The interesting thing is that it does not look like a permanent/always thing. A couple of days I also got these Pop-Ups (which you can circumvent by using "Desktop-Mode" in your mobile Browser) but I do not get them anymore. Is some kind of A/B testing ongoing or did they remove the changes?
Technology
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
It's just websites. I'm not downloading your shitty app to look at your website. That's what a browser is for.
I just got banned for saying that I look forward to watching leopards eat James Comey's face. They took it as a literal call for violence. The only thing that doesn't make it perfect is that it wasn't on r/leopardsatemyface.
I would say reddit has fully gone to shit, but somehow I think it still has a ways lower to sink.
If you paste this into your my filters tab on Ublock Origin, it'll block the element blocking you from the page, but yes that's why I made a Lemmy account, because fuck reddit.
reddit.com#?##app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-seo:remove() reddit.com#%#//scriptlet('prevent-addEventListener', 'touchmove', 'preventDefault') reddit.com#%#//scriptlet('remove-class', 'rpl-scroll-lock|scroll-is-blocked', 'html, body', 'asap stay') reddit.com#$#html, body, shreddit-app { overflow-y: scroll !important; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch !important; touch-action: pan-y !important; overscroll-behavior: auto !important; }
It will well and truly be dead and gone once old.reddit.com stops working. It remains the one good way to view the site, regardless of device.
My theory is that they realize that a significant number of power users on the site are still using old.reddit.com, so they are keeping it going because getting rid of it would turn the website into a ghost town. They will continue to push their app and new website because they can push more advertising through it to the people that are just there to consume.
You think there are still redditors around?
I think it's just troll farms and bots. Every once in a while someone stumbles into the site and says something. THEN there is a whirlwind of answers/speculations/theories/lies.
A.I is running the show. If I use a certain word or phrase I get filtered. If I say the exact same thing without those "catch phrases" then I see a few votes.
I treat the site as a test site for trying language that gets PAST the trolls.
Reddit really sucks. Once you get one temporary ban, the automated system really fucks you at any point in the future.
Good.
The more of this they do, the more people move to federated sites.
Any websight pushing stuff like this I refuse to use. I use a degoogled phone so many apps don't work and I use the web browser.
I will not install their app. Period.
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.
Fuck Reddit, fuck spez, fuck all the mods on that site. Nuke it from orbit
lemmy is way better than reddit
It's way worse for hobbies that aren't Linux and normie-interest things like sports. Even things like Magic: the Gathering or the NFL or gardening have almost no traffic here.
yeah there are still some communities on Lemmy that couldn't migrate from Reddit, and it sucks to have to return to Reddit to participate with them
Garbage takes itself out, lol.
This was the push I needed to delete my reddit account and I did it yesterday
This is what finally did it? I stopped mine when they killed anything but their shitty app, but also when it became clear just how "freedom of speech" they weren't.
So did most of us. No reason to be hostile to someone who took more time but still committed. The day they monetized the API was the 3rd best day. Today is the 4th best day.
Maybe its too on the nose to say so on Lemmy, but fuck Reddit right in the earhole. Their pearl-clutching, risk-averse, pro-corporate moderation-bot and tattle-tale system was the last straw.
"These users are already familiar with Reddit and we've seen that the experience is much better for them in the app. The app offers a more personalized experience and users can more easily find communities that match their interests."
Lmao. The personalization is exactly what I don't want, so fuck off. Also, it's pretty easy to circumvent. I'm sure there's multiple ways, but I just go to old reddit.
If only Lemmit accepted new subreddits, this would have been a no-issue…
I’ll miss some subreddits 🤷♂️
There's other instances, and you can interact with subs on other instances just fine. That's the whole point of activitypub. So if you really miss those subs, maybe see if they're available on other instances?
Reddit is a shit hole.
It's crap like this that's the reason why I started looking for alternatives like Lemmy. Reddit is getting a little too big for their britches.
Their app performs worse than running their website on Firefox. That's a technical feat of its own.
Their app being so bad is the only reason third party apps were even a thing. The official reddit was just unusable on mobile.
It is the only social media that had a significant user base using third party apps.
The same is true for the search. You had to use their party (google) search engines to search for something on reddit.
Not even the desktop website is good. I don't even remember the name of the extension, but that one extension that every power user had brought many simple features that reddit didn't add after years of existing.
Their multiple redesigns were universally hated. The reason they haven't shut down old reddit is because a non-insignificant amount of traffic uses that frontend, even though it is 2-3 redesigns old.
Basically anything that reddit did was shit. It only was popular because the core features worked and were free with very little ads. And it had a massive (and active) user base that posted content, so basically every google search contained a reddit link with a decent answer.