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.
Do I have to login to use Lemmy? No, no I do not.
Bruh you don’t even have to be using lemmy to use lemmy. I seen @mastadon people all the time up in here.
There’s even an instance that pulls in Reddit posts, but it’s a one way bridge unlike mastodon.
Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.
Gotta hand it to Reddit though.
Somehow they keep coming up with ways to piss off more people.
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.
Which will then be regurgitated on reddit’s front page. A human centipede of enshittification.
Model collapse.
Fuck you spez.
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.
Honestly, Lemmy has been good for me in some ways because it isn’t as popular and doesn’t have the deep niche communities reddit has that I was super active in.
I get more accomplished now because I essentially “finish” my Lemmy browsing and move on, whereas reddit always had something else for me to dive into.
Yup.
‘Boredom’ is important. The various endless scroll platforms are not good, for a great number of us at least.
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
I spent months deleting my old reddit comments. And I’d have to type in my username on a search engine after about a month or two and find more of my old comments and delete those too.
I know the bots already scrapped my contributions. I wanted to say fuck off to to Reddit and take back my contributions.
I requested my data via https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request, and used every ID on that list to delete the comment via a small Javascript script I used in the browser (so I didn’t need to log on via their API, as I already was logged in).
It took a while because I had a 1 second delay between each delete. Before deleting I had actually replaced the last 1000 comments with some AI slow to poison their DB a little, before I decided to just slowly burn it all.
I’ve now been reddit free for a year, after having browsed the gods-forsaken site since 2008.
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.
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.
Hopefully this will be the push I need to quit Reddit.
I feel like apart from niche communities, Lemmy now has critical mass to survive on its own!
Reddit can suck my balls.
Oh they dont like people using their website as a website? Guess this is an issue that will solve itself.
My browser clears all cookies from Reddit when I close it down. And every time I go to the new Reddit site, it auto logs me in with my Google account. In some other sites there’s the annoying “log in with google account” popup at the top; it doesn’t do anything if you don’t click to log in. But Reddit doesn’t ask. Just says: “Logging you in” and you can click cancel if you’re fast enough.
They even auto create you an account if they do this for the first time.
Awhile ago they were also experimenting forcing mobile users to use the app
And now they’re also rolling out age verification in the EU (just got an email yesterday). One of the ways to verify your age is with Persona which Discord also tried to use and got a lot of backslash.
You can fix this on the google side
Holy shit that’s so fucked up
Enshitifcation everywhere!
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 place
Stop Using the Bad Site. Just stop doing it.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
