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How does anyone even use Reddit? Why is the site so broken? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I help mod a subreddit that has a karma minimum, but it's not uncommon that posts are just randomly auto removed for no good reason other than reddit having a brain fart. It's annoying as fuck.