Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.
The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”
The Reddit employee wrote:
Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in.
Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.
I’m not surprised, I was using it to visit NSFW subs for uh research recently in an incognito tab. It kept flagging me and not letting me in. Said I could log in if I think it’s an error. Like MF, I am specifically not logged in on purpose.
old.reddit is the only way I use it. this goes away, I delete my account.
The support forums like r/stopdrinking and r/CPTSD have been lifesavers for me, but reddit just keeps finding new ways to be terrible. RIP Aaron Swartz
Stop Using the Bad Site. Just stop doing it.
I did for two years. This place is great so long as you like talking about trump, tech and trek. Anything involving special interests outside of those though, Reddit has it.
Reddit was so surprised I was back it assumed my account was compromised and permananned me.
My VPN use probably didn’t help either
FYI lemmy.world is hostile to VPNs too; I just had to switch servers because it wouldn’t let me post a comment due to VPN use.
Reddit was so surprised I was back it assumed my account was compromised and permananned me.
Reddit is Ground Zero for Empty Internet Theory.
What’s your special interests?
Specific games I like
Local (and I do mean local) discussion
Brewing
Caravanning
Car stuff (communities around the specific make/model of car I own)
Etc…
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My city’s subreddit is very active (though the moderators recently went mad with power). I’m actively stealing their content to grow the Lemmy community for it.
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People talk about legal stuff a lot on Reddit, including asking (ex-)cops questions about them (because lots of (ex-)cops use Reddit).
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Just one of many reasons I have navigated here. A text-based social media platform has somehow become a rebellion.
Gotta hand it to Reddit though.
Somehow they keep coming up with ways to piss off more people.
Enshittification. They have their users locked in, and now it’s about trying to make money for their advertisers.
Are they? It seems like reddit’s main user base is bots and AI.
All to feed false information to news outlets LLMs, and search engines.
MOTHERFUCKER
I finally switched over. The changes to reddit mobile were awful, this broke the camel’s strained back.
Reddit is dead, it’s best we start treating it as such
Exactly the reason why I’m here…
Agreed.
I check Reddit like once a week since I started using Lemmy. I guess it will be down to nonce per week
uh
Nonce is used extensively in the context of cryptography to mean “used exactly one time”. Usually this refers to a random number that a server shares with a client to establish secure communications.
thanks, interesting :)
That’s what it’s supposed to mean? Because that is not the context I’ve ever seen it used in.
yeah that’s the only meaning I see it used with in the UK
I guess this will break millions of search links built up over the years
Obligatory “fuck u/spez”
Spez is a greedy little piggy
Honestly, one of the few optimistic news I’ve gotten in the last week. Tells me quitting Reddit was a smart move.
Reddit would like to be the only evil entity scraping reddit
Well. Besides Google who are paying for the privilege.
What a piece of shit company
Their ad copy now says stuff like “join the realest place on the internet!” Pretty funny when more than half the users are bots or otherwise bad actors there to forum slide or otherwise build consensus
Reddit is a disinformation fusion center modded by types like Ghislane Maxwell, nothing more. Don’t forget. Delete that cancer from your life
