Just migrated over from Reddit. My account was only 19 days old, and Reddit’s automated spam bots completely shadowbanned me purely for connecting over standard mobile carrier data. I didn’t even break a rule—the system just flagged my account profile out of nowhere and completely broke my mobile settings menu. Glad to be on the Fediverse instead
its likely actually what pushed to force logins now. banned a large portion of the user base, and that base is only lurking now. with that loss of datamining for google/AI, im guessing whatever scraped currently on reddit is mostly AI generated posts/comments, and reddit desperate to bring back actual users into the fold so they started and will force logins , so that user content can be sold to google again. conveniently google forced limiting accounts per device a few months ago.
Lol I love it when shit blows up in his face