But yes the same ... This has reminded me of the early days of Reddit itself. Far fewer uses and posts so generally actually interesting rather than 'scroll fodder'
It's actually not an app it just uses a manifest.json so you get a wrapper with icon on your home screen.. Once launched its just the same as when you invoke the URL via browser.
Agree but they lost good opportunities I think by not properly engaging with people like the Apollo developer. Someone who evidently understood their need to monetize their API etc but instead of thinking what's reasonable they seemed to have pivoted to crazy.
And if Reddit does make positive changes those same passive users who believe anything corporations tell them (the type who call everyone else idiots because they don't understand business) will laud the charges and say how great Reddit is for making them.
This happens so often in tech. "Company X should never change' becomes 'i love company X because they've improved!'
People can be weirdly aggressive in how they align with their favorite corporate 3rd parties.
To add to others just as a dataset point; I'm accessing fine through Chrome on Android 13.
To then validate I just tried for the first time through Edge and that worked fine too.
Is your SO running anything different to 'stock'? Not that it should matter, of course, but it might help trying to narrow down why the issues are happening for them and not others. For ref. I'm on the most 'stock' setup you could imagine: Pixel 6 as it came out of the box.
It protects them from liablility for anything on their platform because it's 3rd party created. As such they are seen, legally, much like a cellphone carrier who can't be held responsible for illegal activity even if its entirely connected over their network.
Once they have staff on subs they'd move to being a publisher not an intermediary.
I have been joking to a couple of friends today who were also redditors that I've been feeling withdrawals from reddit throughout the day. Like I knew I was addicted, I just never thought I was going to have to face the consequences of withdrawals!...
I used Reddit in two ways, must like many others it seems, where I'd scroll through older a coffee just to get a quick update on the world, but also as a route to answers and discussions on topics I'd navigate to directly from a Google search.
The first part I won't miss at all particularly. Not because it wasn't enjoyable but this kind of churn and pivot into a new aggregator has happened before and I actually quite like being at the start of a community. I look back on being on Reddit right at the start when everyone transitioned from digg etc and it was quite a fascinating time. A barren landscape for a while. But fun to see it grow. Plus early users are generally a bit more interesting. My feed in Reddit had all the general subs removed so I was generally looking at smaller subs anyway.
The second part I will miss but I'm finding I've just started going back to actual forums etc and also directly going to interesting websites based on things I navigated to via Reddit previously. I think they likely appreciate the traffic.
Yep presume they just want people who are happy to be inundated with ads they can't block whilst reading fake corporate shill posts from PR companies hyping products.
Reddit comments on every post about the blackouts (i.imgur.com)
OC I think that it is a good thing that Kbin got "locked down" behind CloudFlare and unfederated as we settle in.
I created an account on both Lemmy.World and here, and I have to say, I kind of wish that all the servers experienced something similar. Why?...
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Whats a song (or more than one) that you like, or been listening to lately?
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout โwill passโ (www.theverge.com)
Spez, and Reddit as a whole is basically counting on most subreddits opening back up tomorrow after the 48-hour period....
OC Any other former redditors feeling grief?
I have been joking to a couple of friends today who were also redditors that I've been feeling withdrawals from reddit throughout the day. Like I knew I was addicted, I just never thought I was going to have to face the consequences of withdrawals!...
Yikes! Reddit turning off mobile access to reddit.