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- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
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I used to hit reddit forums for internet queries because they are usually at the top of search engines. Now I blow right past them to the next in theme answers (steam for gaming for example) because the join us we are a cult splash screen is annoying. Anyone that is going to create a reddit account/use the app ALREADY IS. The enshittification is so painfully bad.
Try ro access Reddit through Redlib.
Use LibRedirect to make the redirect automatic.
I can’t believe how bad it is now. There is no real news. It used to be interesting but it’s so watered down that it’s basically pointless. Couple that with the quality of major news outlets, and we’re basically experiencing a media blackout.
and the AI rage bait posts that are honey pots for pissed off venting that leads to Bans.
I’d add the ubiquity of paywalls these days contributes a lot as well. We used to have it so good.
reddit is a fucking dumpster fire if you aren’t logged in… when i first joined lemmy i would still occasionally visit reddit when i got bored, but i wasn’t logging in and holy shit its a fucking cesspool!
if you aren’t logged in
Ngl, you had me in the first half
It is all bots. The actual remaining humans are there to make the same recycled jokes and argue with each other.
It is nice to not be on it (or here) constantly.
Yeah, you can’t talk there without risk of getting banned off the platform by chance. Sucks because a lot of well-built communities are there and most of what you need to ask can be found there.
I just want to tell the entire Minecraft community to pick up and leave. Would make my life way better if they just migrated over here. There is, unfortunately, a rule against cross promoting non reddit sites on their discord. Probably Microsoft’s doing…
Thanks for forcing me reddit. Hello lemmy
Hi friend!
The power move is to see that and never return. Let their analytics show you didn’t give in and won’t be giving them any more telemetry/user data/content.
Stop using platforms that are actively locking you out. The reason they keep doing this is because people keep complying.
Thanks for the content you createdfor us, now log in to see it.
Don’t log into an account.
Browse the Internet like normal.
If x.com or reddit.com won’t let you view without privacy, they’re dead and useless.
Have some spine; lead, and stop following and being led by evil people and companies.
This is true for YouTube as well.
You can view YouTube logged out
Yep, I do that. I don’t subscribe, I bookmark.
You can even get RSS feeds for channels. I use Miniflux, and it’ll make a feed just from the channel URL, but I think there might technically be a “proper” URL for the feed that other clients might need instead.
Probably should look into that actually.
I cant. Librewolf, adguard home and other stuff running. It asks me to log in every time. I dont know whats the issue and tbh i really dont care.
Freetube on linux solves that for me tho.
Google are becoming increasingly hostile, sometimes not age-restricted content will show the same if it flags your IP etc. and then login doesn’t even work, with multifactor errors if again IP limited or flagged you don’t even get your MFA options, passkey prompt not appearing etc all of it I presume in service of bot protection but definitely also ad and app blocking
XCancel and redlib will let you browse both without an account, and while cutting out most of their ad revenue as well (bots/marketing accounts notwithstanding of course)
Firefox extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/redlib/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/xcancel/
Redlib is also much easier to use on mobile than old reddit, but posts are rate limited to every 12 hours or something. So it actually helps stop you from doom scrolling a bit too.
Lol Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram with its nonstop log in request
Tumblr and Pinterest are on life support.
Insta and reddit still have enough inertia.
If they don’t make you log in, they lose sigint.
IF they do make you log in, they burn activity and users
Reddit will eventually fizzle out, Just another in a long chain of bad ideas trading short gains over long life.
Platforms with followers where it makes sense to have them, friends and followers on reddit always seemed odd to me
I wanted to leave reddit and that is the reason I cam to lemmy but sadly there is almost nothing here of my interest. It is mostly western based, so things of my interest arent really here.
I still have removed reddit from my phone and only use it on desktop to get to know about current affairs.
Nice. That is just enough of a barrier to stop be using reddit entirely. Not posted in years but sometimes read when bored enough.
Same, I’m 100% here now.
I still lurked since the api bs and after close to 20 yrs on reddit they pull this crap. They can get fucked.
Exactly why I’m here. I used RIF exclusively for a decade, then they killed it. I suffered with their browser version, but now they killed r/all and I ditched for good.
Red reader on android works great.
Mine stopped working yesterday
Been like that for about month in Aus.
You can still subscribe to reddit subs using RSS feeds (for now, they’re planning to discontinue RSS sadly). Then open it using redlib and LibRedirect browser extension.
Cant even read posts on the browser without being interrupted about a minute in saying to use their stupid fucking app. Reddit is trash.
