You guys are still using reddit?
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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Fuck you spez.
They're gonna shut down old reddit or make it a premium feature aren't they?
I will not install their app. Period.
I hope it ends up pushing more people here!
👋 hello it’s me
More people
Welcome!! :)
If you're on Firefox, download a user agent plug in and change your your browser to say it's a tablet or windows pc. Problem solved. I already do this when their page locking pop-up started bothering me lol
That dumbass app was enough reason why I'm here.
RedReader still works and isn't all that bad.
Welcome Reddit refugees! (Dumb assholes, bots and shills notwithstanding.)
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.
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.
I saw this recently, it had an X button to close for me.
old.reddit works fine~
This also worked for me for the longest time. I recently stopped using Reddit (as we all should) but if you gotta use it at least use old.reddit.com/r/subredditname
This app has been going to shit but the fact that they shut Apollo down and permabanned me for criticizing the USA government sealed the deal
Good, makes it easier to leave that garbage heap of a website.
"These users are already familiar with Reddit and we've seen that the experience is much better for them in the app. The app offers a more personalized experience and users can more easily find communities that match their interests."
Lmao. The personalization is exactly what I don't want, so fuck off. Also, it's pretty easy to circumvent. I'm sure there's multiple ways, but I just go to old reddit.
They’ll kill old Reddit eventually
And then the site will effectively die
I wouldn’t mind if they did it soon tbf. That way I would find other ways to pass the time at work
That sentiment reminds me of this:
"Here's a bunch of lies. We are going to track the fuck out of your dumb ass."
"I Like Money" ~Reddit's shareholders
enshittification gets shittier
Once it became the place to go to find knowledgeable answers (for free) it had to be destroyed.
After reddit did that mobile app stunt - I created a firefox addon to help reddit refugees move to lemmy:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-deep-lighthouse/
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Well - I guess I'll just skip the occasional visit to their site then. Had no account anymore anyways. gfys spez
you can visit a few posts before getting blocked. good enough for a quick info search.
I'm using a patched infinity but it kind of depends if you ever made an api key or not I think. Morphe I think can patch the official reddit app but I wouldn't want to use it even patched if I'm honest.
Reddit? The porn site?
Yeah. It's a shame, I heard there used to be some great porn material there.
It will well and truly be dead and gone once old.reddit.com stops working. It remains the one good way to view the site, regardless of device.
I keep seeing people saying that Reddit will be dead when this or that happens. I've seen a handful of those things come to pass already and reddit it doing just fine.
Most people don't care. They will continue using it. It will survive.
Reddit is doing fine and Reddit is fine are two different things.
Most users complain consistently about it. That's not a good sign for them.
Their popular posts don't get as many upvotes/comments as they used to. There's definitely a decline in usage.
It's being overrun by bots.
Tons of people are getting bot banned off the platform.
It's not like it's going to just disappear anytime soon. But I've seen this many times before. It's a dying platform. But it'll be a slow death. And by death I mean it'll just become irrelevant compared to other platforms. It'll probably never actually go away. No one I know uses Facebook anymore. It used to be HUGE. We ALL used it. Now it's a ghost town on my feed. I've messaged people and never got a response and run into them at a birthday or something months later and "Oh sorry, I don't check it anymore". It's still there, but may as well not be. That's Reddit's future.
I'm not defending reddit, nor care if reddit dies, but you are saying shit as if it is fact and not providing any sources to back up anything you are saying, and it might as well be reading nonsense from a Facebook MAGA boomer
I've read this exact comment a hundred and one times before you just wrote it. The average end user does not care. We are a vocal minority.
It takes time for the comment to bear out in truth. I’d back it though, it’ll be a slow drip but they’ll all be over here in a few years time.
My theory is that they realize that a significant number of power users on the site are still using old.reddit.com, so they are keeping it going because getting rid of it would turn the website into a ghost town. They will continue to push their app and new website because they can push more advertising through it to the people that are just there to consume.
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Reddit is a shit hole.
More Lemmy signups incoming.
Fuck u/spez
Next, they will stop allowing to register with random email without confirmation
Edit: jut found out they already did it lol. Then next step will be to require phone number for all new accounts
nahh, next is age verification :)
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