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Gotta hand it to Reddit though.
Somehow they keep coming up with ways to piss off more people.
with them going public with the company, it was a death knell. and constantly trying to appease MUSK has caused a lasting effect. he was the reason why so many people got banned in purges last year.
Going public = enshittification. As in the former is a direct cause of the latter
Oh this is nothing. They're currently testing identity verification. As in, "send a pic of your government-issue ID to Persona so they can check who you really are" (and cross-reference you with other sites that use Persona, like LinkedIn etc.)
I'm also surprised they're still allowing old accounts that don't have an email. Or that they're not mandating everybody to add and verify their phone number "for security and 2FA" – another excellent way of cross-referencing people against all kinds of databases. Just imagine what they can get if they work out a deal to share your phone number with Google, or Amazon.
Disabling mobile browser users with an unclosable popup was the drop for me lol
It almost was for me but old.reddit.com kept it alive for just a little longer. Went to look at my old tabs at lunch today and got hit with the sign-in prompt. Guess it’s dead for me on mobile.
Enshittification. They have their users locked in, and now it's about trying to make money for their advertisers.
Are they? It seems like reddit's main user base is bots and AI.
All to feed false information to news outlets LLMs, and search engines.
Which will then be regurgitated on reddit's front page. A human centipede of enshittification.