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Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by m0ck »

harimau777 wrote: post #31

It feels to me like social media has been imploding recently. It seems like I am seeing more and more efforts to overtly force people use an app, associate browsing with an account, and link their account with a real world identity (e.g. via phone number). This in turn makes the platforms less useful and more hostile to users and presumably at some point that will cause users to leave the system. It also feels like s…

If you have thick skin, anonymous imageboards have been here forever, altough the quality of discussion varies.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by nimajneb »

paganel wrote: post #19
CM30 wrote: post #8

Hmm, I just checked myself, and I was able to read comment threads perfectly fine without being logged in, on both a desktop computer and a smartphone. Obviously old.reddit.com doesn't have these issues, but I'm pretty sure the session on smartphone used the new site, and that let me keep reading without any interruptions too. Either way, if Reddit does this, that's it. Not returning to the site. The internet doesn't…

Unfortunately the way things are going I can see them getting rid of old.reddit.com and i.reddit.com, at which point I think I'll also stop visiting the website (the mobile website is atrocious and I'm not going to install a dedicated app in order to read a forum).

I use the (old) desktop site on my phone. I also don't want extra apps that should just be websites.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by jangstrom »

pritambaral wrote: post #40
johnnycab wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I'm not going to install a dedicated app in order to read a forum Apollo (iOS) provides a nice and clean design, as does Joey (Android) which copies the style of the former. Even on the desktop, the experience is smooth and manageable, by using uMatrix and RES, whether you are browsing old.reddit or not. I don't understand the hesitancy in using these enhancements to enrich your user experience.

> I don't understand your hesitancy in using these enhancements to enrich your user experience. Not your parent, but I know of no mobile app that allows me certain enhancements that are simply standard on my (mobile) web browser: tabs, ad-blocking, & accessibility. Tabs: because I multi-task, and I compartmentalise my reading. If all I have is an app, then the app either needs to re-invent tabs within it (none I've f…

FWIW, Apollo doesn't render the ads. Neither does Sync on Android.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by conradfr »

pedrogpimenta wrote: post #20
jeremija wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a feeling they will disable 3rd party apps soon. That will be the day I stop using Reddit.

First they will disable old.reddit.com I think. Then 3rd party apps.

That would be disabling the only two ways I visit reddit (for nine years, wow).

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by senectus1 »

cryptos wrote: post #6

I'm on Reddit, but I would probably have never signed up if I were not able to read comments without login.

this. the zero barrier to entry thing is what sucked me in. I use it multiple times a day for work and for social/news/entertainment...

I dont use FB at all because of in part the barrier to entry.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by kevinali1 »

cies wrote: post #33

Time for a new type of social. That FB users do not move for something less slik-polished-and-widely-used is understandible. But I believe a large part of the reddittors is more keen on privacy, openness, ad-free experience, uncensoredness, etc. I like this one: https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy

I think quality of the conversation will always trump "privacy, openness and ad-free".

We have to pay for quality. If we're not going to pay with dollar bills, we pay with privacy.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by msluyter »

coldpie wrote: post #44
harimau777 wrote: post #31

It feels to me like social media has been imploding recently. It seems like I am seeing more and more efforts to overtly force people use an app, associate browsing with an account, and link their account with a real world identity (e.g. via phone number). This in turn makes the platforms less useful and more hostile to users and presumably at some point that will cause users to leave the system. It also feels like s…

It's the same thing that happens to all "free"/ad-sponsored/VC-backed services. Unless you're FB or Twitter or YouTube, your ads aren't profitable enough to run your business. The business model is unviable unless you get that big. So you lose a bunch of money until you find a way to monetize or close. This always takes the form of user-hostile anti-features. Currently that's forcing users into your special apps, whe…

I call this the dismal equilibrium. Anything free that provides value is, in brute economic terms, mis-priced. Thus, it tends to degrade due to attempts at monetization until a balance is reached between its inherent value and the pain one must endure to use/access it.
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