Bad news for me, I use youtube a lot with an adblocker and it’s essentially ad-free. It’s going to be a bad day for me when they start cracking down. It doesn’t surprise me, but it’s a bummer.

The wording on those applications would definitely raise a flag for me. They totally sound bot generated.

I’ve joined a number of instances looking for the best performer, hops, pings, server response. That’s what I’ve been saying in my applications. Interestingly, my first sign-up was on Beehaw before I knew what I doing and they are the only ones that rejected me, about a week after I applied. Made me think, what did I say that was so awful? No biggie I already had some good instances to sign into.

That’s pretty significant. Petition them to come here.

That’s a good indicator when you find your instance blocked by a lot of other instances. I think the lesson is don’t leave low hanging fruit out there.

It actually amazes me there’s people out there doing these bot infestations. I mean there is some effort involved. Why go to all the trouble, what’s the payoff? And how are they able to find new unadvertised instances so quickly.

I think many are simply not doing anything until they have to. Once their app quits working, they’ll make a change at that time. Of course not everyone uses Mobile. Personally I don’t use mobile much for internet access, mainly desktop browser. In that case I could keep using Reddit same as before, but I don’t want to.

So the question is what portion of Reddit users are on mobile, how many will relent to the Reddit app, how many will quit using Reddit altogether, how many will look for an alternative, and finally how many will land on Lemmy or Kbin. Could be a lot, could be not many. We’ll find out pretty soon here.

For those that do come this way they’ll have a transition phase. There’s a lot that’s different here and takes some getting used to. Also the lack of certain features may result in some angst. There’s bugs too. They fixed some stuff with 0.18.0, but searching for and subscribing to communities is giving me fits now.