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.
This is presumably because they’ve been boosting their anonymous agitator account with their profiles set to private, and there are tools out there that reveal said hidden comments like arctic-shift which I assume utilise old.reddit. They are trying so desperately to curate a rightwing majority narrative that simply isn’t true.
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.
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!
No need Reddit, in the moment to verify my ID, delete Reddit.
They want your ID because they’re legally forced to. A VPN will fix it.
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.
yeah, this is the first of several steps to killing old reddit. And good riddance. I hope the whole company burns.
It was a long time coming, but when old reddit dies, I will have a cold beer for all the “good” times and then I’ll be on my way onto new adventures elsewhere.
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
It works for those SEO spam sites too. You visit such a site, go back in history to your search engine, and in the result’s top right corner block the website. It’s neat. It doesn’t work by default with Qwant and you need to add some line in the settings that’s in one of the GitHub issues.
You can subscribe to Super-SEO-Spam-Suppressor to have it automagically updated too.
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.
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 👾
Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.
Enshittification will continue until morale improves
If I’ve learned anything over the past decade, it’s that people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification
They don’t even notice in my experience.
They think people like us are losing it for even noticing.
Yep, they’ll hit you with the:
🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
Can confirm. Blew a fuse when Spotify started sneaking AI generated music in my playlists and my whole family said I was overreacting and that it didn’t matter
People on average will literally put up with anything. You can charge them $10/month for their email and you see 90% or so of all people just shrug and then pay it.
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
Another reminder that the average IQ is 100.
I really like listening to Amy Poehler’s podcast, and there is a running joke that whenever she pulls up YouTube on air, she has to sit through ads.
And guests will kind of rib her for it, but they do it because she hasn’t paid for YouTube to get rid of ads. Always like, “omg you still haven’t just paid for YouTube?! I can’t believe you have ads!”
Like… Are most people simply unaware that ad blockers exist? I’ve never watched a YouTube ad, nor have I paid a dime to them for anything. I will simply not use YouTube before ever sitting through a single ad.
I just don’t understand how people can be so strangely incurious as to not even wonder if there’s a way to stop this bullshit.
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…
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.
Yeah, mainstream folks like mainstream social media.
Oh they dont like people using their website as a website? Guess this is an issue that will solve itself.
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.
STOP TALKING ABOUT REDDIT!
What the fuck is reddit?
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”.
