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.

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

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.

Fuck you spez.

Enshitifcation everywhere!

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

Gotta hand it to Reddit though.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reddit can suck my balls.

Go into your reddit accounts and advocate for lemmy

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

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

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

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

Reddit would like to be the only evil entity scraping reddit

Stop Using the Bad Site. Just stop doing it.

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

Obligatory “fuck u/spez”

ok, just add this to your duckduckgo searches:

-reddit

😉👌 done

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.

Redlib still works, for now. I'm using this instance currently.

The login wall is probably gonna kill Redlib though, so read it while you still can.

abusive scraping

As opposed to the plain old scraping they do to train AI, and generate revenue by selling user comments for others to train AI.

I read a half-cocked internet theory that a certain someone might've purchased twitter just to gain access to an ex-gf's personal tweets. I judged it as possible but unlikely, as that's a lot of money to spend on such a thing.

Now, we've all heard stories about reddit blocking accounts for no published reason, and tracking folks down across accounts/IP addresses/etc. That code must be pretty expansive to do the things they've done. So one has the thought: if you've ever reached out to the reddit hive mind for some kind of support with a personal issue of any kind then that data about you is still floating around in their database and tied to whatever alternate accounts you have, even if it was the "good old days" when you did it.

Abusive scraping, my ass.