it was going to change and it did.
Something else will replace it. Might be Lemmy, might be something else. I don’t really care of it’s a for-profit model, just don’t run it like assholes. There’s no reason it has to be so binary.
The only online local communities I am aware of for where I live are on facebook, so I just don’t get involved. Reddit does have a county wide one but that is pretty quiet. Oddly the city subs are more popular than the county one but I don’t live in either city. Might be because both have a fairly big uni.
