Because its still the best (or only) place to get specific news and updates immediately. I mainly follow various sports teams, athletes, and small sports media people. I tried the same on Mastadon but most people are not there. I have not posted anything in many years.
This biometric stuff is no good though and I will not be participating in that.
I live in a large city and as of last year I have two choices for high speed home internet. I was paying $70/month for 300/20 with cable, now I have fiber and pay $70/month for 300/300. At least the first year was cheaper as a new customer and the faster upload speed is helpful for work from home.
Yeah I agree, though I always thought Narwhal was the second most popular 3rd party iOS app behind Apollo. Maybe those apps still open agreed to exchange user data with reddit or something? I just went to the app store for Narwhal and the privacy policy goes to a link that says its no longer active. Maybe that is an oversight or maybe not? I haven’t had an active reddit login for a few years now but old.reddit… also still works for NSFW views with no login.
I mostly just browse a few fringe subs and check to see whats on the frontpage and r/all. The general content on those has been really bad lately. It feels like a mix of corporate approved news, repost bots, and writing prompts which is probably what it is.
Not sure about Comet but the Narwhal dev made some deal with reddit. They removed ads and nsfw content and are going to release a subscription based model I think.
Not worth the hassle for the 5 mins a day I use it on my phone.