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Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by klooney »

paganel wrote: post #147
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)

> 25% of black teens in their acquisition press release Not necessarily illegal, but I had thought that, for sure, one shouldn't boast about heavily discriminatory race-related factoids, even if they thought that it would be for a "good" cause. Didn't they think what would have happened had they replaced the "black teens" in their press release with "white teens"?

That's how Americans say "lots of the cool kids use the app".

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by HWR_14 »

aveao wrote: post #148
Razengan wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could this all be deliberate to tank Reddit stock as soon as it goes public to make money off shorting?

that'd be insider trading, and FTC has generally has opinions about that

The FTC may have opinions about that, but the SEC files lawsuits about it.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by hapticmonkey »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

"Sink It for Reddit"

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by tetris11 »

chaosjevil wrote: post #150
_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…

There's a second response: to not reward AND punish the offending party. I've been recommending people to replace their content in Reddit with literal gibberish (from random generators), and then delete their accounts. Each person doing this makes Reddit data less valuable for LLMs, and eventually it means that not even Google, Amazon, Microsoft etc. would ever bother paying for API access.

I sunk 15 years of myself into reddit. I am there in all my teenage angst, and you get to see me mature before your eyes.

I can't just delete. I've helped people there, and been helped. If my data is part of a corpus that betters humanity, than so be it. Hopefully one day that corpus will be released under a FOSS license.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by motoxpro »

klooney wrote: post #151
paganel wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 25% of black teens in their acquisition press release Not necessarily illegal, but I had thought that, for sure, one shouldn't boast about heavily discriminatory race-related factoids, even if they thought that it would be for a "good" cause. Didn't they think what would have happened had they replaced the "black teens" in their press release with "white teens"?

That's how Americans say "lots of the cool kids use the app".

Yeah, GP, this is not so much race thing as it is a cultural "where the cool kids are" thing.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by bollos »

bastawhiz wrote: post #122
EMIRELADERO wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I do not agree with the trend, especially how it's currently going, I think this is how Reddit leadership (and many other C-level/PM people of other brands like YouTube) view it: the site isn't a place to choose what to see, it's a consume consume consume kind of thing. Similar to YouTube removing granularity levels for filtering videos on channels, it's not a content library. It's not even a video rental store…

That's not the attractive part of TikTok-style feeds for business leadership: it requires you to engage with exactly one thing at a time. And you don't decide what that one thing is, and they can make it an ad. It's not a movie theater, it's a TV station. As long as the thing you're looking at is compelling enough to stay after they slap you in the face with an advertisement every few seconds (every 8-30 seconds, on…

I'm always surprised by the sheer amount of ads on Instagram. TikTok barely shows me any ads, even through prolonged periods of me using the app. Using Instagram is pain with the constant amount of identical ads being shoved down the pipeline.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by nextlevelwizard »

hayst4ck wrote: post #47

I have been in this A/B test group and I have been in the A/B test group that tries to show a TikTok style feed (one that gets new content based on the content you spent time observing) rather than a normalized upvote based one. Without old.reddit.com, I would have not used reddit. I think it is important to never comply with these forced changes. I think there is a larger discussion on professional ethics to be had.…

I want both. I want the old.reddit.com UI, but I would like to have algorithm curated feed. I am sick and tired of all the USA politics on there. I've added a lot of the political subreddits to my filters, but that just means sometimes when I browse r/all I just get a blank page since every single post on that page was from political subreddit.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by hkt »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Alas, you're incorrect. It is the whole point of capitalism.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by Starmina »

hapticmonkey wrote: post #96
skinkestek wrote: post #83

I assume this comes in addition to "reminding" me multiple times a day, sometimes when I click a link, sometimes seemingly on a timer loop while I am just reading, that they have an app? Yes. I tried the app. The app is better not because it is good but because they deliberately break the web. Also the app seems to eat battery and I am planning on charging my new iPhone 14 twice a day to use it or jump through hoops…

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.

You can also use the "Userscripts" extension and add this userscript to https://drop.tf/FaCcNg redirect to "/.i" website.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

l0ngyap wrote: post #40

Reddit day gone start build your own forum with forem or discource

I remember few forums I was in a long time back, and all of them went offline and all its content is gone, so yeah there would always be this risk with a user maintained forum.
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