As of a few minutes ago old.reddit.com now seems to requre logging in to access it.
Shame as it was still the best place to browse for info about some niche interests.
Edit: Seems like they might be testing the change as it is hit or miss at the moment.
Edit: Adding this to My flilters in uBlock Origin seems to fix the issue for the time being:
||reddit.com^$header=referer:
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https://redlib.catsarch.com/ <- this works for me but, like most comments are saying, reddit became a stinkhole of bots, agendas and stealth advertising. it kinda makes me sick to go there nowadays.
Reddit has gotten really lame, there’s always been saddos who troll through entire post history’s when they can’t win an argument.
Lately they’ve changed stratagies to calling people underage instead hoping mods delete accounts or something I guess. It just comes across as absolutely pathetic to me.
But yeah Reddit is definitely breaking old.reddit on purpose and will probably be just mostly bots soon .
I have a theory that only shitstains complain about “people digging through post history”. Let’s put it to the test:
Being from the UK I actually support Nuking them if they try it again, the Falklands are all British Citizens and they voted on it fairly, let them revote if they like.
Well, there you have it. No wonder you don’t want people looking at your public post history. You’re in favor of using nuclear weapons against Argentina for a land dispute. Lmao. Theory confirmed.
Fuck ‘em. We’re here anyway
While I’ve been on Lemmy for a while, I haven’t really seen any hobby - centric or geek centric areas.
I’ll miss the movie threads in particular, but there were a ton of active crafts, art & ttrpg threads to get inspiration from. Any suggestions?
I’ve been struggling to find a movie thread replacement. Seems like all the movie communities are dead. Any recommendations?
What do u mean? Just search for movies and television communities - piefed has largest
We can always create them here, no? But yeah, they were really good
Completely unrelated question: any recommendations for a good porn feed, besides fedinsfw.app?
I could start streaming my showers? I take two a day
I know that you meant this as a joke, but this is literally how online communities are built. One really dedicated nutter just keeps posting OC whether anyone else wants it or not, and slowly other people start adding stuff because it’s an active place.
So, you go right ahead and you do you.
A steamy Fediverse stream? Count me in!
I’ve seen this a few times, I’ve just abandoned the thing I clicked and quickly found a different source.
Wasn’t even an inconvenience. This is a real stupid idea on Reddit’s part.
reddit.com resolves to ::1 for me :)
That way I can’t even accidentally click on a reddit link.
The baller move would be to get reddit.com to resolve to lemmy.
Or meatspin, if you want (…negative?) reinforcement
Now that’s dedication
reddit is dead
Deaddit.
Referrer, really? Disable browser wide
i noticed something also unusual, if you post a comment on FF, or its fork it refreshes the page? seems like a bug.
What’s FF?
Probably Firefox
Is Reddit still a thing? I wasn’t aware?
I thought that it had evolved into a bot parliament.
I thought that it had evolved into a bot parliament.
It did. The moderation filters that are supposed to ban people for rule breaking are automated by bots and the appeals are also ran by bots. They made it so all accounts are tied to a single, making it so if you had alts to bypass the ban, they banned those too and don’t give you any time to appeal again.
There’s also too many things you can get banned for now and because it’s all automated now, Lemmy, is the last vestige of being able to speak your mind and there’s no hive mind here.
well not as ready to use their stingers here and down votes don’t mean shit here like at least if you’re down voted here, you’re not hidden into an oblivion and your comment shadow banned.
Reddit is a hive-mind bullshit area where if you don’t agree on everything you’re attacked in a way where if you retort to what could very well be be perceived as cyber bullying, you’re banned. If you retort to anything by speaking your mind, you’re banned or blocked from the community.
It’s full of pieces of shit, even the bass guitar community, it’s all people telling other people who go there for advice to go to another forum or identifying bass guitars that google lens can figure out by model number.
there’s no hive mind here
lolwut.
I guess you say there isn’t a single hivemind, it’s hiveminds divided by instance.
Reddit is still a massive social media platform, it’s corporatized and bot ridden but it’s still huge.
There are whole generations of young people jumping on it only knowing it for what it is now and not what it was.
It’s still a place to “anonymously” comment on and share media.
Lemmy is still a super niche nerd platform
That’s very true, for now.
At this moment Reddit is existing on its former reputation. There are a host of like internet megalithic platforms that are now not even distant memories. Once they outlive their former utility they fade pretty quickly. Think of MySpace, Friendster and Yahoo Groups. Even Facebook is circling the plughole, but it may take a while before disappearing due to its former dominant position.
Another post said facebook has 3 billion MAU, reddit 800M iirc, they can hold out for a while as they circle. I don’t think they are going to disappear anytime soon.
Hopefully I stays true for a long time.
The moment Lemmy gets too popular it will come under the microscope of Chat Control/Social Media Age limits.
Federation might save us, but it could easily go the other way and federation itself becomes a target.
sports, music, movies, and relates sub is huge on there.
I’m glad.
Ya know, I might repost some of my reddit posts here
This news finally convinced me to make a Lemmy account so I can participate a little more instead of lurk. That, and generally how awful Reddit has been becoming for like, several years at this point, since the IPO.
I’ve swapped out RedReader on my phone’s home screen with Boost; though I think it’ll take some time to break the Reddit addiction.
I am looking forward to seeing Lemmy’s growth!
Welcome! Lemmy lives on active participation, and you made the right call. Besides, the chatter here can get lively!
Not to mention we have some Lemmywide games and activities from time to time (the most recent being the Season 4 of [email protected], the basic idea of which you may recognize from Reddit), and you’ll need an account to take part!
You’re actually joining at a good time. When i created my account it was one post every few hours haha
omg no! anyway
Been gone. Fuck reddit!
