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Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by jeltz » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 9:06 AM UTC

klrants wrote: post #283

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)

Yes, everyone has TikTok envy since Musk started to augment Twitter to a video publishing platform. This model does not fit for Reddit with its poor execution (old.reddit.com is still the best) and its user base. More sites will split off and use the old.reddit.com code base.

TikTok envy existed long before Musk bought Twitter.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by soco » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 9:07 AM UTC

johnnyanmac wrote: post #176

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…

>Dubsmash allowed users to videotape themselves while lip syncing over audio clips and including sections of songs, movies, and famous quotes. Users could upload their own audio and add colour but not filters and text animation to their videos Is this really the kind of competition that made reddit quake in its boots? Like, I never heard of Dubsmash until now but this was still around the later years of Vine. Reddit…

I wonder, would TikTok have been the same if another stupid acquisition wouldn't have killed Vine?

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by visarga » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 9:09 AM UTC

pixel3234 wrote: post #271

tiew9Vii wrote: post #223

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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…

> I wanted TikTok i'd use TikTok You want some experience, but then you describe how Youtube is forcing you to click through shorts and BS as that. I think power users should give up on direct interaction with internet. With youtube you can have a scripts that download videosm, and filter out shorts, ads and other garbage. With news you can just print everything on laser printer... Spotify should be exported as bunch…

> It is very easy to hire some English speaking assistant in India or Philippines, or have cron jobs that does tedious work for you.

Mate, can I interest you in a bit of GPT? We got 3.5 and 4, good shit, you don't need to hire someone. The newsfeed is not a critical task, AI will suffice.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by soco » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 9:11 AM UTC

DiscourseFan wrote: post #175

hkt wrote: post #158

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

Maybe real life capitalism. Fantasy capitalism, on the other hand...

But this is the same discussion as with communism, where the fans will rush you for saying that real-life communism sucks so badly, and tell you they will do it By The Book (or something). It's always surprising how many people take their truths from books instead of what's in front of their noses...

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by _djo_ » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 9:16 AM UTC

Aachen wrote: post #280

Garvi wrote: post #278

I remember the weekly rotating "Covid in Russia" threads in /r/worldnews where people were cheering for more Russian deaths. Voicing objections didn't get you just shadowbanned, to maintain the illusion that everyone agrees that Russians need to die, it got you permabanned on multiple of the biggest subreddits. For voicing objections to this vile practice, my 8 year old account got permabanned from /r/worldnews, /r/m…

I can't decide how to feel about this. It's unrelated to the reddit access issue and very hard to believe (the "I got banned for saying it's bad to wish for covid to kill random citizens and multiple subreddits conspire against me" part, not the hiding accents part). At the same time, it sounds bad and I somehow don't expect malice from your side, just misunderstanding somewhere. So idk, I understand that it's hard t…

Indeed. My recollection of similar threads at the time was not a celebration of Russian deaths, but a mockery of official Russian statistics that were claiming an implausibly low number of hospitalised and dead.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by lostlogin » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 9:19 AM UTC

vidarh wrote: post #284

greiskul wrote: post #239

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Anyone that I know that has worked in Big tech in the past decade knows that. There has nothing that managed to capture the slice of life absurdity that Big Tech can be at some times than that show.

There were times I thought "I know someone like that", there were times I thought "I know that person", and there were times I literally knew people on it... It was disturbing to watch.

It could be worse. If you get to ‘there I am’, it’s too late.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by kirubakaran » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 9:24 AM UTC

lostlogin wrote: post #296

vidarh wrote: post #284

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There were times I thought "I know someone like that", there were times I thought "I know that person", and there were times I literally knew people on it... It was disturbing to watch.

It could be worse. If you get to ‘there I am’, it’s too late.

To say “there I am”, you’d need to possess a level of self awareness that would prevent you from acting in a way that would make lampooning you fun

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by Garvi » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 9:25 AM UTC

_djo_ wrote: post #295

Aachen wrote: post #280

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I can't decide how to feel about this. It's unrelated to the reddit access issue and very hard to believe (the "I got banned for saying it's bad to wish for covid to kill random citizens and multiple subreddits conspire against me" part, not the hiding accents part). At the same time, it sounds bad and I somehow don't expect malice from your side, just misunderstanding somewhere. So idk, I understand that it's hard t…

Indeed. My recollection of similar threads at the time was not a celebration of Russian deaths, but a mockery of official Russian statistics that were claiming an implausibly low number of hospitalised and dead.

How I wish all those threads weren't all systematically deleted after one week, so we could delve into them right now, but they were, for some reason. And here's my anonymous word against yours. The celebration of Russian deaths started out as morbid innuendos. Example: "Oof, i really really hope not more Russians die, wink-wink. lmao". As time went on the comments became more open and more vile. No objecting voice was left in the threads, as they were cleaned by the free mods into a perfect echo chamber. A fake testament to how alone you are in opposing such thinking.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by Aachen » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 9:27 AM UTC

Garvi wrote: post #289

Aachen wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't decide how to feel about this. It's unrelated to the reddit access issue and very hard to believe (the "I got banned for saying it's bad to wish for covid to kill random citizens and multiple subreddits conspire against me" part, not the hiding accents part). At the same time, it sounds bad and I somehow don't expect malice from your side, just misunderstanding somewhere. So idk, I understand that it's hard t…

Those threads were at the top of /r/worldnews for months. Each week the old one would be deleted and a new one posted. Everyone has seen them. Why are people pretending they weren't there? Because no one is going to admit they supported this or were the ones that looked the other way. Not even to themselves - they're the heroes of their own story. I understand the situation and why I'm downvoted - I wouldn't have pos…

I'm not pretending. I simply haven't seen them. I'm not subscribed to "worldnews"

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by fifticon » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 9:27 AM UTC

andruby wrote: post #258

If users want to make a statement and move away from Reddit, where should they move to? What’s an alternative to reddit that is closer to the original reddit? Sidenote: could the 3rd reddit party clients embrace such an alternative and give it a meaningful boost in usage?

https://lobste.rs/ is one alternative.