Do I have to login to use Lemmy? No, no I do not.
Bruh you don't even have to be using lemmy to use lemmy. I seen @mastadon people all the time up in here.
piefed too.
And mbin!
And my axe!
Sorry its a old one.
Thas the best thing about the fediverse. As long as your on, you can communicate with others.
You can still visit - and scrape - the new Reddit without logging in, so the scraping is obviously just an excuse for what everyone saw coming from the start: the gradual complete shutdown of old Reddit.
Darn. Old Reddit is the last way to access NSFW subreddits without logging into Reddit.
Yeah, this will be quite a loss… genuinely a shame. It sucks that we can’t scrape and rebuild a copy of the whole site…
There's a website called Reddtastic that works great!
Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.
If I've learned anything over the past decade, it's that people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification
Most people seem to not even have any notion of how things can be better. They never even think to look up like "block ads". They just take whatever fuckery they get
When they close old.reddit will be the best time to advertise the lemmy instances that use that similar looking theme by default
Keep in mind that rystaf/mlmym has been last updated years ago. old.lemmy.world uses the FHF's fork, which has had a few fixes made to it.
self promotion
I actually have a fork of that fork at mschae23/mlmym which is significantly different (in terms of new features and bugfixes) from the others by now. In fact, this is what's deployed by your instance at old.lemmy.today :)
~~Though it unfortunately seems to be having issues with rate limits at the moment.~~
edit: This should be fixed now!
If I ever browsed Reddit that was the only method I used. Guess I’ll just not use it at all
I use it while logged on to keep trying to sway people over to Lemmy, haha. After all, that's how I found this place...
Gotta hand it to Reddit though.
Somehow they keep coming up with ways to piss off more people.
Fuck you spez.
Hopefully this will be the push I need to quit Reddit.
I feel like apart from niche communities, Lemmy now has critical mass to survive on its own!
old.reddit is the only way I use it. this goes away, I delete my account.
The support forums like r/stopdrinking and r/CPTSD have been lifesavers for me, but reddit just keeps finding new ways to be terrible. RIP Aaron Swartz
Oh they dont like people using their website as a website? Guess this is an issue that will solve itself.
Redlib still works, for now. I'm using this instance currently.
The login wall is probably gonna kill Redlib though, so read it while you still can.
I still read one subreddit regularly via old.reddit.com, via VPN without logging in. I guess I will stop now.
I'm in a similar boat. Deleted my accounts. Visit a few old communities that are hard to move on from, but old.reddit has always been my line in the sand.
Remember to scramble all your posts before you leave if you're still in that shithole. Redact works if you're having trouble finding something to use.
I regret every time I revisit Reddit. Them shutting down old.reddit will certainly keep me from ever going back. It'll be a blessing in disguise for me.
I was addicted to reddit for over 10 years when they shutdown the RIF app. At first I felt like an addict detoxing and it hurt. but now I can look back at those times and say good riddance to Reddit.
I still enjoy this format of social media, and therefore use Lemmy a lot. It's clear there's no algorithm or bots upvoteing trying to make me angry or keep me on the site. There's less bots here trying to steer the conversation or promote their product. I'm happy with Lemmy. Fuck reddit to death.
Honestly, one of the few optimistic news I’ve gotten in the last week. Tells me quitting Reddit was a smart move.
My browser clears all cookies from Reddit when I close it down. And every time I go to the new Reddit site, it auto logs me in with my Google account. In some other sites there's the annoying "log in with google account" popup at the top; it doesn't do anything if you don't click to log in. But Reddit doesn't ask. Just says: "Logging you in" and you can click cancel if you're fast enough.
They even auto create you an account if they do this for the first time.
Awhile ago they were also experimenting forcing mobile users to use the app
And now they're also rolling out age verification in the EU (just got an email yesterday). One of the ways to verify your age is with Persona which Discord also tried to use and got a lot of backslash.
abusive scraping
As opposed to the plain old scraping they do to train AI, and generate revenue by selling user comments for others to train AI.
I read a half-cocked internet theory that a certain someone might've purchased twitter just to gain access to an ex-gf's personal tweets. I judged it as possible but unlikely, as that's a lot of money to spend on such a thing.
Now, we've all heard stories about reddit blocking accounts for no published reason, and tracking folks down across accounts/IP addresses/etc. That code must be pretty expansive to do the things they've done. So one has the thought: if you've ever reached out to the reddit hive mind for some kind of support with a personal issue of any kind then that data about you is still floating around in their database and tied to whatever alternate accounts you have, even if it was the "good old days" when you did it.
Abusive scraping, my ass.
Enshitifcation everywhere!
Reddit can suck my balls.
Perfect timing. Today i received a mail that in a few weeks i have to verfiy my age. So now i have two reasons to delete the account.
Obligatory “fuck u/spez”
Oh no! Anyway...
Stop Using the Bad Site. Just stop doing it.
I did for two years. This place is great so long as you like talking about trump, tech and trek. Anything involving special interests outside of those though, Reddit has it.
Reddit was so surprised I was back it assumed my account was compromised and permananned me.
My VPN use probably didn't help either
We really need a firefox addon to block reddit from google results automatically
I use old. as the only way to access reddit, but I've noticed that more and more pages are sending me to the new pages. I tried new for a day the other day and didn't really like it. So I guess I'll use it until old is gone.
I've been using RedReader to view the 2-3 subreddits that don't have an equivalent here on Lemmy. Hope those still work...
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
