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Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by weinzierl »

sdwr wrote: post #51
alwayslikethis wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue is for every person like you and me, there are 10 or 100 others who put up with this crap, and reddit attracts people, centralizing communities, giving you little option for alternatives. It drains activities from forums, etc, toward itself as it is presented as a more convenient solution. I for one will try to undo my past contributions to accelerate its decline. The blackout is unlikely to work, but I hop…

I never wanted to use the reddit app. Must have caved and installed it one day. I use it now, and it doesnt feel different from the site. Say what you want about HN, but at least the contrarians bring out opposing views. The bigger reddit subs have a mob mentality that use to annoy me, and now scares me. People are itching for a chance to hate, and pile on from every angle. It's childish, naive, and most of all vindi…

Also bust because it doesn't feel differently for you doesn't mean it makes a difference for Reddit if you use it.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by ghusto »

FormerBandmate wrote: post #112
p-e-w wrote: post #82

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It's only absurd if you misunderstand the true intention. They didn't acquire Dubsmash to profit from its technology and users. They acquired Dubsmash to shut it down. Today's social media corporations are so fat with (venture) capital that they can, and do, spend that kind of money just to keep any potential competitors locked out. TikTok, the last social network that became truly big, was launched in 2016, seven ye…

Acquihires are definitely a thing but the way they talked about it at the time it was a major acquisition to diversify Reddit and pivot it to video. It even made the Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/reddit-snaps-up-dubsmash-to-exp... Dubsmash had a sizable userbase with almost no overlap with Reddit's and their conversion rate appears to be less than 0.01%

And the way a certain MassiveCorp talked about the acquisition of my previous workplace, lead less experienced employees to believe they were doing so in order to diversity their offerings in that area.

Guess how long we lasted before being "brought into the fold".

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by wg0 »

Every company will get this desperate at some point. Everyone has shareholders none is driven by any other mission statement but to maximize profits year over year.

Wondering what will happen when Google comes to that point. Or Microsoft.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by losteric »

bboygravity wrote: post #123
klabb3 wrote: post #109

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That only makes sense when there’s competition. Why maintain two apps when it’s cheaper to maintain one? Now, in this case it seems like an awful strategic choice, given what happened with TikTok. But I think the reason is nevertheless the same. Modern tech capitalism doesn’t want to compete in the “let the best product win”-space. It’s just not enough money and making stuff is hit or miss. They want to own access an…

That's not (modern) capitalism. That's simply -not- capitalism.

Are you saying that rent seeking and anti-competitiveness are "not capitalist"? How do you figure?

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by drukenemo »

1270018080 wrote: post #117
hapticmonkey wrote: post #96

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There's a free safari extension for iOS that blocks the "use our app" popup on reddit mobile site. It's sad that such a thing even needs to exist.

What is it called?

Stop the madness is the one I use.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by chaostheory »

donny2018 wrote: post #76
FormerBandmate wrote: post #36

They are desperately trying to be TikTok. It will not work and has no chance of working. Look at their hilariously terrible acquisition of Dubsmash for $50 million (they converted it to a subreddit with 1.5k subscribers when they had 200 million users at their peak and touted having 25% of black teens in their acquisition press release. Every post is people saying the Reddit app sucks and asking where Dubsmash went)

This is Silicon Valley (the show) level comical.

They ended that way too early. There is so much good content to write about now. I know it’s hard to transition, but do you really need (near) the full cast still?

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by mynameisvlad »

shmatt wrote: post #56
_zzaw wrote: post #3

There is only one appropriate, effective response to disrespect, and that is to not reward the offending party. I made it a matter of principle to not use the Reddit app. Even if they removed all ads and made it an acceptable user experience, I'll never use the app as long as they are harassing me about it. It's simple. Don't reward bad behavior. Sometimes, denying obnoxious people something they want means denying y…

I find it funny people have been going on this anti Reddit turning profit crusade, but ignore the fact Reddit is pretty similar to Facebook groups, just has much better ui and indexability And everyone I know in real life who uses Reddit on a daily basis is also in at least 2-3 FB groups. Be it a local mom/dad group, Costco group, the car they own, or something more niche They’re not big Zuckerberg fans but they’re m…

Just because every single comment complaining (rightly) about Reddit’s current behavior does not include a comparison to Facebook does not mean it’s ignored.

People can dislike two things at once, and it doesn’t need to necessarily be said. Three, even, if they’re feeling frisky.

Unless there’s a post specifically about Reddit and Facebook, then you shouldn’t expect people to even bring up Facebook. It’s at best barely relevant.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by matkoniecz »

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #74
_zzaw wrote: post #16

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I think you're right, partly. But I also think that a lot of the people who put up with it are the passive ones who don't really contribute much to communities anyway; they're just there. The people who do the real contributing—posting, modding, defining the culture and building the communities that Reddit benefits from—are, as far as I can tell, more likely to get a lot angrier about abusive corporate nonsense, simp…

> The people who do the real contributing—posting, modding, defining the culture and building the communities that Reddit benefits from—are, as far as I can tell, more likely to get a lot angrier about abusive corporate nonsense, simply because they're more invested. I suspect strongly that these people have been purged already over the past 2-3 years. You simply don't hear much about it, because de-platforming them…

Your claim that currently noone posts on Reddit and moderates Reddit is wrong and they were purged is wrong.
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