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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.
Thanks for forcing me reddit. Hello lemmy
Weird. Not doing it to me.
Thanks for the content you createdfor us, now log in to see it.
Been like that for about month in Aus.
Artemis for Reddit still works without an account.
I didn’t even notice
Red reader on android works great.
Mine stopped working yesterday
Stop using platforms that are actively locking you out. The reason they keep doing this is because people keep complying.
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.
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.
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.
This is true for YouTube as well.
You can view YouTube logged out
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
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.
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.
Reddit is such a disgusting shit heap these days. There are still some subreddits worth lurking in but the majority is flooded with AI posts.
It used to be so nice.
much like everything private equity ruined.
Much like the internet in general. Anything that becomes popular in general goes the same path, even without private equity. That just accelerates it.
And the garbage finished taking itself out. Wonderful.
Don’t you understand? Reddit is in DANGER from users NOT BEING LOGGED IN!
It wants you inside of it
That’s not really what that means, they don’t want people scraping reddit, which is much easier on old reddit.
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.
Lol reddit’s already a mined wasteland.
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.
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.
