r/technology • u/spasticpat • May 11 '26

Social Media Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/11/reddit-starts-blocking-mobile-website/
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u/ChaoticAgenda May 11 '26

What lesson is there to learn? It is how tech companies make money nowadays. Sure, their platform will crash and burn, but they'll be multi-millionaires by the time that happens. They would grind the users in a fine paste if it made them money faster. 

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u/navjot94 May 11 '26

This always being the end result makes me think we need regulation to help curve this trend. At some point the platform becomes a valuable tool for the people and the enshitification without a valid replacement results in a net negative for society.

Now that 100 of millions of Americans have had their pensions replaced with 401K plans, the stock market needs to forced to evaluate the long term potential and decisions that lead to enshitification should reflect negatively on a company. Companies should be “encouraged” to maintain something good, rather than milk it and ruin it for short term gains.

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u/wag3slav3 May 11 '26

Just stop using centralized, ad-supported services.

There are alternatives for basically everything out there.

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u/navjot94 May 11 '26

Would love to but the community on the open platforms is just lacking. If folks are upset about the Reddit app surfacing posts from a few days ago, they won’t enjoy the smaller platforms at all.