[jasode]

>I've mentioned it before, but Reddit is so incredibly, unbelievably user-hostile nowadays that I don't understand why people use it.

If that's not a rhetorical question, are the "people" in your question about mainstream users or people like you?

I consider myself a "mainstream user" and have been using it since the beginning. I don't see that reddit is unbelievably user hostile nowadays. (I do acknowledge that it's annoying that I have to type "old.reddit.com" instead of letting it default to "www.reddit.com" to get the previous thread layout back.)

To describe my usage: I only go to the reddit front page to click on a few stories for that quick dopamine hit and that's it. I don't have a login. I don't participate in any subreddits or bother customizing my front page.

I'm guessing my usage pattern is similar to 90% of the lurkers on reddit.

>They no longer let people view nsfw boards without logging in

I just tried some random nsfw reddits and they don't require login. Just a "are you sure?" confirmation prompt.

[sbmthakur]

i.reddit.com works like a charm for those who are on mobile and don't like the new Reddit. But NSFW sites cannot be viewed without login. They can be viewed with old.reddit.com, however.

[Steko]

Apollo still has some pain points but it’s easily my favorite iOS app.

[TheAdamAndChe]

>are the "people" in your question about mainstream users or people like you?

I hold very mainstream, socially conservative but fiscally liberal opinions. My viewpoints aren't welcome there.

> I just tried some random nsfw reddits and they don't require login. Just a "are you sure?" confirmation prompt.

My IP must be flagged for an A/B test, because I can't view some nsfw subreddits without logging in.

Edit: I hate doing this, but could someone explain the downvotes? I just want to understand how I'm wrong here.

[drchopchop]

Huh? "very mainstream, socially conservative but fiscally liberal opinions" - that is not "mainstream" in most parts of the world, including America.

[TheAdamAndChe]

The voting records in USA disagree with you.

To be clear, I have no trouble discussing the fiscally liberal portion of my viewpoints.

I don't want this to get derailed into liberal-vs-conservative views. My main point is that commonly held beliefs are suppressed on Reddit, I suspect for advertising.

[mikeyjk]

There are subreddits for nearly every demographic though - are you referring to being down voted in a popular / high subscriber subreddit?

[TheAdamAndChe]

No, I'm talking about the rules of the site and the way those rules are applied affecting the culture and overton window of the site overall. Discrimination against white people isn't disallowed, but discrimination against other races is disallowed. Subreddits who don't accept changes in social norms involving trans, gay, or sex get blocked or quarantined. Raiding from liberal to conservative subreddits is overlooked, while the opposite leads to quaranting. It's a double standard that permutates though the entire site.

The double standard isn't total, but it is severe enough to suppress certain non-monetizable viewpoints.

[kazagistar]

Socially conservative but fiscally liberal is much of the republican party of the USA. Fiscal liberalism is free market capitalism, and socially conservative is like religion or nationalistic preservationism or whatever.

Or are you thinking of the weird America centric definition of liberal that means vaguely "aligned with the democratic party".

[Avery3R]

If you're logged in there's an option in user prefs to always use old.reddit, even on www.reddit

[zeepzeep]

> it's annoying that I have to type "old.reddit.com"

You can use their web version? Aren't they constantly trying to get you to install the app? Or are you on desktop? In which case... wow, I didn't know people could use that.

[tester34]

Desktop and yea, I'm also using old.reddit

if old reddit dies, then I'll probably stop using Reddit or significantly reduce my time spent there.

[pmachinery]

There's also i.reddit.com, which I find the least unpleasant of all. I never liked old reddit that much even before it was old, and I'm almost impressed that they somehow managed to improve it into something even worse.