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Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

It’s just unbelievable that a website which is 100% dependent on users generating content blocks users from accessing the site simply to squeeze more revenue from selling user data to the highest bidder.

I’ll keep using all kinds of blockers and will continue refusing to use their ******tified app.
 
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I stopped using Reddit when they destroyed their already limited open API. I had issues with their horrible excuses for management before, but that was the last straw.
 
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xmarcuswildx said:
rhyme.com

Rhyme — A more intentional social media.

A more intentional social media. Organized around the things you love, not the people shouting loudest. Closed beta, invitation only.
rhyme.com rhyme.com

This project sounds promising. Mixing old with new. Has a fairly decent way to deal with AI and bots posting and commenting all over. Can restrict repeat posts extremely well.
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Let us know when it finally opens up

The days of breathlessly waiting on some waiting list for some unreleased Service are way behind me.

That’s a relic of the bygone era when tech was actually exciting.
 
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I never used Reddit, never created an account.
If a site I use did this, I would instantly stop using it.
As simple as that.
 
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Terrible platform, rife with censorship and bias. Visit one subreddit, another one bans you just for association.

They can have it, it's a carefully curated experience so people with a narrow worldview can all agree with each other.

I never posted anything remotely against TOS, but I got banned from my local city, state, and several of my hobby subreddits. This was from commenting simple things like mass illegal immigration is not a good policy, borders should be enforced, things like that. Then, people flag your account so Reddit will send you a wellness checkup e-mail.

I have since it blocked at the router level in my house. Not getting one cent of ad revenue from my family.
 
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ReliableSource said:
... as soon as I found out about the AI training, I deleted every single comment and post I ever made and deleted my account. They can kick rocks.
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And if your contributions were in any way substantial, they were immediately reinstated by Reddit with no further recourse for you to remove them again, since you've already deleted your account. A number of users have posted about this happening to them. Reddit went full-on-user-antagonistic when they decided to shift to a profit-centric model.

The biggest loss that Reddit suffered, though, was one that they can't just "reinstate"... the ongoing contributions of all of those very knowledgeable users that abruptly went from a firehose to a trickle. Sure, some other people who don't care about the monetization came in to try to fill the void... but it will never be quite as good as it once was.
 
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I hate how businesses treat their users with distain. Especially tech companies and their stupid "experiments". Oh let's give a subset of users a different experience. Some get a block, some don't. We're users/customers not science experiments. Imagine if the grocery store gave you different experiences. You walk in and some people can buy toilet paper and others can't see it. You'd walk out and go somewhere that wouldn't play games with you.
 
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djc6 said:
I miss using Reddit. I was shadowbanned for 'technical irregularities' because I posted in a short period of time from my old ISP (Cox) and my new ISP (AT&T fiber) on r/ATTFiber asking for help setting up my new home ISP. It didn't seem to like my posting from multiple IPs in quick succession. I've probably filled out appeals form 100 times since October and no reply.
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Create a new account and redo your subs
 
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I hate how businesses treat their users with distain. Especially tech companies and their stupid "experiments". Oh let's give a subset of users a different experience. Some get a block, some don't. We're users/customers not science experiments. Imagine if the grocery store gave you different experiences. You walk in and some people can buy toilet paper and others can't see it. You'd walk out and go somewhere that wouldn't play games with you.
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I think the problem is that you are *not* the customer! The advertising and AI companies scraping your data are the customers.
 
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macintologist said:
Create a new account and redo your subs
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I made a new account and it was also immediately shadowbanned. I basically can't use it from my home ISP anymore.

I've disconnected my ISP provided router for a day and still get the same public IP, AT&T says its essentially static.

I've tried posting from VPN but this also results in an immediate shadowban - they don't seem to like you using well known VPN IPs either.

I can log in to these accounts, and everything appears to be normal - but no one can see my posts, and its been verified using r/Shadowban as a test.
 
djc6 said:
I miss using Reddit. I was shadowbanned for 'technical irregularities' because I posted in a short period of time from my old ISP (Cox) and my new ISP (AT&T fiber) on r/ATTFiber asking for help setting up my new home ISP. It didn't seem to like my posting from multiple IPs in quick succession. I've probably filled out appeals form 100 times since October and no reply.
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I swear it's all algorithm based and if you get banned there is no hope of getting out of it haha.
 
Reddit has been ******tified for so long now, it and its kindred like Yelp make it easy and in fact obligatory to drop them like the plague they eventually become. I avoid any links that are reddit related and use search engines that promote those links even less these days.

[update] here's a custom search to exclude duckduckgo AI search results and Reddit results:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s+-site%3Areddit.com&noai=1&ia=web
 
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zarmanto said:
And if your contributions were in any way substantial, they were immediately reinstated by Reddit with no further recourse for you to remove them again, since you've already deleted your account. A number of users have posted about this happening to them. Reddit went full-on-user-antagonistic when they decided to shift to a profit-centric model.

The biggest loss that Reddit suffered, though, was one that they can't just "reinstate"... the ongoing contributions of all of those very knowledgeable users that abruptly went from a firehose to a trickle. Sure, some other people who don't care about the monetization came in to try to fill the void... but it will never be quite as good as it once was.
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That makes me wonder. I do remember seeing a lot of comments about how difficult it was to get histories deleted; it took me several runs of the browser extension I was using before my history was fully deleted.

My history probably wasn't substantial enough for them to try to recover, but you're right: I was a fairly significant contributor in a few small niche subs that I will never post in again, and obviously there are plenty of others who feel the same. It's going to become an ouroboros of slop as more and more of the good contributors leave.
 
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