It will well and truly be dead and gone once old.reddit.com stops working. It remains the one good way to view the site, regardless of device.
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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My theory is that they realize that a significant number of power users on the site are still using old.reddit.com, so they are keeping it going because getting rid of it would turn the website into a ghost town. They will continue to push their app and new website because they can push more advertising through it to the people that are just there to consume.
You think there are still redditors around?
I think it's just troll farms and bots. Every once in a while someone stumbles into the site and says something. THEN there is a whirlwind of answers/speculations/theories/lies.
A.I is running the show. If I use a certain word or phrase I get filtered. If I say the exact same thing without those "catch phrases" then I see a few votes.
I treat the site as a test site for trying language that gets PAST the trolls.
One thing I've noticed lurking on AITA is that there's suddenly more people casually talking about being religious. Not like overtly preaching like you'd see in the past, but more people referencing going to church or doing things for religious reasons.
It just seemed out of place and weird. Like the tone of that part of the internet suddenly changed. It's still more liberal than conservative, though that conflict seems to be mostly just not present, perhaps in part because of their rule against political topics, though even when some slip through, it does seem to lean more liberal or even progressive than conservative. Like plenty of abortion support, no broad support for tribal or hierarchical judgements. But it suddenly seems more religious. Christian, specifically.
While church attendance is NOW declining rapidly?
I suspect a Christian troll farm at work here. They NEED to indoctrinate at an early age to survive.
They can't use FACTS, their bible doesn't have any good ones.
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I keep seeing people saying that Reddit will be dead when this or that happens. I've seen a handful of those things come to pass already and reddit it doing just fine.
Most people don't care. They will continue using it. It will survive.
Reddit is doing fine and Reddit is fine are two different things.
Most users complain consistently about it. That's not a good sign for them.
Their popular posts don't get as many upvotes/comments as they used to. There's definitely a decline in usage.
It's being overrun by bots.
Tons of people are getting bot banned off the platform.
It's not like it's going to just disappear anytime soon. But I've seen this many times before. It's a dying platform. But it'll be a slow death. And by death I mean it'll just become irrelevant compared to other platforms. It'll probably never actually go away. No one I know uses Facebook anymore. It used to be HUGE. We ALL used it. Now it's a ghost town on my feed. I've messaged people and never got a response and run into them at a birthday or something months later and "Oh sorry, I don't check it anymore". It's still there, but may as well not be. That's Reddit's future.
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I will not install their app. Period.
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Maybe its too on the nose to say so on Lemmy, but fuck Reddit right in the earhole. Their pearl-clutching, risk-averse, pro-corporate moderation-bot and tattle-tale system was the last straw.
You forgot to mention their being the cuckold of Israel, or perhaps the Gimp. Fuck Reddit better dead than Reddit is a username says on here.
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"These users are already familiar with Reddit and we've seen that the experience is much better for them in the app. The app offers a more personalized experience and users can more easily find communities that match their interests."
Lmao. The personalization is exactly what I don't want, so fuck off. Also, it's pretty easy to circumvent. I'm sure there's multiple ways, but I just go to old reddit.
"Here's a bunch of lies. We are going to track the fuck out of your dumb ass."
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Reddit is a shit hole.
I hate reddit. They blocked all of my accounts for no reason. And they're so vague explaining why, and when I tried to appeal, the whole site crashed. Literally joined Lemmy yesterday.
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Fuck u/spez
Good.
The more of this they do, the more people move to federated sites.
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I expect another migration from reddit to lemmy. I'm not saying we are going to explode, but expect some new people in the next few weeks.
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Garbage takes itself out, lol.
Welcome Reddit refugees! (Dumb assholes, bots and shills notwithstanding.)
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If you're on Firefox, download a user agent plug in and change your your browser to say it's a tablet or windows pc. Problem solved. I already do this when their page locking pop-up started bothering me lol
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Next, they will stop allowing to register with random email without confirmation
Edit: jut found out they already did it lol. Then next step will be to require phone number for all new accounts
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They're gonna shut down old reddit or make it a premium feature aren't they?
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I just got banned for saying that I look forward to watching leopards eat James Comey's face. They took it as a literal call for violence. The only thing that doesn't make it perfect is that it wasn't on r/leopardsatemyface.
I would say reddit has fully gone to shit, but somehow I think it still has a ways lower to sink.
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It's just websites. I'm not downloading your shitty app to look at your website. That's what a browser is for.
They never learn.
learn what? they're more successful than they've ever been. Their profit is up, their users are up. What exactly do they need to learn? Yes, you and I and most people reading this comment are pissed off at them and left their platform. But 99% of people didn't bother. This will annoy people but ultimately it won't drive users away in any substantial numbers. They do it because they know they can and most people will do what they're told and get the app instead. You say that as if you expect them to be shooting themselves in the foot, but people being annoyed at them does not reduce their profitability.
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If you paste this into your my filters tab on Ublock Origin, it'll block the element blocking you from the page, but yes that's why I made a Lemmy account, because fuck reddit.
reddit.com#?##app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-seo:remove() reddit.com#%#//scriptlet('prevent-addEventListener', 'touchmove', 'preventDefault') reddit.com#%#//scriptlet('remove-class', 'rpl-scroll-lock|scroll-is-blocked', 'html, body', 'asap stay') reddit.com#$#html, body, shreddit-app { overflow-y: scroll !important; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch !important; touch-action: pan-y !important; overscroll-behavior: auto !important; }
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Noticed that a couple weeks ago. Does it for Duckduckgo and Firefox but not for Chrome.
About the same time they killed r/All and sorting by top/hour.
I float back and forth between reddit and lemme since the mass exodus but this is probably going to be the end of reddit for me.
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More Lemmy signups incoming.
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