Honest question: why push people to use the app specifically? What is the advantage to reddit if everyone just magically dropped the browser and switched to the app?
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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They've been doing this on Android for years already. I used sync. If I googled something and clicked on reddit, it would initially open in browser, then I'd get a pop up saying I needed to open the official app to continue reading on mobile.
This happened to me for years
This is a new low, even in light of everything they've done recently
For anyone wondering, you can still use it on mobile by changing the address to old.reddit.com in your mobile browser. So its still accessible on all mobile devices, just not on www.reddit.com.
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Reddit can truly get fucked. Can't wait to delete all my Reddit accounts on July 1st. I'm holding out 1/100000th hope that they will come to their senses on June 30th.
Reddit has done a great job un-aliving itself.
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If Reddit wants to kill itself, who am I to change its mind? (I already tried and they didn't accept my feedback because the form was rigged against being completed)
I have a feeling its too big to die to be honest
"Die" as in shut down, no, but "die" as in no longer being worth visiting, likely.
Virtually all of reddit's content is produced by a very small fraction of the userbase.
I suspect there's a fairly large overlap between people who are fed up with reddit's bullshit, and people who actually post and create content, not just scroll.
Reddit is cutting off that content supply to get more of the scrollers.
MySpace isn't dead yet!
It's going from bad to worse on a daily basis.
good thing I have a plan to block reddit :-)
Of course they do, in absence of the 3rd party apps that is how I would still be able to browse without ads on my phone. (If I didn‘t already switch fully to kbin and Lemmy)
I also expect one of these annoying "Disable your adblocker" pop ups for Desktop users.
I deleted my app a few days ago and now I exclusively use reddit for r/Godot because sadly there just isn't an established community for godot elsewhere.
R/godot is also one of my missing communities en Lemmy.
I hope that, with time, we can move people over here.
I assume as Reddit becomes more and more hostile and Lemmy more and more mature things will be easier.
That is not a good reason to keep using reddit. A boycott is a boycott. If a community that you want is not available outside of reddit, why not start it here?
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