| ▲ | simonw 8 hours ago |
| This is so upsetting. No wonder people spend more time in mobile apps than they do using the mobile web - the default web experience on so many sites is terrible. |
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| ▲ | MBCook 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I’ve been using the Reddit app some lately after being a longtime old.Reddit.com + blocker person. Ignoring how [ad] navigation is kinda annoying [ad] the shear [ad] number of ads [ad] they [ad] insert [ad] is insane. The only good thing is none of them seem to be animated/video. Which is an incredibly low bar, but most sites can’t even jump that. |
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| ▲ | dwayne_dibley 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'll probably leave reddit when old.Reddit.com gets the chop | | |
| ▲ | MBCook 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I suspect I will too. I’ve been playing with the app a bit as it’s easier for me on my phone to view subs that are mostly pictures (e.g. awuariums). But I only do it from time to time. Apollo was much better, of course. | |
| ▲ | ericd 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Same, but it sounds like Lemmy still has some issues, and it'll be hard to replace some of the niche subreddits. | | |
| ▲ | MBCook 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It kind of doesn’t matter. The thing that makes Reddit, to me, is its size. Lemmy will never get there, so it won’t be able to replace it for me. I love Mastodon, it’s what I use, but it’s not what I lost with Twitter. Some stayed, some went to BlueSky, some Threads, some just gave up.
And we’ll never have it again. Assholes destroyed a whole world out of selfishness. | |
| ▲ | qingcharles 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is the problem. There's no good replacement for Reddit right now, and Digg just died again. | | |
| ▲ | MBCook 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I’m honestly amazed they tried that. It’s been so long, it felt like a play to cache in on the name but I feel like a huge chunk of people don’t really remember it or weren’t even around for it. |
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| ▲ | chuckadams 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | To say nothing of all the personal data the app is hoovering up. Guarantee that every last thing you granted permissions for is something they're monetizing. |
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| ▲ | simonw 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I had Claude Code profile the page (using headless Chrome) to see what was going on, here's the resulting report: https://github.com/simonw/research/blob/main/pcgamer-audit/R... |
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