Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to Lemmy Instead
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this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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Thats why I'm back here π±
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Good idea, Reddit.
opens redreader
How does that work? I thought Reddit effectively banned third-party apps by forcing API usage fees?
Either way, I wouldn't browse Reddit now even if they reneged on the API scandal. Bridge has been burned, and the political landscape there seems horrid nowadays.
I read somewhere (who knows where) Red Reader focuses on visual impaired accessibility features so Reddit Corp waives the api fees. I assume it's cheaper for them than developing accessibility features into the official app.
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old.reddit.com is unaffected
The few times I click a link to a Reddit post I immediately change www to old. That new monstrosity is unusable.
For more general usage, you can try Redirector.
You just add a rule like
Redirect: https://www.reddit.com/*
To: https://old.reddit.com/$1
It allows to redirect to alternative frontends, and redirect other webs like YouTube too :)
I will not install their app. Period.
I hope it ends up pushing more people here!
I think that people leaving Reddit will go to Bluesky, Instagram and Discordβ¦
Like anywhere but on the fedi.
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At the same time, I'm worried the community will worsen. I feel this is the only place left that feels like old internet.
You guys are still using reddit?
To steal content so you don't have to. ;)
I use reddit to lurk in niche communities that have zero to no presence here.
For porn, exclusively
This man gets it π
Yep
I have a bit of a following there for the stuff I create
Lemmy just doesn't compare
I did too, until they ip banned me for using a vpn
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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.
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They're still doing it? When I accidentally click a reddit link I don't get the paywall anymore.
Or maybe they saw that it was a 100% bounce rate from me and then reverted the behavior (like a cookie with a counter, after 20 bounces don't show the paywall anymore?)
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.
Better use the actual -site:domain function to filter out by domain directly. You can in example search everything about Reddit, without results from Reddit itself:
reddit -site:reddit.com -site:redditinc.com -site:reddithelp.com
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That dumbass app was enough reason why I'm here.
I'd say it's responsible for at least 75% of us being here!
I'm pretty of the other 25% who came here because we got banned for saying something that offended someone's feefees. I honestly couldn't be happier.
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They're gonna shut down old reddit or make it a premium feature aren't they?
Theyβre gonna shut down old reddit
Day they do that is the day I never go back to Reddit.
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