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Funny how they don't even pretend there's any logic to it. If you can view it in the app, then the content has been reviewed after all...? Clearly just a way to enforce app usage.
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
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They want ad revenue and the app is the only place they can be confident you’re not blocking.
They don't say it, but you can also go to old.reddit and there's none of those stupid warnings.
Still blocks my vpn though
I cannot stress this enough: if you just want to browse reddit without interacting with anyone and supporting their greedy, stupid bullshit, I highly recommend RDX.
If you absolutely have to read something from reddit and it throws this, just switch to the desktop site instead of mobile.
Desktop doesn't work anymore, gotta use old.reddit now.
Hilarious how their logic completely breaks down when doing that, and they don't even care if you know.
They want you to download the app so they can collect your data and push ads that can't be blocked with browser extensions.
And whenever they want to drop a site-wide ban for any reason, it's easier to punish the whole device instead of fixing issues or pretending that most of the ad viewership doesn't consist of bots.
We're expecting a giant influx of users when the popular workaround, old.reddit.com (perhaps with RES to make it less outdated), inevitably gets shut down. Please try to make Lemmy a worthwile space in the meantime so that they stay!
Reddit is already rate-limiting old.reddit.com traffic. There are already few threads about it.
As long as they’re fans of trans positive meme dumps and endless half-serious slap fights about distros, they'll feel right at home.
They won't even notice anything changed
...you also must despise Trump, and if you don't, you will.
Don't forget the Rule 34 manga and rhetoric of not sexualising anything. Also the college kid Marxists.... and Linux cults... And figuring out liberalism and "American liberals" are polar opposites. Basically avoid .ml And obviously don't let anyone know your skin colour, gender, or sexual preferences if they're vanilla. And support all war that's against Russia. I think that's it- Oh, and don't reply to the same person more than twice in a thread.
Apart from that, they'll feel right at home.
Ah, yeah, and obv use Thunder.
You forgot to mention the furry porn... so much furry porn...
And please actively remind people to remain civil. We can be better than Reddit in so many ways. I believe!
I think Lemmy is and will be quite good at remaining civil because the questionable content makers use their own instances and get defederated. The most edgy community federated with the main cluster I found is !funhole@lemmy.sdf.org. It features cryptic posts that presumably make sense if you engage in the decentralized (IRC? Telnet??) discourse channels of sdf.org and some appear to be pro-fascist depending on how you interpret the questionable veil of sarcasm. I don't think it's serious enough to consider defederation because the worst ones get massively downvoted anyway.