TIL that 70% of US traffic on reddit is from users on a mobile device.

Back when I used reddit... weird saying I know, I consumed Reddit on my phone, my ipad, and desktop in various combinations, pretty much constantly. Phone/ipad during work, and additional desktop use after. Desktop using Reddit Enhancement Suite (unusable without really), and Apollo for mobile. Spez made going cold turkey on Reddit stupid easy for this heavy user of over 10 years.

It's like going to your favorite donut shop every day for a decade, where your on good terms with the employees, but the boss is shit but you hardly ever see him so it's ok. Then one day, instead of the usual server, Spez shows up, and hands you your favorite donut with a scoop of shit on top, and says that's how they serve them now. Yeah, I'll go somewhere else, thanks.

Relevant screenshot for those interested

Huh didn't expect India to be that high up.
- Elaborate?

I just don’t understand the thought process. They could’ve just shelled out $10M for Apollo and made that the official Reddit app. Then give users the choice of ads or pay for ad free experience.

so basically they’re making a massive gamble that most people will just switch over to their garbage app. Maybe they will, but for sure the power users, big sub moderators & regular posters are all coming to Lemmy. You know, all the people that made Reddit worth visiting.

Personally I think this will be the end of Reddit.

Well, Reddit did shell out money for a third party client. They bought the iOS app Alien Blue in 2014 and turned that into an official app before quickly abandoning it for their client in 2016.
- They bought the app , and then destroyed it.
  They should have learned for their second try, and just bought the app, then not destroyed it.
Some of the communities I was in on Reddit don't seem to want to move. They're ones where users don't go to Reddit, they go to r/whatever, and have usernames matched to the sub.
I doubt Reddit can survive on those sort of users, in those sort of subs, but many of them will stay on Reddit as long as it keeps working
I now only use Reddit for those subs, but rarely since I now only use Reddit thorough it's old web interface with Reddit Enhancement Suite
Realistically Reddit will survive, but it will be a zombie of its former self, kind of similar to how Digg is these days. Let's just hope it kills their valuation and /u/spez has to answer for it.
- I really hope it survives, only because I want to preserve and archive all of it's content. Sure, there's a lot of duplicate data and links to other places, but there's also a lot of unique things there. If it dies before it can be properly archived we would lose most of it, with only internet archive keeping some. That would be sad.
- ...digg still exists?

And 50% of mobile users are on a toilet

I feel like that should be 50% of ALL Reddit users are on a toilet (guilty as charged). So if you have 50% of users on the toilet, and 70% of them on mobile, why that looks like a perfect 5/7 to me.
- I had forgotten about 5/7. Ah, back in the good ol’ days of Reddit.

Exactly why reddit wanted all 3rd party apps gone. All they could see was dollar signs going down the toilet.

I'll sue the desktop site on my phone before I'll use that hot garbage they call an app. It loads faster and works better plus not fucking video ads or that Jesus shit ad they are pushing.

Spez really killed the whole damn site, the greedy little pigboy

really makes you wonder how Swartz would feel about all this. what would he think of the fediverse? lemmy vs reddit?
Here's hoping. Its probably gonna be bussines as usual with their ridicolous culture wars.

I uninstalled boost today, can't wait for Boost for Lemmy. Although Jebora is pretty nice too.

The remaining 30% computer users might be me googling all my IT problems

Reddit is the new Quora or Yahoo! Answers

WAS from users on mobile. Was.

Well, not anymore!

I'm sure it won't affect them to get rid of 3rd party apps....

*TIL that 70% of US traffic on reddit WAS from users on a mobile device

Until July 1 2023 🪦

I could never get use to the desktop layout.

Old.reddit.com with Res is the way. But they seem to be breaking it slowly.
I noticed for example that chat stopped working recently. They really want you to use the new layout.

Woweeee fucking sucks to be Reddit rn lol

Sure hope they don't do anything to anger a large quantity of regular users rather than improve their native mobile apps and incentivize said users to use their official app rather than just kill the more popular third party ones...

Worth mentioning that mobile ≠ app. Many people use Reddit in their browsers. Or the official app for that matter. This article doesn't really give those numbers which I'm sure unfortunately place the third party app users in a smaller minority. Still, I never used a third party app personally and I was still outraged enough at Reddit's behavior to leave. Hopefully more will follow suit.

Aren't they also pushing changes to have mobile browsers redirect to the app with no option for staying in the browser?
- Actually yes. When i began ussing reddit about some years ago i was a lurker on the mobile browser. Then they started pesterin for me to make an account at very much every turn of the corner. Then they started blocking various fucktionalities like visiting subs and blocking nsfw stuff. So i made an account and the subs where still unaccsesible saying something like "this comunity is abailable in the app" an at random too. So i downloaded the app. Used it a couple of months, then learned rif existed and never looked back. Tl;DR: Yes redit has been realistcally unusable on moblie browser for years now. At least for me. Dont know how others manage to use it like that.
- Felt like they were doing that for a while. It's why I went on Boost. I refused to be pushed onto their mobile app.
- You can just enable "desktop site" checkbook in your mobile browser, it would send non-mobile user agent to the server. That's the only way a server can detect a mobile browser.

I just deleted Apollo off my phone, so I guess I'm done with Reddit for the most part.

I haven’t had the heart to delete it yet, but I’m also pretty much done with Reddit.
I checked it out on desktop today. Top 8 hits in 4 of my favorite subs were busted bot reposts. It was a short visit.
- Same, I used a different app on Android but I can't bring myself to delete it

Not anymore LOL

To be honest, I really doubt they felt the exodus. Most people don't care what Reddit is doing and /r/videos alone had more users than entire Lemmy network. I wish they felt it. I refuse to open Reddit now. They could have had a different, more user friendly approach, but no... quick and easy way to earn money.
I mean I think I saw a chart before the change and over 50% of people use the official app. So it's less then I had thought.
- Depressing, but I'm also excited for new things here

That’s gonna drop. Right?

Probably not by too much, realistically a lot of people are going to switch to the official app
- I'm not going to switch to the official app. If anything thing, I'll use Firefox with UBO.

I will not sit at desk to read . Smartphone are just way better for this kind of task . Most people access the internet with a smartphone ,not a PC tower.

What about a laptop or tablet? I usually only use my phone when I'm on the go or in a difficult situation.
- once you have a a phone , why pay 300$ for a tablet ? I was thinking to buy a tablet because I spend an outrageous amount of time reading stuff on the internet . I looked at low-end tablet and the screen quality was terrible . I look at a S7 FE tablet ,700$, way better , but should I spend 700$ for 3 inch bigger screen ? Tablet on the toilet? I don't think so. Tablet in my shower shelves , no. Tablet in my bed,maybe , but just while sitting ... What about listening to podcasts ... My phone do it and fit in my pocket , my bicycle , my car and my jogging fanny bag. So the tablet would be used only while I'm the couch or laying in my bed... but at this point I have a laptop . I have a 42 inch tv connected to my pc tower ,and a laptop that I barely use. Since I'm sitting all day long at my job. I prefer to lay down on my sofa at night ,not sit again behind a monitor on an office chair .

LMAO