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I'm pulling these numbers out of a hat, but I would wager users with rooted Android devices are below 1% of the mobile user base, and probably below 0.1% of the total user base including desktop.
On Android, it used to be the case that many ad blocking apps were just Proxy services.
I've been a fan of Reddit for a very long time (as the amount of data science work I've done with their data can attest to), but lately it seems like the incentives between Reddit as a business and Reddit as a community leader are not aligned, and that is a problem. The increasing amount of dark patterns Reddit has been employing lately is concerning. (recent example: Reddit now gates content in mobile Safari to push…
Their current CEO seems to be a bad actor. Despite people reporting shills or Russian trollbots, the admins basically don't do anything in the name of "free speech" but to me, propaganda and counter-intelligence ops shouldn't really qualify... I wish they'd just clean up all the racist and weirdo (incel) subreddits and focus on nurturing the interesting communities (ebikes, woodworking, vinyl, guitarpedals). There's…
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The worst dark patten in my view is 1) growing an online community around a set of values 2) growing so big you eclipse all competitors 3) suddenly changing your values to appeal to advertisers. Reddit is in good company here, notably with YouTube and Twitter.
I agree that this process sucks. Do you think it's possible to do 1 and 2 without 3? How could a business that remains focused on benefiting free users compete/profit?
Wikimedia comes to mind. They're by no means perfect, but they're the closest match I can think of.
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It is also still a haven for the far-left. Does that leave a bad taste in your mouth too?
Does advocating for single-payer healthcare, free community college, marriage equality, pro-choice, and higher tax rates for wealthy individuals constitute 'far left'? Serious question. I have in mind what I would think of as far left, but I don't see those folks are particularly well represented in the United States.
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The fact that Apollo exists and is popular (though, I personally don't think its controls are native enough) means that this isn't really true.
And Sync and AlienBlue if they're still around. It blows my mind that one dev is able to push out such a high quality product where the official app feels amateurish by comparison. It really highlights the difference between development that serves Reddit vs development that serves the user.
I've been a fan of Reddit for a very long time (as the amount of data science work I've done with their data can attest to), but lately it seems like the incentives between Reddit as a business and Reddit as a community leader are not aligned, and that is a problem. The increasing amount of dark patterns Reddit has been employing lately is concerning. (recent example: Reddit now gates content in mobile Safari to push…
The worst thing in promoting their app is that I would gladly use it if it was faster than a web site, but it loads so much slower that it's just a much worse experience. Google realized that load times are critical 20 years ago. Facebook realized it when Google was launching G+.
They seem to be forgetting it, lately.
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Unfortunately the way that comments are rendered depends on which view you use. There's probably a subset that works for both but many [new.]reddit.com users won't realize that their post doesn't render correctly for old.reddit.com. Given this design, I suppose one must suffer: [new.]reddit.com adoption or the experience for old.reddit.com.
Could you elaborate? I've managed to avoid the redesign completely, and I haven't noticed any comments that appear to be rendered incorrectly.
Admittedly it's a problem more common on the more technical subreddits.
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Voat is appalling and revels in its terribleness. There has to be something better to migrate to.
Reddit : Usenet :: Slack : IRC There will be other places for you to migrate to, as there have been for decades, if not an entire generation.