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Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers (old.reddit.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230611224026/https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/jim40zg/

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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (15 children)

Why? It's a less mature platform with less features and not enough content. I get the idea of it being attractive but it's like Mastadon without the content you've got an uphill climb.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Because it doesn't actively try to make your experience worse

    The problems with lemmy are actively trying to be solved, the problems with reddit are artificially created in order to make the user miserable.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    The main reason is that although the concessions we make may seem ever so insignificant, they pile up and dettach you from what you were looking for in the first place. You barely see your acquaintances posts on instagram or facebook anymore. Twitter is on it's way to become a cesspool. Every new Reddit "feature" just makes the experience worse. It won't be long for those platforms to all converge into a big mind grinder for propaganda.

    In fediverse there is no valuation seeking to ruin things, and there won't be for the foreseeable future, so it's good ground to build upon, it's just good sense.

    Take the content problem for example. You can think of that as an opportunity to be the content you want to see.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    It feels a lot more snappy, clean, and modern. I think most of that is because it hasn't accumulated a lot of the bloat and feature creep that Reddit has over the years. The biggest downside, though, is that the community is much smaller and there isn't a lot of the niche content that Reddit is so good for.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    As soon as more of those niche communities start to pop up, there won't be much reason not to use it over Reddit. It's like a back-to-basics version of Reddit.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Exactly. Every advantage I hear that Reddit has over Lemmy comes from the community, not the platform. Add or move those communities to Lemmy and I don’t think people will see much reason to use Reddit.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    The struggle is going to be getting the community to actually move over here.

    Like it or not, Lemmy takes work to use and understand. It’s not the best metaphor, but Lemmy is a custom built PC whereas Reddit is a plug-and-play console. Mix that with the growing pains new platforms need to go through, and it’ll be tricky to pull new people in.

    It took me about 20-30 minutes to get a handle on what’s going on, and hopefully it gets simpler as more people join!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Maybe I already had the right models in my brain, but for me I just created an account and started using it like reddit. Only thing different are the different servers.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Finding and subscribing to communities on other instances is not slick enough. I hope it improves. It would be nice if people could discover and subscribe to communities without even having to think about which instance they are on.

    Other than that, everything seems very straightforward.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah but, referencing your analogy, if you want knowledgeable and informative conversation, you want to talk to your custom PC buddy, not the friends who only know how to plug and play. The comments sections on Lemmy are not dumpster fires like on Reddit

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    And there was a time when the same could be said for Reddit. Is Lemmy perfect? Of course not, but at least we have the ability to build something better instead of making the hippo dance to our beat, as it were.

    Not to mention there's a lot of those features that have been added over the years that we could do without. Nobody's clamoring for an RPAN clone over here (I hope), or for three different ways to DM/chat with people.

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