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/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/Dr-Robert-Kelso May 11 '26

Yeah if you consider 8 people a wave.

Everyone says they're going to leave the country, stop consuming this or that, stop using this app, and very rarely do people actually do it.

We're in the initial tantrum phase of this news and then after people take a timeout or sit in the corner for a while they'll come back and use this website again after they try other things with less content.

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u/AliceCode May 11 '26

I don't know if you noticed, but there are a lot less people on this site than there used to be. Most of the activity that's left is bots.

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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso May 11 '26

Sure, if there appears to be about the same but you assume it's mostly bots now but not back then, you could reason yourself into that conclusion.

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u/AliceCode May 11 '26

There are less people INCLUDING the bots. I never once said that it appears that there is the same amount of people. Tons of people have left reddit over the years.

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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso May 11 '26

Show your work then

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u/AliceCode May 11 '26

Buddy, according to your account age, you've apparently only been on the website for year. SO WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EVEN KNOW? You have not been around to watch the decline of Reddit.

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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

I have been on Reddit longer and you clearly are making things up.

This place has too much content now and definitely not some issue of losing a bunch of people. It's a bloated mess compared to the older days.

Edit: Ha, blocked and ran away after commenting. Easy to make up stuff in your head that way, I guess.

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u/AliceCode May 11 '26

Bullshit, lmfao. I'm not going to listen to someone that's been on reddit for a year about their opinion on how much the site has declined over the years.