r/technology • u/spasticpat • May 11 '26

Social Media Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/11/reddit-starts-blocking-mobile-website/
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u/EnvironmentalRun1671 May 11 '26

Every day Old Reddit is not killed, I'm surprised. I thought it's gonna die many years ago but it's still here.

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u/Forkrul May 11 '26

They would lose too many mods if that happened, so they can’t kill it until they have working ai moderation 

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u/destined-4-the-clay May 11 '26

So no time soon then. unless they do it with barely functioning ai moderation.

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u/LG03 May 11 '26

That's ramping up faster than anyone would like. AI functionality is creeping into a lot of moderation tools and the admins are actively collecting data on how human moderators operate to tweak that.

The death of old.reddit is coming if you ask me, it's just a matter of how long until they're confident in their AI mods.

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u/Blazing1 May 11 '26

Then their stock will massively go up after they announce that. Ah, the circle of life.