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.
I regret every time I revisit Reddit. Them shutting down old.reddit will certainly keep me from ever going back. It’ll be a blessing in disguise for me.
I was addicted to reddit for over 10 years when they shutdown the RIF app. At first I felt like an addict detoxing and it hurt. but now I can look back at those times and say good riddance to Reddit.
I still enjoy this format of social media, and therefore use Lemmy a lot. It’s clear there’s no algorithm or bots upvoteing trying to make me angry or keep me on the site. There’s less bots here trying to steer the conversation or promote their product. I’m happy with Lemmy. Fuck reddit to death.
I’m the same with you. I was on reddit nearly since the beginning. It was my entire social life, well, mostly. As soon as they killed off TPA, I don’t bother anymore. obligatory, fuck spez.
Enshitifcation everywhere!
I got shadow banned like for been 2 months still I am and can’t even get karma up as people won’t see my comments so I just use that red alien for surfing and watching people comments that’s it 👾
yeah, this is the first of several steps to killing old reddit. And good riddance. I hope the whole company burns.
No need Reddit, in the moment to verify my ID, delete Reddit.
ive been saying they want to become facebook, Full ID(DRIVERS license) and facial recognition. eventually. plus they want to train googles ai models or openail.
I have FB but not use, IG not use and no like the full control…
So basically every link in Google will be login gated now?
Also easier to track users, incase they want to look for potential “bots”, GOOGLE is quite intimately intertwined with reddits operations.
Fuck you spez.
What a sad day. The platform that exposed me to overseas opinions. 🫡
It was ICQ for me but this ain’t a grumpy old timer contest
We really need a firefox addon to block reddit from google results automatically
uBlacklist
uBlacklist
looks like for Chrome (if that even supports plugins anymore, who even knows anymore) and Firefox… looks like it could work
Might as well not even use google 70% of the time though if you exclude reddit. I found before switching to DDG or Startpage that I would have to add reddit or site:reddit.com to my queries.
Seriously, what an odd take. The vast majority of questions simply cannot be answered these days if you exclude reddit from your search results. It used to not be this way. Something’s gotta give.
some very specific questions wont show up on other forums that reddit has, since most people from other forums/sites moved to reddit to start communities there, or niche content. outside of something like health related fourms, are still healthy, or something about evading SOCIAL media bot/spam detection methods.
i was used to be on other forums that largely died out or became less useful because reddit had most if not all the answers or discussions. remember the subreddit bans in the 2017ish-2018, i joined a international forum that they migrated to and left that one, as it started to deviate from the actual original subreddit it came from. it did replicate the UI of old reddit quite nicely though.
Oh they dont like people using their website as a website? Guess this is an issue that will solve itself.
STOP TALKING ABOUT REDDIT!
What the fuck is reddit?
Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.
Enshittification will continue until morale improves
they have too large of a presence of many of the main subs, like sports, celebrity gossip, movies/shows,etc, the og news and politics sub too, and then every new sub that popped up related to news or politics, thats probably where all the anomisity is coming from since the bans are likely coming from these giant subs. sports being another one, and now INDIA too. plus tons of porn subs, and OF peddling subs.
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…
Go into your reddit accounts and advocate for lemmy
If I wasn’t completely banned from Reddit maybe lol
bro. new mac on a router = new ip. new email = done.
perma banned 17 times
I only use it to shitpost and steal content. its a bad placesame haha. I ONLY use a vpn online, and they banned the VPN IPs. if i went on there without a VPN, they’d require my ID as I’m in a country that requires ID for social media. And that sure as fucking shit isn’t fucking happening.
hopefully reddits own filter, or subreddits dont ban you quickly
yea nah, we don’t want most of those idiots here, they can stay on their stupid surveillance app
Eh, there are a few minor communities I would want to invite. The rest can proverbially burn with the platform.
ok, just add this to your duckduckgo searches:
-reddit
😉👌 done
You don’t need to. You can actually block a website from appearing in results as long as you keep duckduckgo cookies.
Click the three dots besides a result and select “Block this site from all results”.
ok then i go to frontends. if that also shuts down, then bye bye reddit.
say bye anyway. spez and co don’t deserve your attention.
