Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com
arstechnica.com
Reddit says the beloved site is used for some "bad behavior."

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:

  • Wav_function@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    3 days ago

    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

    • slickgoat@lemmy.world
      English
      5·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • phineas1134@reddthat.comEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I agree, they will continue to exist on momentum for a good long while. I wonder though, how many of those MAU are really just bots?

      • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        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.

    • Geodes & Gems@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I think I went to Reddit at first because of what it was, I watched a lot of Reddit “reading” videos for a while so decided to join myself, but the Reddit I wanted to join was already gone by the time I actually did join, then it got worse until I didn’t want to take it anymore, the AI got added, then the Games, that was the final straw I think.