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.
One of the things I love about Hexbear is that it works fantastically under Firefox on Android. It loads fast and it loads with a great layout. It’s obvious that whoever is maintaining the layout code is testing against mobile Firefox, and if anyone reading this is involved in that testing, I really appreciate your work.
I deleted my last Reddit account a few weeks ago. I kept it around that long because there’s a surprisingly useful and active and non-chuddish subreddit for my home city. But I decided to just bite the bullet and stop going there.
It’s slightly less unusable with old.reddit.com which gives you a previous, less enshittified, UI. It is definitely even worse on mobile because it tries really hard to push you onto their shitty app
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.*
It is kinda funny how they are destroying the internet by trying to make money off of it but unlike the real world analog of, say, clear cutting a forest and having wood to sell they still really haven’t figured out how to make money off the destruction. They’re making heaps in the destroying, sure, but there’s nothing left over after they do it to drag to market. It’s all just outside money getting dragged into the process. There’s no gold in them there hills but they’re making money selling the mining equipment.
I think some subs have a karma minimum, or account age minimum, so your post may have been removed by an automod.
Edit: yes it’s buggy as shit though so wouldn’t rule other stuff out either/the automod actions aren’t configured to give an error message of the ‘reason’ for post/comment removal
