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:
Edit: Best bet now is to use a proxy like safereddit.com.
I discovered Lemmy last week. Lurked for a while, then finally created an account. The experience is much better than Reddit so I say good riddance.
Some tips:
- We do have some trolls, we’re getting more popular. If you feel like someone is picking on you, those are them.
- Active is the default, but can seem less active because the active posts stay up longer. I made my default Hot, but then I check Active and Top 6 Hours.
- You’re probably going to go through a withdrawel. It varies by person, but mine took about a week or two.
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Fuck reddit.
If you need the old info download the archive. 99% of anything newer than 3 years is going to be bot slop. There’s zero reason to go to reddit intentionally.
Agree.
Most of it sure, but there are still some active subreddits with human involvement I wish would switch to Lemmy.
Same. I have 1 or 2 subreddits I check for info/advice that I wish would just migrate over here. It just isn’t worth opening the reddit app and dealing with the worst of humanity being pushed on me anymore.
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
It’s why I moved onto Lemmy. I can’t stand new Reddit.
For me it was the API changes that was the final straw. 3 years ago.
I don’t use Lemmy as much as I did Reddit. But I’ve also never missed Reddit.
God, was that really 3 years ago?
I know right
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Probably a good thing, honestly. We all need to be more offline anyways.
Same. Just joined as old and new Reddit have login walls now
This news finally convinced me to make a Lemmy account so I can participate a little more instead of lurk. That, and generally how awful Reddit has been becoming for like, several years at this point, since the IPO.
I’ve swapped out RedReader on my phone’s home screen with Boost; though I think it’ll take some time to break the Reddit addiction.
I am looking forward to seeing Lemmy’s growth!
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
ENJOYING THIS REDDIT DOWNFALL? CONTINUE ON THE APP! Or else…
Okthxbai
Interestingly enough, old.reddit users are in the single digit percentages:
Even if they weren’t hostile towards old.reddit (the ads are far less invasive and effective), they could make a strong argument for not wanting to support a dwindling, tiny userbase.
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.
Revanced has the pirated version of the app, gives full premium features too.
I used that until I got banned for saying nazis deserve to be dead lmao
So now as mainly a lurker I am stuck to coding out of spite.
Reddit being absolutely horrendous is what moved me to this site. I wish there was more people and more prominent communities though.
More people means more people! Most of us didn’t like people!
Honestly reddit went shit when everyone knew about it. You got mainstream shit that you could get on Facebook too. Don’t wish for more people! This makes it more fun and you can keep up.
I’m going to try hard to make Lemmy the thing I open before Reddit.
There just isnt enough ativity to scroll.
Also I had to unblock ML for some commjnities and those guys suck
Maybe time to do something else than scroll? Books or hiking or video games, anything!?
Woah judgey, I will just tell you you are superior if you ask. This post is still on the top of the page 15h later.
Yeah but the reddit community is more mainstream than Lemmy. Ah well, just gotta keep working at it!
It’s completely dead to me now
I’m sick of reddit. I’ve been banned three times for calling out Nazis. Nazis don’t get banned though
Same. I said “fuck republicans” and got ‘permanently suspended’… which is just the dumbest thing in itself
Meanwhile in r/hornymoderators:
"Fuck Republicans! Come enjoy of my disaster of a human body, conservative ladies! Runners up will be invited to my pool of hand stuff volunteering until my double carpal tunnel surgery someday.
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.
reddit is dead
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.
