This was the push I needed to delete my reddit account and I did it yesterday

Reddit really sucks. Once you get one temporary ban, the automated system really fucks you at any point in the future.

Their app performs worse than running their website on Firefox. That's a technical feat of its own.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

This was happening to me but then stopped and I'm not sure why.

I already deleted Reddit from my bookmarks and started adding -reddit.com into my Google searches. If there was an easy way to default -reddit.com into every search then I would do it.

Libredirect, that is all.

f*ck reddit but i miss the steam and steam deck subreddits

Using an app means more bloat, more ads, more notifications, more forced engagement and more tracking. Since the site very clearly works through a mobile browser there is no technical reason for doing this. It is about forcing people to doom scroll this shit rather than check in from time to time.

Any websight pushing stuff like this I refuse to use. I use a degoogled phone so many apps don't work and I use the web browser.

Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to Lemmy Instead

I've corrected the headline for you. Thank me later, alligator.

Read-only and not as polished as some of the older commercial versions, but https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.cosmos.unreddit/ also works. They have different access methods like web scraping. Works well enough for lurking when Reddit isn't blocking my VPN, which they seem to block/unblock at random.

So much information will be lost by locking it behind an app. I hope lemmy is ok answering 20 years worth of reddit questions because we are going to need to document all that information somewhere.

It's crap like this that's the reason why I started looking for alternatives like Lemmy. Reddit is getting a little too big for their britches.

Well - I guess I'll just skip the occasional visit to their site then. Had no account anymore anyways. gfys spez

lemmy is way better than reddit

old.reddit works fine~

Not the first time, they seem to do that like once a year in my experience.
On my (Android) device, the recent blocking is already gone again, having lasted about two weeks.

It is a common strategy: first fix them on, then make life inconvenient for them to push for the next stage (be it app installation, more screen time or paying for stuff).

Seems like Reddit has moved on to the next "fixing on" stage again.

If only Lemmit accepted new subreddits, this would have been a no-issue…

I’ll miss some subreddits 🤷‍♂️