I'm not gonna lie, watching reddit burn down is kinda exciting, I will miss reddit, but its time to leave for greener pastures
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I'm saving my popcorn for when they take over all the shutdown subs and kick out all their mods.
Yeah, I read this insane "well, Reddit admins will just reopen all the closed subs and things will just keep going like before." And I just can't stop thinking about what a shit show some of those big (and all ready quite toxic) will become. You can't just swap out a group of people to moderate million+ subreddits. It's all just toxic, racist memes all the way from now on.
And tons of nice niche subs will also go down in flames. Kinda sad, tbh.
It's like watching people drill holes in a sinking boat to let the water out.
Hear me out... What if /u/spez is trying to burn it down and fuck the IPO
They are not trying to burn it down. They don't care about those who leave. Reddit wants to be the new TikTok and those who leave over stuff like this are only getting in the way.
How could Reddit ever be a new tiktok???
Steve Huffman is trying to stir up all the shit and get fired with a golden parachute, then the remaining team can blame it on him and reverse almost nothing.
They sure are racing to the bottom as quick as they can huh?
This is just the natural consequence of IPO's and generally what happens when greed replaces stewardship and community. Profit-seeking was always at odds with user-driven content, it was managable up untill big stupid money managed by disinterested parties got involved, and now we're just in the late stages of Enshitification.
In web site management, experiments deployed to a fraction of users are a great thing for testing new features, or for comparing different UI approaches. They let you find out things like "users use the help button more often if it's next to the search box instead of at the top right" or "people click on ads more if they have a cute pink background".
Literally turning off the service for a fraction of users is, um, not the sort of experiment worth performing. You already know what happens when you have an outage, because you've had outages before. The only difference is that by doing it deliberately, you show that it's not the tech that's unreliable; it's the people running it.
They’re trying to see if they can force people onto the app.
Spoiler: They couldn't. No one running the mobile browser on purpose is gonna use their app.
This can't be real... what the hell are they thinking?
capitalism
Not to defend reddit or anything, but the linked post and comment are 1 month old.
If anything, that makes it more obvious the mobile browser block is related to the API shutdown. Two sides of taking back all the mobile users into their own client.
Old reddit no longer works unless you're logged in.
Stop spreading lies, Reddit is already doing a lot of bullshit you don’t have to make stuff up to make them look bad.
It's not lies, that's certainly been the case for me. If I visit old reddit, I get a broken page. If I log in and then visit old reddit, it works.
Maybe they're doing a google and rolling out the change gradually across different regions.
Reddit experimenting with blocking user comments and posts. Trials ad-only service.
Lol, they are experimenting on their users, and doing so in the bad way.
Just like Dr. Mengele!
"These eyes are brown...I would prefer them to be blue!" -spez
I don't think they ever confirmed it, but I'm pretty sure for a while they were experimenting with blocking people who used VPNs too. There was about two weeks where reddit just didn't work on my laptop and I couldn't figure out why, until I saw a thread where other people were discussing it and someone said try it without the VPN. Sure enough, that did it. Then after a couple of weeks it went back to normal again.
The banning VPN stuff is awful :(
Weird. But blocking people from using VPNs may be a genuine attempt at fighting spam. However if they do it in secret, then it's questionable.
They can spam more efficiently via API calls vs using their web browser/app.
If they somehow manage to block universal access to the vast knowledge reddit has accumulated over the years, especially for technical stuff, it will be a tragedy. I have learned so much on that website...
With behaviour like this, they deserve to burn down. Incredible timing to do this as well.
All the more reason to rebuild the useful communities on a different platform.
This is true. Leave the corporate to themselves and preserve the community.
can't they just change the mobile browser experience in the way that the shareholders want? i don't understand forcing people into the app
App can mine more data which is the real product.
The way reddit is behaving, if they think anyone is going to let their dirty lil mining app on their device, they're drunk.
Well, if they don't want me to use their platform, I guess I won't. No need to boycott if I can't use it in the first place
Haha wow. What an effective way to describe it.
You accidentally shared the save link, not the actual archive link. https://web.archive.org/web/20230612055520/https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/jim40zg/
Geez... I am curious over how many will enjoy their app. I never did lol
Yo guys get your popcorn
Mobile platforms need an effective way to block data hoovers. There is a reason everything is an app now and that is that mobile platforms aren't safe.
I have been wondering why there isn't a kind of proxy sandwich filter app (a privacy wrapper) that can intercept and respond to certain functions or IP's with a generic or random response if it fails without it. Like a sandboxed ublock and fingerprint randomizer and DNS filter with a proxy on both ends so it can't touch your stuff unless you want it to.
Newpipe does similar to this in a way. They scrape YouTube and only give you what you want, nothing else.