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".
      • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        6 days ago

        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.

  • deathbird@mander.xyzEnglish
    22·
    6 days ago

    It’s just websites. I’m not downloading your shitty app to look at your website. That’s what a browser is for.

  • sevenoverthree@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    6 days ago

    I just got banned for saying that I look forward to watching leopards eat James Comey’s face. They took it as a literal call for violence. The only thing that doesn’t make it perfect is that it wasn’t on r/leopardsatemyface.

    I would say reddit has fully gone to shit, but somehow I think it still has a ways lower to sink.

  • user_aready_exists@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    6 days ago

    If you paste this into your my filters tab on Ublock Origin, it’ll block the element blocking you from the page, but yes that’s why I made a Lemmy account, because fuck reddit.

    reddit.com#?##app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-seo:remove() reddit.com#%#//scriptlet(‘prevent-addEventListener’, ‘touchmove’, ‘preventDefault’) reddit.com#%#//scriptlet(‘remove-class’, ‘rpl-scroll-lock|scroll-is-blocked’, ‘html, body’, ‘asap stay’) reddit.com#$#html, body, shreddit-app { overflow-y: scroll !important; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch !important; touch-action: pan-y !important; overscroll-behavior: auto !important; }

  • diplomatic_immunity@lemmy.zipEnglish
    41·
    6 days 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.

    • borQue@lemmy.zipEnglish
      13·
      6 days 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·
        6 days 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·
          6 days 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.

      • diplomatic_immunity@lemmy.zipEnglish
        31·
        6 days 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.

    • Abyssian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 days 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.

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 days 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.

    • treesartlife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days 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

  • BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    6 days ago

    Reddit really sucks. Once you get one temporary ban, the automated system really fucks you at any point in the future.

  • ArchsageRamases@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    6 days ago

    Any websight pushing stuff like this I refuse to use. I use a degoogled phone so many apps don’t work and I use the web browser.

    • oldwoodenship@lemmus.orgEnglish
      41·
      7 days ago

      I left when my last account got banned because I suggested a way for dealing with billionaires may or may not include removing their head from the rest of their body.

  • suburbanl3g3nd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    7 days ago

    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

    • cRazi_man@europe.pubEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      If you’re on Android then use the Nora app from F-droid.

      If you’ve got a home server then self-host Redlib. I run this through Gluetun VPN and it has the added benefit of not needing age verification (UK) and imgur working properly and needs no account for making a list of subscribed feeds.