Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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• BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The enshitification continues.

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  • Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We need to stop using Reddit, WhatsApp, and YouTube… but we can’t.

    That’s the real problem. These platforms stopped being “apps” a long time ago. They’re infrastructure now. Reddit is search results, tech support, product reviews, niche communities. WhatsApp is family, work, school, doctors, landlords. YouTube is tutorials, education, news clips, repairs, entertainment, background noise.

    You can quit a bad product. You can’t easily quit a social standard.

    And that’s exactly why they get away with so much. The cost of leaving isn’t just losing features; it’s losing access to people, knowledge, and convenience. Alternatives exist, but the network effect keeps dragging everyone back.

    So yeah, we should stop using them. But realistically, the better first step is reducing dependence: use RSS, forums, Signal, PeerTube/Invidious, proper documentation, personal websites, mailing lists, and local backups wherever possible.

    Not because purity is achievable, but because total dependence is dangerous.

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Stopped using reddit years ago.

      Never once used WhatsApp, and refuse to.

      Same with a bunch of other social media sites.

      YouTube - only use it to download high quality Vida using other tools, like Grayjay, Newpipe, and YT-DL.

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    • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Whatsapp is just a messaging service? That can be easily replaced by phones in-built messaging service or am i missing something?

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    • doleo@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your post hits the nail on the head too well to be left unnoticed, here. My goodness, this is a message that needs repeating.

      Isn’t it striking how today’s essential infasctructure is owned by private equity, and always run for profit. Everything we depend on is a paid service.

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    • zonklezoop@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Agree. Sometimes I click on Reddit threads in my search results. I’ve had to use WhatsApp recently to stay in touch with my dad. I keep Meta accounts so that I can (very rarely) keep up with family.

      None of them are things I use daily or post to (other than WhatsApp convo). The accounts have been pretty well dead for at least the last 3 years.

      I host my own services, including a Mastodon instance. I talk up fediverse alternatives and FOSS apps…but I can’t even get my mom to understand that she doesn’t need to bring an SD card to Walmart to get photos. I’m certainly not going to push her to Signal or Matrix just to talk to me.

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    • Phantaloons@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We need to stop using Reddit, WhatsApp, and YouTube… but we can’t.

      What’s this we shit?

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• Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hopefully more people will come here now

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Doubt - we aren’t particularly welcoming, especially to the likes of USA centrists, which is the majority population on Reddit.

    Though some instances choose to at least curb the problem slightly, by e.g. defederating hexbear.

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    • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I doubt the centrists have a problem with Reddit

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    • golden@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Won’t someone think of the poor centrists!

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  • Marasenna@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The last thing we need is more shitlibs from Reddit.

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• TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i used to wonder why ppl still choose reddit after everything spez has done. but if recently learning about Pol Pot has taught me anything, it’s that demographs of people will sign up for their own stupidity no matter how obvious the grimness of their alterable reality is.

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• belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “You WILL look at our ads and you WILL give us more data”

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