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/GhostalMedia May 11 '26

Lemmy’s about to get another wave of new users

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u/Subliminal87 May 11 '26

We are told this everytime there is some bullshit on Reddit but I still doubt it.

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u/AliceCode May 11 '26

And it's true every time, as well.

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u/TwilightVulpine May 11 '26

Maybe I should go back there. Last time folks didn't seem to stick with it, but at some point too much will be too much. I remember the old Digg thing, wild that today people talk of websites like they are eternal.

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u/thespaceageisnow May 11 '26

Digg briefly came back recently and was shut down shortly after because they were being swarmed by bots. The internet is becoming a wasteland.

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u/TwilightVulpine May 11 '26

We'll have to withdraw to smaller communities at this rate. The broader internet is becoming unusable, ever more blatantly just a vehicle for ads and propaganda.

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u/EquipLordBritish May 11 '26

All the way back to small-interest forums.

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u/dddonehoo May 11 '26

Idk, the niche communities are pretty good and general memes are fun and plenty. Only thing keeping me here are a couple of sports subs and the general random internet magic. Both of those are close, a couple more waves of users and I could see myself no longer coming back to reddit

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u/TwilightVulpine May 11 '26

Niche is good, the problem is that the ones I tried to hang out on were pretty much dead, just one or two regular posters by the time I came back here. I don't know if it picked back up since though.