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In a way I’m thankful that Reddit has made using their site so inhospitable to mobile browsers. I’ve simply stopped using it. Though it seems they’ve at least b
by lethologica 3y ago
In a way I’m thankful that Reddit has made using their site so inhospitable to mobile browsers. I’ve simply stopped using it. Though it seems they’ve at least brought back old.reddit.com but i.reddit.com still seems to redirect to the incredibly unusable www.reddit.com on mobile.
Now, in its place, I load up a .epub book in the iOS Books app and set it to continuous scroll mode. This way I’m getting the dopamine hit from the continuous scrolling AND I’m actually reading something worth my time, energy, and effort rather than outrage bait, astroturfing posts, or karma farm threads.
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- CatWChainsaw 3y agoPractically the same, except books on a tablet instead.
- dbtc 3y agoI've been using the space bar more and more in the browser (and less (and c-f/c-v in vi/emacs)), and am beginning to find it annoying when I have to scroll any other way. I wish mobile safari's reader mode had a paged option like the books app.
- local_crmdgeon 3y ago>astroturfing I guarantee you Reddit makes most of it's money from astroturfing. It's why they'll never go public, they don't want to open their books. You can't look at r/Politics, WPT, etc and tell me those posters are human.
- dredmorbius 3y agoBooks and articles on an e-book reader is my preference as well. Reddit is increasingly poor as either an aggregator or discussion site. Longer bit in a recent response to a thread about Reddit's increasing enshittification: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35753967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35753967>