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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] 6 points 1 month ago

In practice, it's not so bad. It basically exists so you boost twitter posts without doing the whole screenshot copy-paste rigamarole (and so people can tell it's legit and not just a fake screenshot). Occasionally I'll see somebody boost some Adam Johnson or Jeet Heer tweet on Masto and it is because of bird.makeup. In my experience it does a pretty poor job of keeping in sync though. A lot of accounts only show old tweets.

yeah bridges are pretty neat

I feel like this is different for Twitter and Reddit though. Mirroring twitter kind of makes sense. You don't see anything unless you follow an account (opt in), and you can boost a meaningful tweet and it's not particularly obnoxious. Having hundreds of RedditGPT ass communities floating around making tens of thousands of automated comments and hundreds of thousands of automated votes that we can't even comment in would be obnoxious as hell,

god bless that ever happens lol. never