This article looks at Reddit as a “comment economy.” Beneath the rhetoric of community and information sharing, the platform’s economic incentives favor conformity, reaction, endless engagement, and compulsive commenting over independent thought, meaningful discourse, and the exchange of knowledge.
Reddit’s revenue ultimately depends upon the creation of, extended attention to and the scrolling through of massive amounts of comments. This produces advertising opportunities, data value, repeat visits and valuable user engagement metrics.
yes its bad, thats why i use old reddit both on mobile and on desktop. it is designed to ultimately force people to use the APP, which is even more data mining.
Old Reddit no longer shows up for me; it switches to new (I’m in browsers on mobile devices). -blech-
on mobile, i use the sink it extension to make it usable on mobile. or you can use yeoldreddit extension. no need to zoom in or pinch. however reddit has been aggresively try to annoy you with the backspacing(zooms in and forces it to the top of the page).
doesnt seem to work with ironfoxes, as no matter what extension im using it wont switch away from newreddit(something ironfox is doing is preventing what firefox allows