Hopefully I stay on the unblocked side of old. Though I keep adding things like ?utm=fuckspez to the urls
Add " switch to Lemmy" to your reddit profile to drive more migrations.
If you use old.reddit.com, at least on chrome mobile, it doesn’t do this. That’s how I’ve gotten around that pop up. It’s more than mildly infuriating tbh.
They’ve recently started blocking access to old.reddit.com without logging in.
Almost like thats what this post is about.
I am quite literally on it right now and I don’t have a Reddit account.
Congratulations you’re on the B team of the Experiment.
It’s rolling out, so it just hasn’t hit you yet.
Yes, this has been suggested to me. Multiple times.
Welcome to A/B rollouts.
The idea is that instead of making a sweeping change for every single user, you roll a feature/system/UI update, etc out to a small number of users, to see how effective it is. It gives you time to see how those users react to it, how they interact with it, how it impacts their broader site usage, etc… And then once they have had time to gather some feedback and work out the bugs, they push it out to the rest of the users.
Most big tech companies use A/B rollouts nowadays. YouTube, Meta, Reddit, TikTok, etc all give users access to different updates at different times. Because it allows them to gauge how their users are actually interacting with the updates before they accidentally tank their entire system with a bad update.
For new features, it can also give the company time to properly scale their backend systems to accommodate a new feature. For instance, when Tiktok rolled out images in comments, they likely had to do some work on the backend to ensure their systems could handle the added load of suddenly downloading a bunch of images any time a user opened a comment section. By phasing the rollout in multiple steps, they didn’t have to upgrade all of their systems up front before making the feature available to some/most users.
Using this post as an example, imagine if there was a bug that didn’t allow users to log in after they got this prompt. Or didn’t allow logged in users to access the site, because it kept redirecting them back to this page. Or it allowed users to continue browsing without a login, as long as they were in Dark Mode. Or any number of other potential weird issues that could arise. The A-users are essentially pushed into beta testing the new feature, before the B-users get the update. In this case, you’re simply a B-user who hasn’t been scheduled to get the update yet.
Damn. And I was really starting to feel like “the chosen one” 😅
Sorry little Neo, once again you just weren’t picked first.
I just wanted to be special for once in my life :( ah well. Maybe in another life
Or they could just do it to regions/ips which are more suspicious.
You have a short while left. I heard about this a few weeks ago and just started getting the block today.
That’s annoying as shit. Welp, guess I’ll be visiting Reddit even less lol
Conclusive proof that you aren’t one of the ones that it has rolled out in. Interesting…
IM READING REDDIT without a account, got swept in the purges last year.
Fuggem
spez loves Musks, thats why he implented all those bans and the pervasive AI moderation.
Yep, just checked it as well. Clearly it’s not across the board.
What about comment sections?
You can’t comment though, right?
Lurker only
I don’t have an account. So, no.
Must be sectioned rollout or some shit weird
Guess so 🤷🏾♂️
“request desktop site” usually gets rid of the app nag.
I never post there anymore but there’s a lot of useful stuff from the old days.
I use uBlock origin to block the pop up, works great
Don’t you understand? Reddit is in DANGER from users NOT BEING LOGGED IN!
It wants you inside of it
Think of all the horrible CSAM posts I can flood reddit with while NOT LOGGED IN! They must be in shambles!
To be fair, the likely reason in this case is AI companies mass-downloading Reddit posts for their training runs. You can’t really cache the internet, so from what I understand, every training run they scrape this stuff anew.
For many smaller sites, it’s effectively a denial-of-service attack, which is why lots of them have put up this thing:
For Reddit, it might just be additional traffic that they have to pay for and which doesn’t give them any profit. Although, if Reddit is still as unstable as it was years ago, I also wouldn’t be surprised, if they got DoSed by that a few times as well.
What you say is true, but not the reason. Part of reddit’s business model is selling its data to AI companies. So they just don’t want to give it away for free
selling its data
Correction, selling its users’ data.
Reddit doesn’t make content, it just hosts content that its users submit for free and charges other people to access it.
I mean, that’s a lot of companies that do this.
Oh, well, if lots of companies do it, I’m sure we’ll all be fine.
Lol reddit’s already a mined wasteland.
You cannot, and never could, post without logging in.
I think it was a sarcastic attack on the claim that forcing you to log in for read-only access to the website is in any way keeping anything safer than it was.
That’s not really what that means, they don’t want people scraping reddit, which is much easier on old reddit.
Yeah I know I just thought it was funny that the first line is, we need to keep Reddit safe.
