And apparently (was) almost 84% here in Canada!
I believe it, when I first started using Reddit in 2008 it was almost entirely through desktop. By a few days ago, I had flipped to almost entirely using mobile. My habits changed a lot in 15 years
That makes sense. I’m not sitting in front of my computer all day, but I always have my phone.
Switching my entire mobile usage over to lemmy is easily 90-95% of my social media time.
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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 .
Tablet when you lose the ability to focus up close and need your device arm’s length away. But there are treatments for list accommodation or glasses, so that’s a non problem
Mainly for
- chilling in bed or something, where a laptop is too clumsy
- digital art/drawing/notes (for me, may not apply to others)
We also have like 10-12" tablets now and I’m a small phone fan, so I could see like a 5.5" phone and 11" tablet working well.
laptops are bulky and phones are super convenient because they’re always on and have quick pausing so you can easily pick up and put down. whenever you need to
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.
Now they see it burning
They had dollars while you were on the toilet. Now it’s flushed down the drain.
Not anymore LOL
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
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.
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Not surprised, my personal browsing was almost entirely on mobile devices and 3rd party apps. My work browsing on computer is mainly for IT purposes and not logged in. Some subreddits are far better than the official support communities and they often come up early in google results.
I came across my first instance of finding a solution on Reddit that’s been deleted. I support the user for doing it, but it’s also gonna make life a bit hard as that becomes more common.
Oh, for sure! Reddit was the only thing making Google searches tolerable. I have a feeling it’s only going to get worse before it gets better. Lemmy seems to be growing rapidly though, so with any luck it’ll become the go to site for searches.
In the meantime, have you heard of Archive.org? It’s a giant archive of things on the internet, it’s a phenomenal resource for deleted Reddit posts or comments (I’ve found that old.reddit links tend to work better because of how comments are loaded). Google’s search cache is also handy (especially if no one thought to have the page you need archived, but Google keeps directing you to it). It’s a fair bit faster than Archive.org and usually has what you’re looking for if google directed you the the page, but it can be hit or miss for older content because it’s less of an archive and more the last time the search engine looked at the page. CachedView.Com makes it super easy to check both and has been invaluable the last few weeks.
To me it feels like search, Google etc, got a lot worse in the last few years but if you add “reddit” to your search you get good hits because reddit is like a thread archive where your specific problem has been discussed.
For that reason I will not be able to get rid of reddit completely and for some niche communities on there.
I hope there will be a critical mass on here soon so that this may even be bigger than reddit.
Relevant screenshot for those interested
Huh didn’t expect India to be that high up.
In developing countries it’s far more common to use the internet via mobile.
Elaborate?
I live in India and barely anyone I know uses reddit. So to see it being 3rd on the list is pretty surprising. Although to be fair, with the population we have, even a small percentage is a big number.
Aisa laga hi tha.
I feel we are underestimating the power of NSFW content. Do you think people would pay to look at Ullu, AltBalaji content? Reddit is money free consumption place for them.
Also, I have a different experience. In the past few years, I have seen a lot of people around who have started using Reddit a lot.
US makes up just over 42% of total traffic, of which just over 70% is on mobile. No stats about 1st party / 3rd party apps usage.
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.
I feel that. I just kept hitting it out of habit and it made me sad.
I replaced the reddit app with Connect for Lemmy. Instead of opening it accidentally I get the superior Lemmy experience.
Same, I used a different app on Android but I can’t bring myself to delete it
Surprised it isn’t more.
It’s probably damped by how absolutely dogshit the mobile web and official app versions are.
When I use it on my phone I access with old.reddit.com, as desktop and I’m not sure how those are being counted.
Same here, I am willing to deal with small phone and occasionally misclick. But not willing to deal with the spams from the new format.
But now it’s all in the past, removed all my post and comments yesterday.(keep the account so if post gets restored I can run the delete again.)
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…
Seeing as the vast, vast majority of mobile users are using the official app, it really doesn’t suck that much for them. I wish it wasn’t the case, but it is.
Yup. I work at a computer most of the day but there was no way in hell I was going to use my monitored work computer to browse Reddit.
I just wonder how much of a impact to daily engagement that the lack of third party will affect the company now. The blackouts were never going to be effective but combine that with a downward trend of engagement might be enough to fuck the leadership over.
Still, this seems like a nice place to be even if Reddit is forced to pull it’s head out of its tech bro ass.
Well, at least losing 3PAs solves this problem:
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That’s why Captain Spork is taking all these measures to eliminate the largest 3rd party apps. He wants to force everyone into using the s***** Reddit Mobile app so they can suck all that tasty, valuable user data off your phone. Becoming a millionaire off of the free content and unpaid work of other people wasn’t good enough, now he wants your data so he can sell that too.
