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I hardly use the site and I just tried making an account to ask a question on a hobby subReddit.

The site is plagued by errors, every five seconds "We had a server error"

Any time I tried to post "You post was automatically removed" no explanation. And this isn't a "you posted something against the rules" kind of thing because the posts I was trying to make were the same as the one other people were making on the sub. Half the time even when I tried to comment on a post the "server encounted an error".

Not to mention the site blocks you if you try to use a VPN.

Is it because I'm using mobile Firefox? Who cares? If Lemmy can function fine on a mobile browser, Reddit, one of the most famous and popular social media platforms on the internet can.

So I deleted my account. Why bother having a Reddit account if you can't even use it? I know complaining about Reddit is cringe and overdone, but damn I had no idea how far the site had fallen.

I swear these popular sites are trying to destroy themselves. There is no logical reason they should be this broken. It's almost like these corporations are purposely trying to break the internet.

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The site's been increasingly enshittified, and I think it will become completely unusable if they get around to removing the .old prefix option.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

That will probably drive a bigger exodus than blocking the apps.

[–] Coca_Cola_but_Commie@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What? No way, I love the app. I think my favorite thing about is how if you click on a video it just loads forever, only playing if you back out of the video and then click on it a second time. Highly functional phone app, *reddit.com.*

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Still love the site steering-device