I know its easier than ever to dunk on how terrible reddit has gotten, but honestly? What is this? How is is safer to deliver this content to kids viewing reddit on a tablet or PC or in the app? Why even create the bs excuse?

They could just have easily told the truth an displayed a message like “Content is limited. Open in the app to view.” It’s still a jerk move, but at a minimum its honest.

  • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Tons of comments and not one answering OP’s question. I would be interesting in knowing the official reasoning too, but nobody here is answering the question.

    • letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Maybe nobody actually knows the answer, except probably Reddit devs and the managers that made them push those changes out, neither of which will be at liberty to say.

      We can all speculate - they’re doing something for the sake of being seen to be doing something instead of actually blocking the content; they don’t want to block the content selectively because that means KYC and lots of people get upset about that sort of thing, etc etc.

  • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    You think that’s bad? They have four of these “promo” dialogs to push users to the Reddit spyware app.

    1. Unreviewed community (the one you’re seeing).
    2. NSFW content.
    3. Trending content (yes, you read that right).
    4. Special events (like r/place).

    Fuck Spez.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I’m trans and have surgery coming up so I’m often trying to research a lot of stuff related to that. Seems half the useful info out there is on Reddit and I have to get around the fucking NSFW wall all the time. I’m so frustrated that so much of that information got tied up there and in discord channels