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.
Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.
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
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.
Perfect sheep for capitalism.
They don’t even notice in my experience.
They think people like us are losing it for even noticing.
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
Darn. Old Reddit is the last way to access NSFW subreddits without logging into Reddit.
Yeah, this will be quite a loss… genuinely a shame. It sucks that we can’t scrape and rebuild a copy of the whole site…
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Fuck you spez.
Gotta hand it to Reddit though.
Somehow they keep coming up with ways to piss off more people.
Disabling mobile browser users with an unclosable popup was the drop for me lol
It almost was for me but old.reddit.com kept it alive for just a little longer. Went to look at my old tabs at lunch today and got hit with the sign-in prompt. Guess it’s dead for me on mobile.
with them going public with the company, it was a death knell. and constantly trying to appease MUSK has caused a lasting effect. he was the reason why so many people got banned in purges last year.
You can still visit - and scrape - the new Reddit without logging in, so the scraping is obviously just an excuse for what everyone saw coming from the start: the gradual complete shutdown of old Reddit.
Actually new reddit page source doesn’t load comments anymore. You need to execute JavaScript in the page for comments now. Old reddit still gives you a simple page with comments, so probably why they made it login only. You can’t legally scrape pages behind login because you agreed to their tos by logging 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.
piefed too.
And mbin!
And my axe!
Sorry its a old one.
Thas the best thing about the fediverse. As long as your on, you can communicate with others.
That still only counts as one!
Hello from piefed
How do you like it? I’m thinking about trying it out.
I like it better than Lemmy. There’s more features, and, maybe I’m weird, but I like the Piefed web interface better than Lemmy’s.
It’s nice and has some interesting features, like when there’s a crosspost, it show comments from all communities discussing the same post, or the possibility of following topics
This is amazing. Really brings together the different instances
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.
If I ever browsed Reddit that was the only method I used. Guess I’ll just not use it at all
I use it while logged on to keep trying to sway people over to Lemmy, haha. After all, that’s how I found this place…
What a piece of shit company
Their ad copy now says stuff like “join the realest place on the internet!” Pretty funny when more than half the users are bots or otherwise bad actors there to forum slide or otherwise build consensus
Reddit is a disinformation fusion center modded by types like Ghislane Maxwell, nothing more. Don’t forget. Delete that cancer from your life
When they close old.reddit will be the best time to advertise the lemmy instances that use that similar looking theme by default
Keep in mind that rystaf/mlmym has been last updated years ago. old.lemmy.world uses the FHF’s fork, which has had a few fixes made to it.
self promotion
I actually have a fork of that fork at mschae23/mlmym which is significantly different (in terms of new features and bugfixes) from the others by now. In fact, this is what’s deployed by your instance at old.lemmy.today :)
Though it unfortunately seems to be having issues with rate limits at the moment.edit: This should be fixed now!
Remember to scramble all your posts before you leave if you’re still in that shithole. Redact works if you’re having trouble finding something to use.
Enshitifcation everywhere!
So basically every link in Google will be login gated now?
Oh they dont like people using their website as a website? Guess this is an issue that will solve itself.