Reddit

This is why the weekend DDoS attacks and frontpage vandalism don't really concern me. With spez and Musk burning their services to the ground, we're (along with other competitors, we're not the only one) going to get a steady influx pressure for the coming months or even years. Shutting us partly down for a few hours every weekend does nothing in the face of this much stronger phenomenon. Whoever is doing it is basically pissing into the wind.

If you install the duckduckgo browser and turn on app tracking protection, you'll see just how much data is harvested from mobile apps, which is genuinely scary.

This is why these sites are pushing the mobile app. It's much harder to prevent trackers through an app than it is through a web browser.

The enshittification proceeds apace. Fuck u/spez.

Someone should answer the phone because we all fucking called it.

What's next in the Reddit bingo?

The removal of old reddit?

Limiting the number of posts we can see per day as a normal user?

Buy upvotes?

The slippery slope logical fallacy doesn't count when there is actual factual evidence.

He's just trying to protect people from inappropriate content. We all know how harmful inappropriate content can be for children unless it's paired with targeted advertisements, which mitigate the danger.

No wonder King Steven was so incensed when the Landed Gentry cut off access to the site from commoners; it's a privilege he reserves as a Royal Prerogative....

I'm now only on lemmy and YouTube. Never got into tictok or Facebook, left and deleted reddit and Twitter. I'm in a happy place.

I called this happening right when Spez said he wanted to emulate elon. The other shoe has dropped

I assume eventually all subreddits will be locked to non registered users on mobile…and PC

Remember, corporations are never your friend. I remember when redditors thought spez was "one of them".

Enshittification continues…

They're doing great work on their destroy any positive community sentiment Speedrun, it's been shocking decision after terrible change

Let's dump Reddit for ever for good.

all to sell some ads

Looks like more efforts to sanitize the place in prep for an ipo.

The execs are almost certainly ready to cash out and retire from that annoying gig 🤣

But just wait until a wallst level CEO gets hold of the reigns.

Having tried /r/politics, /r/eve, and /r/valheim, I was going to point out how I didn't get the screen you got. However, /r/nyt gets this message. As an aside, /r/politics, /r/eve, and /r/valheim are verified while /r/nyt is not is interesting to me. Upon further testing, /r/nytimes works. Seeing how /r/nyt has 411 subscribers, while /r/nytimes has 8,431 subscribers, I think smaller, less well known subreddits will run into issues while larger subreddits or subreddits that are more well known will have no accessibility issues.

It's also interesting that this block doesn't exist if you navigate to old.reddit.com/r/nyt instead of just reddit.com/r/nyt. You think they would have just repurposed the page that asked if you if you were over 18 before going to a nsfw subreddit for this task, but old.reddit.com seems completely overlooked as of now.

old.reddit.com on the Firefox Android app looks bad, but I wonder if someone could make an extension to automatically redirect users to old.reddit.com when navigating to reddit.com, as well as an extension that changes the layout of the page to something more mobile friendly, similar to RES but for your phone's browser. That might make reddit usable on mobile without the official app until old.reddit.com goes away or they try to implement some sort of user agent string check.

I wish there was a way to accelerate widespread adoption of Lemmy.

Reddit has been awesome, but the community deserves a decentralized platform free from bullshit like this.

Anyone noticed how Lemmy links are blocked and shadowbanned in Reddit?

Another reason for get out of Reddit

Reddit desindexed by Google in 3....2....1....

This is gonna work SO WELL, as per Twitter teachings

Really trying to force people to install and browse with the app. I'll never do it.

Never installed the Facebook app either. Just too much data harvesting, too invasive.

Deleted Facebook, deleted reddit, deleted Twitter. Never looked back.

For now old.reddit still works.

My operating assumption here is that Reddit can collect more data to sell if people are logged in and use their app.

Does not matter if you destroy 75% of the usefulness of the system if the remaining 25% can be more effectively monetized.

Yeah this move has killed all interaction with Reddit for me. I only open a reddit page now if it's in my google results for something I'm searching, but the last few times I've hit this message. There's thousands of subs that are never going to get reviewed because they're small and I'm sure at the absolute end of their queue.

Old.reddit is next, the new Reddit design is shit on purpose to make you use their app.

reddit and twitter are literally competing to see who can destroy their platform first and unfortunately they're both winning

The second Digg 4.0 speedrun any%

It's interesting because they justify it by saying it's for compliance (eg, because logged out users haven't answered affirmatively that they're over 18). Gives them cover when we all know the real reason they're locking it down