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.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    I wish videos weren't the way forward for short tutorials and fixes. This could have been 2 sentences and an image with a red circle. Aaargh

    • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, true. There are so many cases where I have an issue where I literally just need a yes or no answer, or to learn a simple keyboard shortcut in a program, but instead I end up having to watch a whole video. Part of that is search engines being so terrible now.

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        My most recent one was "how to do a fillet in Blender". The answer is select am edge, press ctrl-b to activate the bevel tool, scroll up.

        4 minutes into a six minute video

        • Dessa [she/her]
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          2 months ago

          Take a look at SponsorBlock addon for firefox. It has a "skip to highlight" feature that often gets right to the thing you're looking for. Usually it's whatever was in the clickbait.

          "Skip intro" and "skip filler" are good too, amdnof course, the eponymous Sponsor Blocking function that skips right past all that.

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      2 months ago

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