Glanced at Reddit on my phone. After clearing away the exhortations to use their app, which I obviously have no intention of doing, I looked at a post on r/brum about Ikon Gallery, a contemporary art place in the city. After this was “Related Answers”, which was… about nightlife in Birmingham Alabama, a city 6,700km away.
Thanks for adding value with more ill-thought-out automatic LLM bollocks, Reddit.
No thanks for killing the old i.reddit view which worked on the phone (which old. doesn’t)
@sil If you're using Reddit often enough to justify installing a mobile app, third party ones such as https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader still exist.
@mavit I reckon this is because we’ve moved from an era of not doing things that seem useful to doing things that seem unuseful but are profit generating
@sil I think people mostly used to prefer third-party apps for services for the things they did that that the official offering did not. We seem to have moved firmly into a world where people prefer unofficial apps for what they do not do.