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Redlib is really the last bastion that keeps Reddit usable for me. Once it falls, I will completely quit the plattform.
I just found this out naturally and immediately came to lemmy to see if someone’s posted about it.
Seriously I don’t want a reddit account and old.reddit.com without logging in has been a great way of checking up on the odd thing without having an account and being stuck in the dark patterns that keep you engaging
Honestly, since Baconreader finally stopped working even with patching, being reddit free has been incredible for the last month. Anxiety is way down, lemmy only really updates once a day for my feed, so I only scroll for maybe an hour, then it’s back to reading or writing or getting life in order.
I’m glad they continue to make their site worse and worse, it’s all the convincing I need to not go back to it. I like Lemmy overall more anyway, the people generally seem less black and white on every damn topic. Nuance needs a place in the world damnit.
The only part of reddit I still check is the OSRS sub because that’s where the majority of game updates are posted and I like reading discussions about update.
I went through a lot to delete all my comments and account. Not making one again. There’s always a workaround.
They know.
100%. From the arstechnica piece:
Making Old Reddit users log in could impact Reddit scraping but also will address Reddit’s interest in connecting as much traffic as possible to specific users—a strategy that is common among companies like Reddit that rely on advertising for revenue.
Killing 3rd party apps and allowing bots to run free spewing garbage spelled the end of Reddit a while ago. It’s been shambling along, zombified, but the rot is too systemic.
We need to transition smaller communities away from it so that no one has to go back
Yes, I hope we can. I miss my niche communities 😞
Maybe we should start with the big communities first
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.
Quote from the article.
Thank goodness I was banned about a year ago. Only thing I miss are the sales communities!
r/hardwaresales, r/avexchange, r/homelabsales, etc
Still annoyed they killed .compact. Old reddit is probably on the chopping block too.
