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.
Sometimes I think Lemmy’s existing UI is a hot mess and feel bad about my inability to keep up with fixing all the issues. Hearing how much of a dumpster fire Reddit has become makes me feel much better about myself.
You don’t need it, Reddit doesn’t even have
If you want to doom scroll for over like 45 minutes, you still have to reddit if you don’t want the content to run dry. Current lems biggest weakness is not enough users/contributors. Keeps getting better. Just slowly. Not like the migration slam from Digg to Reddit was.
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 was really only using it with a stripped down third party app, because the site was such a turd on mobile. even the old.reddit interface was too clunky.
when they cut off API access, that was it for me. I heard about the FOSS alternative that would allow third party apps and found a chill, minimalist one and here I am. overwrote all my posts and then nuked my account.
sometimes if I’m on desktop I’ll look for shit on reddit, like archived recommendations or niche hobby shit. I use the old.reddit interface for that, but I find it to be unusable for casual scrolling or interaction. that’s not even getting into how fucked it is as an astroturfed content aggregator.
made me realize that I need to convert all my casual comms to foss shit eventually to avoid all the eventual enshitification.
