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foofighter
lemmy.world

I just found this out naturally and immediately came to lemmy to see if someone's posted about it.

Seriously I don't want a reddit account and old.reddit.com without logging in has been a great way of checking up on the odd thing without having an account and being stuck in the dark patterns that keep you engaging

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foofighterreply
lemmy.world

100%. From the arstechnica piece:

Making Old Reddit users log in could impact Reddit scraping but also will address Reddit’s interest in connecting as much traffic as possible to specific users—a strategy that is common among companies like Reddit that rely on advertising for revenue.

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LiarAmongAllreply
lemmy.zip

Honestly, since Baconreader finally stopped working even with patching, being reddit free has been incredible for the last month. Anxiety is way down, lemmy only really updates once a day for my feed, so I only scroll for maybe an hour, then it's back to reading or writing or getting life in order.

I'm glad they continue to make their site worse and worse, it's all the convincing I need to not go back to it. I like Lemmy overall more anyway, the people generally seem less black and white on every damn topic. Nuance needs a place in the world damnit.

The only part of reddit I still check is the OSRS sub because that's where the majority of game updates are posted and I like reading discussions about update.

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Zedd_Prophecyreply
lemmy.world

I went through a lot to delete all my comments and account. Not making one again. There's always a workaround.

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Blibly
lemmy.world

Killing 3rd party apps and allowing bots to run free spewing garbage spelled the end of Reddit a while ago. It's been shambling along, zombified, but the rot is too systemic.

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Fluffy Kitty Catreply
slrpnk.net

We need to transition smaller communities away from it so that no one has to go back

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unitedwithme
lemmy.today

Thank goodness I was banned about a year ago. Only thing I miss are the sales communities!

r/hardwaresales, r/avexchange, r/homelabsales, etc

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Voxel
feddit.org

Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in.

Quote from the article.

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Einhornyordle
feddit.org

Redlib is really the last bastion that keeps Reddit usable for me. Once it falls, I will completely quit the plattform.

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late_pessimistic
slrpnk.net

This is masks off moment for old.reddit. They have already done device fingerprinting, usage analytics, IP address retention, and cookies before, so not asking for email was rather symbolic, token privacy feature anyway. Removing it only confirms what's already been there for years.

Use redlib, it's nice. You can disable JavaScript and use it through Tor for complete security and anonymity, subscribe to subreddits, and it also has a lot of themes to customize your experience with.

And you can export your settings and subscriptions to import on another redlib instance anytime, so you are never locked in using only one instance forever.

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ThisGuyThat
lemmy.world

Still annoyed they killed .compact. Old reddit is probably on the chopping block too.

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