- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- technology@lemmit.online
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- technology@lemmit.online
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.
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ok then i go to frontends. if that also shuts down, then bye bye reddit.
Go into your reddit accounts and advocate for lemmy
ok, just add this to your duckduckgo searches:
-reddit
😉👌 done
Oh they dont like people using their website as a website? Guess this is an issue that will solve itself.
There are many instances of Redlib which can be used to sidestep reddit dot com. I’d recommend finding a few good ones if you find yourself getting info from reddit very often. Or better yet, host your own.
What I would like to know, though, is what is the best way to automatically use a Redlib instance whenever I click a reddit dot com link on my device. I have an app from f-droid called “sidestep” which works ok but not great. I’m looking for something which ideally works on both android and Linux.
To be honest, I thought they already required that. They just want to keep killing their site, but people refuse to switch over to Lemmy, so niche communities only remain on Reddit and Discord. It’s very disheartening. People are morons. There, I said it.
Reddit can suck my balls.
Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.
If I’ve learned anything over the past decade, it’s that people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification
Most people seem to not even have any notion of how things can be better. They never even think to look up like “block ads”. They just take whatever fuckery they get
people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification
If they didn’t, it wouldn’t happen (so much). It’s like: we get the government we deserve…
Redreader still works for Android
this is why I use safereddit.com and always have. rarely, if ever, lets me down.
Never heard of it before but when I typed it, it went to redlib - which is what I use. Lol
Redlib is a self-hosted software - there are many different public instances.
Correct me if i’m wrong – I use redlib as well – I thought redlib worked by scraping old.reddit.com?
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.
Redreader/throwaway account
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
me as well - although, I’m generally logged in. The change is supposed to require you to log in, so… deleting your account in response is a bit of a strange reaction.
Yup.
I only use old Reddit at work on a computer now. I create a new account every day as it takes that long for them to shadowban me. I get a handful of comments in, get a number of upvotes/downvotes and influence opinions, then I create a new account when I get into work the next day.
Don’t have time for a shitty platform on weekends as I have better things to do and I don’t care to use it on mobile, even though RedReader still works and looks like old Reddit.
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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Gotta hand it to Reddit though.
Somehow they keep coming up with ways to piss off more people.
Disabling mobile browser users with an unclosable popup was the drop for me lol
Oh this is nothing. They’re currently testing identity verification. As in, “send a pic of your government-issue ID to Persona so they can check who you really are” (and cross-reference you with other sites that use Persona, like LinkedIn etc.)
I’m also surprised they’re still allowing old accounts that don’t have an email. Or that they’re not mandating everybody to add and verify their phone number “for security and 2FA” – another excellent way of cross-referencing people against all kinds of databases. Just imagine what they can get if they work out a deal to share your phone number with Google, or Amazon.
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.
Just one of many reasons I have navigated here. A text-based social media platform has somehow become a rebellion.
