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Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by killerstorm »

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)

I don't understand... Why does it have to be one app?

Can't they make a TikTok-like app with a subreddit as a backend? So ppl get same content but with a different front-end?

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by slashtab »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #87
_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…

Yeah, I’ve been using BaconReader for years. It’s going to stop working soon and I’m simply going to stop using Reddit. I used to use it for more but the last few years I only use it for porn and I recently discovered that the redgifs site is great for that. Obviously not everyone uses Reddit only for this purpose but I suspect that when the third party apps go dark redgifs will get a nice bump in new users.

Is jumping from one corporate ship to another a good idea? At some point they peak and become greedy. I don't know what's the solution. Can we have better open source alternative and people fund it? Recently I learned DPRreviews went down because Amazon didn't profit enough from it. There are way too many stories like this.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by ghayes »

pmontra wrote: post #229
bredren wrote: post #149

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I use Apollo to read Reddit, but mod using desktop web. Definitely the Apollo and handling of the API changes is annoying. But this was much more a straw that broke the camel’s back thing from a mod perspective. I’ve mentioned this before but I am on the mod team for r/portland and the Reddit admin has been terrible at providing tools and support for serious content mod problems and straight up platform abuse. There…

> There was an incident where we had someone who stuck out as disturbed say they would be carrying out a mass shooting event. Did you report that to 911?

Unless the threat seemed imminent, wouldn't the FBI be better at addressing this concern?

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by freddie_mercury »

shmatt wrote: post #50
freddie_mercury wrote: post #20

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I lurk in a few subreddits that have well established forums outside of Reddit (decades old with tens of thousands of users) that are the top Google results and I'm always a bit amazed that people will still post on Reddit instead of using those other forums where they will get much, much better answers.

They need to create a username and password to ask that question? If they already have a Reddit account that wins

Sure, I mostly understand. I meant amazed more like the context of the OP of Reddit draining people away from other forums. Amazed that all it takes is saving them 15 seconds of creating a new account, often on a forum that has better features than Reddit, for them to prefer Reddit. It doesn't take much for people to opt in to a centralized internet.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by thomasahle »

tiew9Vii wrote: post #223
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)

It's interesting everything trying to be TikTok. As a user, if I wanted TikTok i'd use TikTok. I don't want TikTok, so I don't use TikTok. I use Facebook mainly for hobby/owners groups these days as that's where a lot of them are. I sometimes use the market place. My feed is mainly my interests, motorbikes, local events, local cafes/restaurants etc etc. Then there's reels i never interact with which get forced on me…

> It's interesting everything trying to be TikTok. As a user, if I wanted TikTok i'd use TikTok. I don't want TikTok, so I don't use TikTok.

> ...

> It's sad when every tech company tries to replicate another companies features ditching the very thing which their users originally joined them for.

I wonder if we might give this a name like "tradegy of the social networks".

It's easy to see how a company, like Meta/Instagram can choose between keeping their own smaller market, or taking half the tiktok market by transforming their app to reels. They can't do both, as nobody would install a new app.

For the users this suck, as the total market is now smaller, meaning less choice and diversity.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by Randomizer42 »

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)

That was the whole point.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by intelVISA »

The_Blade wrote: post #113
pwdisswordfishc wrote: post #110

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This is Silicon Valley (the real life) level comical.

listen spez has to re-billionize, his children need wine

Don't speak ill of spez, they'll edit the DB directly to censor you!

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by intelVISA »

p-e-w wrote: post #82
MattGaiser wrote: post #61

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> they converted it to a subreddit with 1.5k subscribers. That definitely belongs in a textbook on absurd corporate decisions. I thought you must have been exaggerating somewhere, but nope, that is exactly how it went. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubsmash https://old.reddit.com/r/dubsmash/

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…

Atlassian sends its regards.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by Sharparam »

chaosjevil wrote: post #172
tetris11 wrote: post #154

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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.

I can relate to your intentions, but keep in mind that, when you leave your data there, you're effectively encouraging people to keep using a user-hostile platform that will likely wall those people's content in. In the long run, you aren't making humanity better - you're worsening it. Instead a better approach is to migrate whatever you deem useful in your Reddit history to another platform. And then remove it from…

The thing is that there's a lot of valuable information that I don't think we should just delete like that.

When you search about a Neovim issue for example, often the solution is in an old Reddit thread. When you delete that, it will be gone forever.

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