I use safereddit.com now, it's unfortunate I can't access old reddit. New reddit is safer my ass
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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I'm going to try hard to make Lemmy the thing I open before Reddit.
I got banned from reddit after 11+ years (not entirely sure why). Never bothered to make a new account but did use old.reddit.com. That said, my reddit use has been dropping for months.
I guess I'm forced to not use it now. LOL.
Oh well.
I got banned for writing that Ashley Babbit was a traitor and was rightfully shot for storming the US Capitol. She was a member of the US military and will fully participated in a violent unsuccessful coup that planned to kill the VP at the very least.
I got a ban for updooting a post about Luigi. Reddit mods are fascists.
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I knew it was over when the CEO payed himself 200 million the year before it went public (or whatever) he basically looted the fucking place cause he knew it'd be worthless soon after
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I used python to write a program that bypasses the login prompt and displays the site in a wrapper that's identical to old reddit. It's honestly been kind of fun adding in features that were removed from the site years ago. Fuck spez and fuck all of his admins.
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Why aren't they just making the new version better, so that people are happy to use it?
The old reddit was optimized for users, then new reddit is optimized for the shareholders to maximize profit, this is why it is shitty.
It has a technical name: enshittification
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What are they going to do when they kill the rest of the olds that contributed and built that site?
My local subreddit replaced the mod during the APIpocalypse and it has turned to next door style whining and bickering. Then there are the also-whining counter whiners, and the shills.
What are they going to do when they kill the rest of the olds that contributed and built that site?
They don't care. Investors only want to monetize the current visitors. They have zero interest in what made the website good in the first place.
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I'm glad.
Fuck Spez -> Redlib allows you to view without logging in. Here's a list of other instances on github.
That content is effectively public property at this point, and we created it. We should have access to it.
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Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I'll just keep saying it...
Fuck spez, the greedy tiny penis-head that he is.
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My old account was banned from reddit a bit over a year ago. I don't remember what I said that caused it, but it was anti-Musk.
I used to contribute a ton to that site, but after the ban I didn't bother making a new account. I just leeched the site using old.reddit and had ad-block on. I found my use was reduced over the last few months because it's just recycled posts these days.
I'm not creating an account just to browse old.reddit and see memes from 3 years ago.
I haven't participated in reddit in quite awhile. But I still lurk on some niche communities, and often the site is the best result from search results. For those like me, I recommend redlib. It's a reddit front-end that lets you browse reddit without the abusive behavior. It won't allow you to post or comment, but you can still browse.
Reddit lost access to my comment contributions when their AI banned me for stupid reasons. They lost what ad revenue they could get from me when they blocked old reddit.
The harder you squeeze, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
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