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As of a few minutes ago old.reddit.com now seems to requre logging in to access it.

Shame as it was still the best place to browse for info about some niche interests.

Edit: Seems like they might be testing the change as it is hit or miss at the moment.

Edit: Adding this to My flilters in uBlock Origin seems to fix the issue for the time being:

||reddit.com^$header=referer:

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

nobody cares about reddit

[–] UselessAsshole@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

ENJOYING THIS REDDIT DOWNFALL? CONTINUE ON THE APP! Or else...

[–] invisibleworld@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

It's was very frustrating there I just find an alternative but I'm not really used to it

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] abc@suppo.fi 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] Egret@lemmus.org 15 points 8 hours ago

Which is why I’m reading this here and not on Reddit

[–] TechSquidTV@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

I'm sick of reddit. I've been banned three times for calling out Nazis. Nazis don't get banned though

[–] captain_spicard@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I criticized ICE, and about 12 hours later I was met with a "Blocked by network security" page. The only option was to appeal to support, who wanted an explanation. I could still access my user settings so I went straight to the account deletion option.

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Same. I said "fuck republicans" and got 'permanently suspended'... which is just the dumbest thing in itself

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[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

I got banned for saying something about Musk during the height of the DOGE circus. I don't know what I said exactly because they delete the comment and then ban you.

I think I said I'd like to see him test his rocket and go to Mars. Which, I guess implies,.. something.

[–] max@europe.pub 6 points 7 hours ago

That’s one ode the reasons why I switched to lemmy

[–] An1m4L@lemmy.zip 12 points 8 hours ago

https://redlib.catsarch.com/ <- this works for me but, like most comments are saying, reddit became a stinkhole of bots, agendas and stealth advertising. it kinda makes me sick to go there nowadays.

[–] corey931@lemmy.wtf 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck ‘em. We’re here anyway

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm on both because the activity there is just unbeatable for niche topics, but I have been successful at bringing at least 1 or 2 other redditors over here and will continue to preach there!

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Same, I still lurk in some subreddits because there isn’t a spot here for them yet. Niche hobby subreddits are Reddit's strong spot.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 27 minutes ago

It also has an insanely bustling NSFW sub-industry, the likes of which just cannot be rivaled anywhere else apart from dedicated sites...

[–] ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago

Reddit thinks they're an exclusivity club nowadays. Love that mentality for them, just a platform full of bots, misinformation purposed for political polarization.

They wouldn't even let me delete my account last week, "errors occured" so I just uninstalled. Good riddance.

[–] sensimillagodzilla@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 hours ago

Mostly just lurk Reddit, so this sucks major nads.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Sometimes to block an obnoxious user I have to go to old reddit to see the option.

[–] Capybara_mdp@reddthat.com 20 points 11 hours ago (10 children)

While I’ve been on Lemmy for a while, I haven’t really seen any hobby - centric or geek centric areas.

I’ll miss the movie threads in particular, but there were a ton of active crafts, art & ttrpg threads to get inspiration from. Any suggestions?

[–] Grizzlybur@piefed.ca 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I run a few small communities on the fediverse, and its tough trying to start one up. Granted I try to keep mine canadian focused, but its an uphill battle either way. I was never one to volunteer or be an admin of a community, but I wanted to get the ball rolling somehow. Very disheartening to realize I'm the only one posting in the community, esp because I'm just a lurker at heart.

[–] PenguinVII@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

Idk about movies yet cause I'm new here as well but there's quite a great community for books here. I've written two posts and one of them almost got 100 comments.

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[–] Teknikal@anarchist.nexus 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (5 children)

Reddit has gotten really lame, there's always been saddos who troll through entire post history's when they can't win an argument.

Lately they've changed stratagies to calling people underage instead hoping mods delete accounts or something I guess. It just comes across as absolutely pathetic to me.

But yeah Reddit is definitely breaking old.reddit on purpose and will probably be just mostly bots soon .

[–] chloroken@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I have a theory that only shitstains complain about "people digging through post history". Let's put it to the test:

Being from the UK I actually support Nuking them if they try it again, the Falklands are all British Citizens and they voted on it fairly, let them revote if they like.

Well, there you have it. No wonder you don't want people looking at your public post history. You're in favor of using nuclear weapons against Argentina for a land dispute. Lmao. Theory confirmed.

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 hours ago

They are also forcing it for regular reddit. I get a pop up and when closed you can't scroll. There is even a thread about what to put in ublock to work around it.

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