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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] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

sometimes if I'm on desktop I'll look for shit on reddit, like archived recommendations or niche hobby shit.

Yeah that's basically all I use it for. Lol it's so bad for anything else.