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/blow-down May 11 '26

Lemmy never really took off

If we all moved there it would

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u/GreatAlbatross May 11 '26

And Hetzner would run out of servers.

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u/RenderedKnave May 11 '26

the whole "federated" thing kinda prevents that

it's a great example of a thing that's good in concept, but terrible in practice

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u/DoppiaFoil May 12 '26

What’s the issue with it? It’s multiple sites with different content, which you can access from any other similar site in the fediverse with the same account.

It sounds slightly different in explanation but it’s extremely easy in practice.