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I gave up on it years ago when they killed off 3rd party clients, I have to say it doesn't seem like I've been missing much. The rare occasion I do need to see something on it, it's just full of deleted accounts and comments. I do also love how VPNs get blocked but accessing it over tor is allowed (genuinely I think allowing access over tor is great, but it seems so antithetical to everything else they've done recently)

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I find it amazing how they killed off 3rd party clients many years ago, yet their first party mobile client is still garbage.

It is nowhere near as good as the third party apps that were made by a single individual developer.

It goes to show how a presumably large budget and sizable team is outdone by a single talented individual outside of the constraints of an enterprise environment.

Or maybe Reddit is particularly incompetent. I occasionally use their website on mobile, and if anything it has been getting worse.

That Reddit sells our content and does a terrible job at moderation, which they largely outsource to us as unpaid labor, is just the cherry on top.

RIP Apollo…

I doubt Reddit killed the third-party apps to improve its mobile experience. They were probably just trying to cash in on the AI hype.

Reddit did reliably block Tor with 429 but no longer does.

I suspect they’re not blocking tor to maintain both an image of being some kind of safe haven for democracy warriors and because tor is monitored by the 5+1 eyes it’s also a conduit for intel and asset development among those kids who think they’re democracy warriors or something.

You can't login via tor anymore in my experience

>I gave up on it years ago when they killed off 3rd party clients

Revanced.

VPNs get blocked? Your VPS needs an ip update.

VPN blocking is a thing now. It's always a game of whackamole, but the whacker is getting a lot better lately thanks to states and countries having new laws against accessing age restricted content.

yeah, residential proxies are the future.

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