Technology

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.

Enshitifcation everywhere!

Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.

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.

Fuck you spez.

So basically every link in Google will be login gated now?

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.

What a sad day. The platform that exposed me to overseas opinions. 🫡

Gotta hand it to Reddit though.

Somehow they keep coming up with ways to piss off more people.

Do I have to login to use Lemmy? No, no I do not.

Oh they dont like people using their website as a website? Guess this is an issue that will solve itself.

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

No need Reddit, in the moment to verify my ID, delete Reddit.

Darn. Old Reddit is the last way to access NSFW subreddits without logging into Reddit.

When they close old.reddit will be the best time to advertise the lemmy instances that use that similar looking theme by default

We really need a firefox addon to block reddit from google results automatically

Go into your reddit accounts and advocate for lemmy

Reddit can suck my balls.

If I ever browsed Reddit that was the only method I used. Guess I’ll just not use it at all

I still read one subreddit regularly via old.reddit.com, via VPN without logging in. I guess I will stop now.

Honestly, one of the few optimistic news I’ve gotten in the last week. Tells me quitting Reddit was a smart move.

Reddit is dead, it's best we start treating it as such

Remember to scramble all your posts before you leave if you're still in that shithole.

Stop Using the Bad Site. Just stop doing it.

Reddit would like to be the only evil entity scraping reddit

Obligatory “fuck u/spez”

ok, just add this to your duckduckgo searches:

-reddit

😉👌 done

Hopefully this will be the push I need to quit Reddit.

Oh? Guess what I require old.reddit.com to do?

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.