panos@catodon.rocks to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoReddit is becoming "a logged-in-only experience"www.dexerto.comexternal-linkmessage-square305fedilinkarrow-up1697arrow-down114
arrow-up1683arrow-down1external-linkReddit is becoming "a logged-in-only experience"www.dexerto.companos@catodon.rocks to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square305fedilink
minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·5 hours agoUnfortunately that’s not how it works. Once you have a sufficiently large userbase, the network effects are enough to sustain them. A ton of people use facebook still and that has been a logged-in experience forever. Same with instagram.
minus-squareMrScottyTay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-24 hours agoYou don’t have to be signed into Instagram at least to view things someone has shared with you. It’ll nag every now and then but it doesn’t stop you.
minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 hours agoFor me it stopped me plenty of times.
minus-squareyoumaynotknow@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 hours agoYeah, plus, I have all Meta shit blocked in all my VLANs, which doesn’t help either. I just use this on my phone with a VPN to download whatever it is, see it, and then delete it: https://github.com/naicolas-dev/socialmedia-downloader Has worked every single time. I think it works for TikTok, but that is something I’m not even willing to try.
Unfortunately that’s not how it works. Once you have a sufficiently large userbase, the network effects are enough to sustain them. A ton of people use facebook still and that has been a logged-in experience forever. Same with instagram.
You don’t have to be signed into Instagram at least to view things someone has shared with you. It’ll nag every now and then but it doesn’t stop you.
For me it stopped me plenty of times.
Yeah, plus, I have all Meta shit blocked in all my VLANs, which doesn’t help either.
I just use this on my phone with a VPN to download whatever it is, see it, and then delete it:
https://github.com/naicolas-dev/socialmedia-downloader
Has worked every single time. I think it works for TikTok, but that is something I’m not even willing to try.