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.
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.
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: