Firefox mobile with uBlock origin is a fucking godsend, the mobile web is nigh unusable without it because of ads.

Yeah, Reddit has 0 interest in being Reddit anymore. They want to be tiktok/Instagram (that’s why the video player is fucking trash, they want it to look like tiktok). The thing I don’t understand is those apps are already much larger than Reddit, why would people from those apps ever come to Reddit? And why would you just completely abandon your loyal userbase?

Very well said. This will eventually blow over, but for a lot of moderators and well known submitters, it’s already too late. This will cause a death spiral where the quality of posts and moderation is way less because of said users leaving, causing more people to leave and there’s less total users/income, causing them to make more decisions designed to placate VCs/investors (killing old Reddit/nsfw), causing more people to leave, etc.

Not really, the equivalent is communities. Which can be on any server they want. So for example there’s [email protected] and [email protected]. the hope is eventually people gravitate towards one and others are discouraged from being made (so as to not split the community) unless there’s some drama or need to have two.