If you get this stupid in-your-face nagware banner in your desktop browser every 30 seconds, add these lines to your uBlock Origin filters:

! 2026-11-11 Hide the Reddit App nagware banner  
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! 2026-11-11 Remove scroll-lock classes dynamically  
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! 2026-11-11 Force scroll bars back  
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Reddit's enshittification is proceeding apace...

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[–] [S] 8 points 16 hours ago* (1 child)

I would gladly do that, but there is one subreddit I still patronize infrequently (r/amputee) and for a simple reason: I recreated an identical community here on Lemmy but it has 28 subscribers and I've been pretty much keeping the lights on by myself for the past 3 years. r/amputee on the other hand is active and has 16k subscribers.

If you go to r/amputee, people complain about Reddit. But here's the thing: people are there, so everyone else who has the same problem goes there too, and the vicious circle continues.

That's the social media platform lock-in Cory Doctorow describes in his explanation of what enshittification is: the platform is terrible and everybody wants to leave, but nobody does because nobody else does either, and people stick around because the other people they want to interact with are there too. It takes the platform becoming so exceedingly nasty that everybody leaves at once to break the circle. But Reddit, crap though it is, isn't there yet.

So yes, I maintain a minimal presence on Reddit's r/amputee, while I keep Lemmy's c/amputee going, until such time as Reddit's amputees are fed up and look for an alternative, and they'll hopefully find c/amputee welcoming enough and familiar enough that they won't experience too much trouble switching.

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago

    I lost all subs I was a part of with no internet recourse on fediverse and beyond.

    I just had to choose/ deal with the loss of those communities while working to foster new ones elsewhere that aren't controlled by single points of failure.

    with time and persistence, the new communities will flow.

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