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https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in...
Otherwise I can still access Reddit without an account, e.g., /r/... and /r/.../comments/...
It seems the company still has not fully implemented this change
The notice suggests it should already be completed by now, but it isn't
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Lemmy (part of of fediverse), HN, Tildes, Lobste.rs.
i liked lemmy but was put off by how mixed the quality was, and how many random images seemed to link to dubious image repos or otherwise set off malware alarms. reddits heavy monetization means they at least try to keep out a majority of the bad actors but lemmy always seemed a wild west. perhaps i will revisit soon.
In general never felt like I saw some dodgy link or anything nefarious
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What did they do with i.reddit.com? That still works for me too as far as I know. But as long as I remember, it's needed some awful looking session identifier.
It cannot be possible. i.reddit.com is 301 permanently moved to www.reddit.com
old.reddit.com is remnants of a product they're trying to distance themselves from. People who like it are not the target market. It's not that they want you to go away, they'd much rather you be a scroll zombie addicted to the tripe on the front page. But if that's not an option they'd rather you fuck off. All the thoughtful subreddits I used to visit are ghost towns now, with 1-4 posts a month.
I noticed that too... There are still ways around it, but I don't think it'll last long. I don't know, I'm thinking of giving up on Reddit altogether
I've seen many people point out that, despite AI being heralded as increasing engineering productivity by 10x or more, we don't seem to have gotten a decade worth of new disruptive sites and apps like we got multiple times a year in the early 2010s. Not that surprising to me, as product fit was always the bottleneck, rarely engineering. But I can say that where AI and its externalities truly excel and have rapidly ac…
Last year they purged so many accounts and lost a ton of users, and now its full of AI bot slop accounts. I think the forced login is a way to bring back that engagement? Also i noticed they today hid comments behind"login to see the conversation on a mobile browser.
>I think the forced login is a way to bring back that engagement?
I just don't see it when they've decided that (a) bans, sometimes perma bans, are the solution to any (often hallucinated) misbehavior and that (b) the new user experience is to be as terrible as possible in as obtuse a way as possible.
It really seems like they're going hard for ragebait as their main driver of engagement. AITA, GirlDinnerDiaries, etc. Reddit is where your average oversocialized office worker with a boring life goes to read about peoples' drama and problems. The Jerry Springer show for millennials.