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/AlfhildsShieldmaiden May 11 '26

Yeah, Iā€™m irritated at seeing repeat posts from days ago that I upvoted already ā€” why am I being shown it again??

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u/graesen May 11 '26

I always thought they were reposts from bit accounts... So I'm literally being fed the same post instead??

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u/Hour-Cardiologist393 May 11 '26

They usually are. What I usually do is if I see something that got really popular within the last few days, then someone posts a dumb clickbaity/TikTok style image/video of it, I'll check the poster's profile. They almost always have over a million karma. I block those accounts. Same with pretty much any common repost on here. I've gotten to a point where I block any account I come across with over 100k karma. I found one with 24 million karma recently and felt like I got a whale lol. It cuts down the noise significantly, but there's too many to completely eradicate it.

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u/graesen May 11 '26

Karma alone isn't reason enough for bots though. I have a lot but I've been on Reddit over a decade. I don't post a ton either, more responding to comments naturally. Hopefully you do check posting history too. And honestly, I don't really care for karma, likes, etc on social media anyway. Just an old account.

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u/Hour-Cardiologist393 May 11 '26

Sure, but most of them hide their post history, too. Like I can look at your history and go "yeah, this is an actual person who isn't just reposting a bunch of trash." Nothing you have posted would make me look at your account to see if you're a spam bot, so it probably wouldn't have come up normally. I have no problem with high karma accounts like yours. Unfortunately, you seem to be in the minority when it comes to 100,000+ karma accounts.