• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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    We’re expecting a giant influx of users when the popular workaround, old.reddit.com (perhaps with RES to make it less outdated), inevitably gets shut down.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!

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      I joined lemmy just over a year ago when reddit killed its API. I hoped that my favorite subreddit would come here too but it didn’t so I wandered back to reddit. I was clinging to old.reddit.com and would probably have stayed around for as long as that lasted. But recently they began requiring email addresses. That was too much and here I am.

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            How are you seeing that an email is required? Is it when you try to post something? My account is banned so I just us it to lurk but I can still log in.

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              My account is banned. I can still log in and lurk, but not post, upvote, etc. And, as I already said: When I log in to the main site, it says “account permanently banned”. When I log in to old reddit, it says “provide an email to reactivate your account”.

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                I didn’t see where you already said that. Weird though that it happens to you and not me. Seems like we’re doing the same things otherwise. I did recently have an issue where my adblock was preventing me from logging in on firefox but it was just saying my username/password were invalid. If you have that going maybe try turning it off to log in and see what happens.

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                  Whoopsies! I posted that to a similar conversation in a completely different thread, I got confused. My apologies. I don’t know what you mean when you say that it is happening to me but not to you. You say that your account is banned and that you can only lurk - sounds exactly the same as my experience. Nothing to do with adblock as I have confirmed the problem on multiple platforms.

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    I hate the fact that reddit has so much valuable data in it, like thousands of extremely niche subreddits and answers to your questions.

    I wish someone could just mirror it all

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    Over the last year I think I’ve dropped in about six times out of sheer habit, and each time I am driven away by the undeniable force of asshole design.

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    That’s only on mobile browser mode. Open your browser settings and select Desktop site and you won’t see that modal anymore.

    Still an asshole design, though.

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      the “new” design is pretty much unusable on desktop too, imo. IF I absolutely must visit reddit, old.reddit it is.

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      On mobile you can use RedReader. When reddit revoked access to its API, it made an exception for RedReader, because that app supports certain accessibility features which are “not yet” (i.e. never will be) supported by the official reddit app. So if you still want to access reddit on mobile, use RedReader, it has no ads and is much less irritating than the official reddit app.

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        I think they made an exception because it’s so awful that no one would ever want to use it…

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          😂 I could understand why some people feel that way.

          I like it because it does not have any ads, and because it’s very easy to switch between accounts. You can even post from one account while logged in to another.

          But that is the only reddit mobile app that I ever used. I never even downloaded the official one, nor did I try any of the other third party ones that got blocked. I could believe that some of them were much better than RedReader.

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    I just posted to Reddit about my Twystlock gaming accessory release. Something free for everyone.

    Most subreddits don’t allow cross-posting, so I made 5 posts in total. 1 was taken down by mods. 3 were taken down by Reddit. Only r/Handhelds survived.

    I don’t use Reddit anymore in day to day, but I’ve had releases like Winapps sit at the top of r/Linux for days and never had these issues until more recently. Garbage.

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      Unfortunately there’s still a ton of valuable and interesting information submitted to that site and nowhere else.

      Fortunately there is Stealth for Reddit.

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    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.

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      I’m checking it out by your recommendation. I do post sometimes so I use Dystopia for that but oh it’s a horrendous UI. I suppose that’s why Spaz allowed it - and because it’s supposed to be for visually impaired.

      Edit: doesn’t seem to offer anything substantial beyond Dystopia so I’m fine with Dystopia.

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        I literally said it’s for people who don’t interact with the site. Of course dystopia is more substantial. Lol

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          Oh yeah, that wasn’t a criticism sorry I was merely indicating that for me, it’s just not worth using both. Thank you for the info though, I’m sure you helped some other people who could benefit from that. :-)

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    Reddit, Twitter. I don’t understand why they are putting so much effort into making sure that people can’t use them comfortably. I always thought there should be as few barriers for the user as possible, otherwise they might drop out. Are these platforms more concerned about selling data for LLMs now?

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    If you absolutely have to read something from reddit and it throws this, just switch to the desktop site instead of mobile.

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      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.

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        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.

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    Yup. They got so desperate for money they first screwed developers with the API change and now they’re going to push this more and more. My expectation is they’re going to slowly move toward forcing usage of the official app or absolutely nothing else.

    Spaz is desperate for ad money. I’m only in a few subs that have no Lemmy equivalent yet, but otherwise I’ve ditched reddit like the steaming pile of shit that it’s become.

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      My expectation is they’re going to slowly move toward forcing usage of the official app or absolutely nothing else.

      Google just paid them many millions of dollars to ensure that won’t happen.

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    It’s funny because Ukrainian war videos are put into the main feed, and you can watch the videos. But when you click the title to read the comments it asks you to login for sensitive content.

    It’s such a shitty, buggy and slow website.

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      Try clicking the comment number link, not the title link. I don’t understand the difference, but it sometimes it changes things.