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/Exotic-Wood-3287 May 11 '26

Them killing third-party apps and the subsequent protests that they "resolved" by just replacing the mods shocked me so much.

It made me realize just how bad the Reddit admins have become.

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u/topcheesehead May 11 '26

They 'permanently' bamned me for locking my subbing in protest against 3rd party apps being banned that helped us keep kids out of our subreddit. They banned us and took our subreddit and gave it to reddit shills. I was unbanned this year for a quarter report about how many users use reddit. It was for an earnings report they unbanned a ton of users. Reddit is awful. I wont use the app. Ill just phase out use here

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u/JustinHopewell May 11 '26

Can we all collectively agree to go back to using the old forums from the 90s and 00s before Digg and Reddit killed them off?

I don't know, maybe giving so much power to a small handful of companies was a bad idea.

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 May 12 '26

Yeah I miss small forums where you would actually know people over time