Anonymous acces to old.reddit.com now gone for me on all devices.
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Same on phone and different desktop browsers.
Additionally, anonymous access to regular reddit.com is blocked for me on mobile.
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Reddit is now in my 'forget it' zone - It's nothing more than a sewer at this point. There aren't very many people on there anymore anyway. The whole platform is swimming with millions of chatbots.
"To keep reddit safe"... Lololol
Safe from people scraping it and proving how damn robotic a lot of their content is these days no less.
Fixed your comment.
SERIOUSLY!?! Well Reddit can Fuckit!
Whats scary is this is the only place I've found any discussion about it. No news, no youtube vids about it, just silence all aroundd
You’re not really losing much of value there, Reddit was set on its enshittification course for years.
Agreed. I'm actually quite glad.
You can't read reddit without logging in, but IME you can't actually register an account without it getting instantly silent-banned either, unless you're using a non-anonymous mail or connection.
The only problem is that I still have the muscle memory of quickly typing reddit when opening a browser, but given that's now entirely pointless, that should fade sooner rather than later.
Shame about the smaller communities, like /r/panelshow which despite all its flaws was still useful for pirating those shows. Guess I'll have to go find it elsewhere.
Libredirect should get that solved for you, for now.
Nah, I'm retraining myself.
I have noted it too, I mainly used to browse /r/bestofredditorupdates in the mornings, and noted that when I was traveling to last week that it was blocked in Switzerland, when I got home I could access it for a few days, but I'd already detoxed from it, so I wasn't that interested anymore, and now it is blocked here in Sweden as well.
Oh my dudeski, they have somehow effectively blocked me from accessing the site AT ALL! It doesn't matter what browser I use, I keep getting a redirect error and can't even access the site. These idiots went FULL NUCLEAR on a good majority of its base just a day after going on the S&P market. They really fucked the whole users and the idea of what Reddit WAS about!
Even logged in (with a banned account) doesn't work anymore.
Oh well, fuck spez
To keep Reddit safe. Not users on Reddit safe.
They killed their RSS feeds too for old.reddit.com (still works on some regular reddit urls like https://reddit.com/r/games.rss)
I get redirected when I'm logged in but not when I'm not. Mobile still works but I don't think I've logged in again on my phone since it broke so I may be on borrowed time there. My accounts been banned for years and I only use it for porn anyway so no big loss there.
Maybe it's time I launch magazines on mbin for all the other r/communities that I liked, hoping at least some of those pick up.
You're already here, but look into browsing through a redlib frontend for other reddit things you need
Same here, I started to use old reddit when it became impossible to search content in a specific subreddit (search basically searched all of reddit and on top of that, you get an AI search).
Guess no more accessing some game specific subreddits for me.
Redlib my man. Self host for the best experience.
same here. worked with phone cellular for a while after my home/work net got blocked, but now that's gone as well..
new reddit anonymous access is incredibly annoying because it gives a popup every few seconds
It's annoying when you're logged in too. That site is hot garbage.
Use desktop mode on your phone. It won't pop up.
I meant on desktop
There have been many migrations from one site to another, I don't think this will be same as the big digg exodus.
I can still access old w/o being logged on. It will block me if I use a private window though. Browse w/o interaction and eats up bandwidth. F'em
What is reddit?
Sigh, just exactly how does pretending not to know about reddit contribute to the discussion?
It's modeling an attitude dismissive of the subject platform. It could also be highlighting one's feelings on discussing the behaviors of that platform's management.
Good, bad, or indifferent, it's a contribution and topical to boot.
Nope, I can't see how claiming that you don't know about not just the post's subject matter but also the entire community's subject matter, adds anything to the discussion other than annoying others
I found it sympathetic tbh.
I can't see how discouraging engagement on a free and open alternative promotes the goals of most lemmy instances. I get that some want a small isolated and difficult to reach communities but the mainstream statement is usually along the lines of displacing commercial media by means of providing a welcoming alterative.
You haven't been around the internet much, haven't you.
Only ever since the 90s
Ouch. My condolences.
i think it's that website that started out good, but ended up shit. Oh, you mean that's most websites?