Web browsers were designed by naive, pre surveillance capitalism developers
Profile/settings icon/button is rendered half way or fully out of the page.
Chat feature is completely unusable
Social media almost always skews older as it ages, beyond the natural pace of time.
AOL became mostly seniors as did Facebook and Yahoo. Reddit has not only shaken off most of the aging legacy users but had also captured a new generation of effectively children.
I personally don't like what they've done but it's worked.
The younger users view it as an app with a website as opposed to a website with an app
I personally can't stand apps that stop me from zooming in on things.
My sister complains about the information density of old Reddit being too high but that's exactly what I like about it!
I miss Apollo.
They’re this close to just 100% shutting down the mobile web version.
Basically if you intend it to do something more substantive than comment a series of emojis, they have a bunch of bugs that block you.
I'm guessing someone has made the calculation that being terrible in these ways are more profitable.
Maybe people doom scroll more if the content is vapid?
I'd love to see the user stories. "Brenda is a 52 year old professional who likes commenting "Happy Birthday" to AI generated images of people with cakes. She loves multilevel marketing and buying stuff on Temu. Her husband Greg, reposts memes programmatically generated by content farms using LLMs and topic trackers"