Crossgeposted von: https://lemmy.world/post/57306
As quoted from the linked post.
It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To access the site you can log on via desktop, the mobile apps, or wait for the experiment to conclude.
This is separate from the API issue. This will actually BLOCK you from even viewing reddit on your phone without using the official app.
Archive.org link in case the post is removed.
Yeah, I read this insane "well, Reddit admins will just reopen all the closed subs and things will just keep going like before." And I just can't stop thinking about what a shit show some of those big (and all ready quite toxic) will become. You can't just swap out a group of people to moderate million+ subreddits. It's all just toxic, racist memes all the way from now on.
And tons of nice niche subs will also go down in flames. Kinda sad, tbh.
Hear me out... What if /u/spez is trying to burn it down and fuck the IPO
They are not trying to burn it down. They don't care about those who leave. Reddit wants to be the new TikTok and those who leave over stuff like this are only getting in the way.
How could Reddit ever be a new tiktok???
They sure are racing to the bottom as quick as they can huh?
This is just the natural consequence of IPO's and generally what happens when greed replaces stewardship and community. Profit-seeking was always at odds with user-driven content, it was managable up untill big stupid money managed by disinterested parties got involved, and now we're just in the late stages of Enshitification.
In web site management, experiments deployed to a fraction of users are a great thing for testing new features, or for comparing different UI approaches. They let you find out things like "users use the help button more often if it's next to the search box instead of at the top right" or "people click on ads more if they have a cute pink background".
Literally turning off the service for a fraction of users is, um, not the sort of experiment worth performing. You already know what happens when you have an outage, because you've had outages before. The only difference is that by doing it deliberately, you show that it's not the tech that's unreliable; it's the people running it.
Not to defend reddit or anything, but the linked post and comment are 1 month old.
It's not lies, that's certainly been the case for me. If I visit old reddit, I get a broken page. If I log in and then visit old reddit, it works.
Maybe they're doing a google and rolling out the change gradually across different regions.
This.
The app is where they can control the user the most while gathering maximum data.
So now they're just going about the process of making the app the only way to access their site.
Capitalism has never and will never lead to innovation in anything other than extracting profits.
They're just so entirely bad at it they manage to not make profits on a website with nearly as much traffic as Instagram while paying close to nobody for moderation.
You accidentally shared the save link, not the actual archive link. https://web.archive.org/...
With behaviour like this, they deserve to burn down. Incredible timing to do this as well.
All the more reason to rebuild the useful communities on a different platform.
Well, if they don't want me to use their platform, I guess I won't. No need to boycott if I can't use it in the first place
App can mine more data which is the real product.
The way reddit is behaving, if they think anyone is going to let their dirty lil mining app on their device, they're drunk.
I don't think they ever confirmed it, but I'm pretty sure for a while they were experimenting with blocking people who used VPNs too. There was about two weeks where reddit just didn't work on my laptop and I couldn't figure out why, until I saw a thread where other people were discussing it and someone said try it without the VPN. Sure enough, that did it. Then after a couple of weeks it went back to normal again.
Yo guys get your popcorn
Can you stormfront people stop talking about r***it please? It's been a fash site for years if you were paying attention so why the surprise that the fash site is showing its true colors?
Just block !reddit@lemmy.ml and that should filter out a lot
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