I hardly use the site and I just tried making an account to ask a question on a hobby subReddit.
The site is plagued by errors, every five seconds "We had a server error"
Any time I tried to post "You post was automatically removed" no explanation. And this isn't a "you posted something against the rules" kind of thing because the posts I was trying to make were the same as the one other people were making on the sub. Half the time even when I tried to comment on a post the "server encounted an error".
Not to mention the site blocks you if you try to use a VPN.
Is it because I'm using mobile Firefox? Who cares? If Lemmy can function fine on a mobile browser, Reddit, one of the most famous and popular social media platforms on the internet can.
So I deleted my account. Why bother having a Reddit account if you can't even use it? I know complaining about Reddit is cringe and overdone, but damn I had no idea how far the site had fallen.
I swear these popular sites are trying to destroy themselves. There is no logical reason they should be this broken. It's almost like these corporations are purposely trying to break the internet.
It is kinda funny how they are destroying the internet by trying to make money off of it but unlike the real world analog of, say, clear cutting a forest and having wood to sell they still really haven't figured out how to make money off the destruction. They're making heaps in the destroying, sure, but there's nothing left over after they do it to drag to market. It's all just outside money getting dragged into the process. There's no gold in them there hills but they're making money selling the mining equipment.
Colonial extraction but against our own business model