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The overlay could be removed with an ad blocker, or they could switch to Desktop View, or they could switch to Old Reddit.
Even better, they could switch to the Threadiverse and not need to deal with a company progressively tightening the belt on user freedom for profit maximization.
For now, you can clear cookies and the pop up goes away. I suspect they will eventually retire the website, as is mostly the case for tiktok, which is pretty much impossible to use on the web. Corporations in general are trying to destroy the web in favor of apps, and consumers have been trained to expect everything to be an app, so there's a risk that someday browsers as we know them will be a niche web technology.
IMO ad blocking is the best and only answer here. The Old and desktop sites are okay, but pretty tough to handle on a mobile device. Especially one without an ad blocker
That's incorrect, leaving the platform is the best answer.
Secondarily there is alternative frontends like Stealth, Libreddit and Troddit.
Oldlander extension and old.reddit.com is pretty good. I prefer RedReader, though.
Touché. Although I hope that by the point people have extensions on their mobile browser, they have an ad blocker too!
I tried to remove it with uBO and it still wouldn't let me scroll no matter how much I zapped
Why not simply repost all the content to lemmy and slam the door on reddit
Reposting Reddit content in bulk to Lemmy (versus individual users reposting their own guides or informational posts) does nothing to organically build communities here, instead leaving a bunch of empty posts that make their communities look dead. It's a chicken and egg problem, of course, but simply copying Reddit content wholesale isn't the answer.
Edit: Just want to clarify that I'm not doing any downvotes here, and see the logic in that having the best of the best Reddit content here could help convince some people to look at otherwise dead communities. The problem is that relying on such content encourages Lemmy users to be consumers of content rather than producers in their own right, and therefore think that maximizing opportunities for Lemmy users to contribute in their own right is for the best.
I respectfully disagree. Just limit number of reposts to the most quality upvoted reddit content timely reposted - and you have no problem. Right now I can refresh lemmy 5 times during the day and see the same content
This is the main reason I am here. Because it is a natural limit to doomscrolling all day.
Really? Cause im seeing new stuff all the time. Maybe you need to find more things to subscribe to? Piefed hasva ton they give you the option to subscribe to as well as feeds (groups of like communities you can subscribe to).
You will be surprised if you block about 20 people who post a lot, fediverse then looks completely different.
Blocking a few many posters does indeed create this effect , feels great .
Someone had a Lemmy instance that did this for quite a while. It's gone now unfortunately.
There's many bots doing that for some subs....
And there should be way more. Why people going back to reddit otherwise.