I was one of the people who deleted their reddit account when 3rd party apps were being pressured out.

I am just wondering how the official app is now. I visit a page that has no lemmy alternative every now and then.

I have no plans to post, upvote or downvote. I just want an easy way to see a couple of pages sometimes. Currently doing this in a mobile browser, requiring I not wipe history. Is there a better way to do this?

  • Yeahigotskills2@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    The official app is still shit, the mods are mostly absolute zealots, and the Admin uses so many AI tracking tools that if you get banned from a sub for some minor issue, you can soon find yourself get banned from the site forever. Which is why i’m here :-)

    I was on it for about 13 years, got banned from AskUK for using ChatGPT as a spell checker, then got permanently banned from reddit for using a throwaway account, which was flagged as ban evasion.

    • SnowMeowXP@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      24 hours ago

      That’s horrible! In the past, I got severely downvoted for asking about headsets on a group about lossless audio or something. Getting banned for what you described is unreasonable.

      • Yeahigotskills2@lemmy.ml
        1·
        11 hours ago

        I was a bit annoyed for a while. I made it worse for myself by trying to actually evade my ban using a VPN etc, but I hadn’t appreciated how sophisticated they are these days and once you’re banned you’re banned for life.

        It’s odd to me, as when I first started using it throwaway accounts were common and it was a fun place to an anonymously comment on stuff. I might try and rejoin when I next upgrade my phone, but I understand they track your Google account and various other identifiers so maybe it’s to call it a day.