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Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by lannisterstark »

wiseowise wrote: post #273
lannisterstark wrote: post #116

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Yes. Putting people through hoops and then going "were we really friends if you didn't do it for me, huh, HUUUUH?" is a "I'm the main character" mindset. A friend recently deleted all his apps and he asks me I just email him if I want to talk. I'm just not gonna do that. I barely remember to email my work people.

> A friend recently deleted all his apps and he asks me I just email him if I want to talk. I'm just not gonna do that. I barely remember to email my work people. If you put them below “work people”, they’re not a friend. Or rather, you’re not a friend.

Indeed. That's something this strategy helps to trim out. Who I want to talk to and jump through hoops for, and whom I don't.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by data-ottawa »

awestroke wrote: post #539
data-ottawa wrote: post #514

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No typo, the other commenter is correct. Screen Time on iOS/macOS lets you override the clock but in a “snooze” style. It blocks me from habitually browsing the front page but lets me land there from search.

So you've restricted the reddit domain to 1 minute?

Yes, it’s combined between Reddit web, app, and Apollo.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by ryanmercer »

Sharparam wrote: post #270
chaosjevil wrote: post #172

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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.

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

Agreed. In the past 2 days I've been overly annoyed as both days I've had multiple google queries dump me to seemingly useful threads that I can not see because of this foolish nonsense of shuttering communities in "protest".

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by ryanmercer »

websap wrote: post #279
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…

Wow! Reddit as a business does a disservice to mods by not compensating them for the effort they put in to keep these communities safe and functional. Also, this entire thing about the API has made me feel that there is a future for decentralized apps, where money in the forms of tokens can exchange hands between - content creators, mods, consumers and those that help run the network, without a central entity consumi…

>Wow! Reddit as a business does a disservice to mods by not compensating them for the effort they put in to keep these communities safe and functional.

No one is forcing us to mod. We mod because we value the communities we mod and like being active parts of them. I don't want Reddit to pay me, it isn't a job, it's a passion and a hobby.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by paganel »

ForHackernews wrote: post #395
paganel wrote: post #241

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> one that is very valuable for the VC crowd because it's where cool stuff originates. Still sounds racist, in its way. As in, why aren't the black kids seen as the boring, nerdish kids that will get to form the VC crowd themselves in 20 years' time? Later edit: Reminds me of this Dave Chapelle skit [1], the part with the "white dude" whispering: > Oh, my God, I think those black guys are gonna try to save us It's ju…

> As in, why aren't the black kids seen as the boring, nerdish kids that will get to form the VC crowd themselves in 20 years' time? That's a good question and if you're sincerely interested in understanding the answer, there's a long history of thought on the topic of black excellence in the context of racial oppression. You could start with W.E.B. Du Bois and the "Talented Tenth" For the record, I'm assuming your q…

> W.E.B. Du Bois and the "Talented Tenth"

Thank you for the your recommendation.

Found it funny that one of the establishment's darling magazines, I'm talking about Foreign Affairs, has started doing the token racial thing when it comes to Du Bois by finding out that he had, indeed, written for them 70 to 80 years ago [1], and in the May/June issue they even re-published a July 1943 piece of his. No mention of his communism, of course, that would defeat the purpose of talking about race without really looking at what stands behind race.

[1] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/web-du-bois-doc...

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by bollos »

nosianu wrote: post #243
bollos wrote: post #156

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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.

This would make me suspicious, and my first assumption would be that the ads are hidden as fake content. On reddit it's quite obvious, when there's yet another /r/funny post about some (for example) "funny" Coke bottle thing or some other brand. Lots of those kinds of posts, actually. Also a lot of quite obvious fake engagement-encouraging posts, such as the many question reddits with thread-creating questions (/r/As…

They're either hidden extremely well, I'm oblivious to them or they're not there as much I'd say.

Most of the things I get on TikTok are, I would argue, genuine content that someone made because they wanted to or is following along a trend that is ongoing. I don't get a lot of people showing off a product, and often when they do it's for stuff I'm interested in and I'm already following them for.

Perhaps its a matter of diversity. Instagram feels very monotone in its ads: bottom barrel mobile games or brands trying to sell me their garbage I don't need nor would be interested in. TikTok on the other hand feels less monotonous in what I get shown.

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