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.
Stop Using the Bad Site. Just stop doing it.
I did for two years. This place is great so long as you like talking about trump, tech and trek. Anything involving special interests outside of those though, Reddit has it.
Reddit was so surprised I was back it assumed my account was compromised and permananned me.
My VPN use probably didn’t help either
FYI lemmy.world is hostile to VPNs too; I just had to switch servers because it wouldn’t let me post a comment due to VPN use.
This happens to me a lot. I have a user ID and password, what does it matter that I’m using a vpn to post a comment?
I did an AskLemmy post about it a few months ago: https://lemmy.world/post/43898917?scrollToComments=true
As you can see, there’s not even consensus on whether or not VPNs are in fact being treated differently, let alone why. There are some in that thread that insist it’s a great idea, too.
Thanks that was informative.
they ban you even if go too hard on trump. people arnt just seeing the astroturfing for trump on reddit. after the election, it was very chaotic on reddit, they were banning people left and right spez was definitely cleaning house for IPO, and to appease the gop once he fully came to power last year. spez acted everytime musk ask him to ban people.
Uhh… no. I shit on him routinely on Reddit and I have yet to be banned.
Do you mean actively call for violence against him? Then yeah, they’ll ban you for that.
they allow criticism of trump, but not too much. it can be implication, or inneundo that can get you ban.
Right, I covered that in my last paragraph.
Calls for violence are against their ToS. Shocker!