Social network Reddit recently began blocking mobile visitors to its website while pushing them to download the official Reddit app, and it's fair to say that the move is not going down well with users. If you visit reddit.com on your iPhone today, you may see a new popup that can't be dismissed, asking you to "get the app to keep using Reddit".
  • diplomatic_immunity@lemmy.zipEnglish
    34·
    5 hours ago

    I hate reddit. They blocked all of my accounts for no reason. And they’re so vague explaining why, and when I tried to appeal, the whole site crashed. Literally joined Lemmy yesterday.

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      Lol I quit reddit a couple of years ago when they did the API thing. Recently went on there cos I was googling some game stuff that led me there - and I found that the account that was logged in had been banned. I hadn’t commented or voted out even really been there for 2 years and somewhere in that time I earned a ban, somehow. Gotta laugh.

    • Abyssian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 hours ago

      I used Reddit since near it’s start, never banned until recently. Apparently saying that public officials who betray their country and the will of the people should be burned at the stake is me making threats. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

    • treesartlife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      I used reddit for about 4 years. I couldn’t stand it anymore, the bots, the bans for no proper reason. A lot of people recommended Lemmy, but I was reluctant to start using it at first. Glad I finally made it here

    • borQue@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      5 hours ago

      Welcome. Yeah Reddit is an evil forum. Blocked me too when I was doing an ANTI racist statement. Apparently the moderhater thought I was racist, block for life, appeal never helped. I think they cannot read properly.

      • dltk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        5 hours ago

        16 year old reddit account. I got a 3 day suspension for “harassment” for telling the mods of a joe rogan sub that their sub is full of “losers”. I was completely censoring myself by being so soft in my critique. Evidently right wing snowflakes are big fans of cancel culture. Deleted the app & here I am!

        • brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 hours ago

          Guess we are all here. I also had a 10+ year account and the last few months started getting bans for relatively tame views, most of them taken out of context and then I finally got perma banned.

          Scrubbed and deleted all my comments with a Firefox extension and deleted my account. If many of us very active users do this, I believe it can make a dent in their content.

          • dltk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            I need to learn more about what’s OK on federated platforms like lemmy, but Im interested in creating a mirror bot that clones all the posts on Reddit. Just a one-way mirror to help boost content depth. Maybe it would be best to create a dedicated lemmy server for that purpose.

      • diplomatic_immunity@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        Thank you! That’s crazy man. Man i hate it so much, you can get banned for literally anything, with no solid reason and explanation. It really is evil. Built a niche news subreddit from the ground up and it was doing good, with about 100 members in 2-3 months. Lost it. I was moderating another bigger subreddit aswell, made it grow and better, all for nothing.