- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
- reddit@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
- reddit@lemmy.world
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:
Edit: Best bet now is to use a proxy like safereddit.com.
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I discovered Lemmy last week. Lurked for a while, then finally created an account. The experience is much better than Reddit so I say good riddance.
Some tips:
- We do have some trolls, we’re getting more popular. If you feel like someone is picking on you, those are them.
- Active is the default, but can seem less active because the active posts stay up longer. I made my default Hot, but then I check Active and Top 6 Hours.
- You’re probably going to go through a withdrawel. It varies by person, but mine took about a week or two.
Welcome.
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Lies! There’s also star trek
Skill issue
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You suggest that there is only anime porn and Linux here, and yet, you are here. So either you loathe yourself, adore Linux and anime porn, or adore those things AND loathe yourself. I don’t think you’re in a position to be snarky, kiddo.
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Welcome to Lemmy for the last reddit users, that used old.reddit, looks like we are complete now. The rest of reddit are noobs and bots.
I came here three years ago when they killed the API and Reddit is Fun on mobile. I refuse to use their mobile site but still used their desktop. If they kill old.reddit I guess I’m done then.
You can do it. Just delete your account. I did it. I live without Reddit now, and I’m happy. After a while you won’t miss that cesspool
Same here.
BTW: technically they just killed it.
Same here but when they killed Joey App. But I haven’t gone back for anything and refuse to use it at all. It’s so bad every time my wife shows me shit on there.
Same as me, except I never went back. I don’t spend as much time here as I used to on reddit, but most of that was wasted time anyway.
Used Lemmy for a while but still browsed reddit logged out a bit. I noticd this recently so its only Lemmy now.
BTW: there is libredirect browser extension which redirects Reddit to libreddit instances.
I am saying this, so people use that instead of giving up and logging in.
Nope, not listening. I am using the increased friction as a reason for giving up and not using reddit at all.
Yeah that’s even better. I think the libreddit code could perhaps be used to also to help bootstrap some communities on Lemmy (by just posting the same links).
Or maybe that’s already happening?
Now that sort of thing could be more useful
Fuck reddit.
If you need the old info download the archive. 99% of anything newer than 3 years is going to be bot slop. There’s zero reason to go to reddit intentionally.
Agree.
Most of it sure, but there are still some active subreddits with human involvement I wish would switch to Lemmy.
Same. I have 1 or 2 subreddits I check for info/advice that I wish would just migrate over here. It just isn’t worth opening the reddit app and dealing with the worst of humanity being pushed on me anymore.
It’s why I moved onto Lemmy. I can’t stand new Reddit.
For me it was the API changes that was the final straw. 3 years ago.
I don’t use Lemmy as much as I did Reddit. But I’ve also never missed Reddit.
God, was that really 3 years ago?
I know right
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Probably a good thing, honestly. We all need to be more offline anyways.
Same. Just joined as old and new Reddit have login walls now
I knew it was over when the CEO payed himself 200 million the year before it went public (or whatever) he basically looted the fucking place cause he knew it’d be worthless soon after
Reddit sucks but this is asinine. The stock is down ~35% this year but still up almost 250% since ipo.
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!
You’re actually joining at a good time. When i created my account it was one post every few hours haha
Yeah, it’s quite active now, how exciting! I started browsing it just like I did RedReader last night and it didn’t feel like I was missing out on news or conservations. Also I like the Boost UI in some ways more than RedReader’s, so I’m sure that’s helping make the transition easier lol. Reddit really shot itself in the foot destroying all the popular 3rd party apps, reddit is fun was my beloved. RedReader is nice to have still available, but it honestly doesn’t hold a candle to rif’s nice UI/UX. Boost being basically on par with rif for me is making letting go of reddit all the more easier.
I created a new account a year ago to lurk instead of comment, but you’re right, participation = growth. I’ll be joining in again.
I’m sick of reddit. I’ve been banned three times for calling out Nazis. Nazis don’t get banned though
Same. I said “fuck republicans” and got ‘permanently suspended’… which is just the dumbest thing in itself
Meanwhile in r/hornymoderators:
"Fuck Republicans! Come enjoy of my disaster of a human body, conservative ladies! Runners up will be invited to my pool of hand stuff volunteering until my double carpal tunnel surgery someday.
I got banned for saying something about Musk during the height of the DOGE circus. I don’t know what I said exactly because they delete the comment and then ban you.
I think I said I’d like to see him test his rocket and go to Mars. Which, I guess implies,… something.
I criticized ICE, and about 12 hours later I was met with a “Blocked by network security” page. The only option was to appeal to support, who wanted an explanation. I could still access my user settings so I went straight to the account deletion option.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
ENJOYING THIS REDDIT DOWNFALL? CONTINUE ON THE APP! Or else…
Okthxbai
Reddit being absolutely horrendous is what moved me to this site. I wish there was more people and more prominent communities though.
More people means more people! Most of us didn’t like people!
Honestly reddit went shit when everyone knew about it. You got mainstream shit that you could get on Facebook too. Don’t wish for more people! This makes it more fun and you can keep up.
Interestingly enough, old.reddit users are in the single digit percentages:
Even if they weren’t hostile towards old.reddit (the ads are far less invasive and effective), they could make a strong argument for not wanting to support a dwindling, tiny userbase.
I’ve moderated a subreddit for about 15 years now, it’s built up to ~40K members and ~100K visitors per week, ~1M views per month, and over 95-99% of that traffic is mobile (varies by the day). New Reddit (desktop) runs 0.5-3%, and old.reddit doesn’t even register in the bar graphs. Still, my shortcuts all go to old.reddit.com - and not just for moderation, but it’s also how I browse reddit.com.
If they cut off my old.reddit.com interface, I’ll likely abandon my moderator’s post - no telling what happens to that community after that happens.
What percentage of old reddit contributes though? The 90-9-1 rule.
Before the IPO, close to 100% of old.reddit likely contributed. For submitting, the old.reddit interface had better options for the experienced user. It was faster and easier to submit complex longer comments and posts.
The interface isn’t that great for reading comments/post. The third party phone apps did it better.
Besides you had to have a tiny bit of experience with the platform to know how to find that setting. Not something most casual readers who hit the site via a search engine would know to do.
Since the IPO it’s likely mostly few old-timers checking the niche subs. Probably very little engagement. Honestly, it’s likely still around because of some critical tool for moderators or bots that would be extremely expensive to upgrade. Definitely not because they care about the user.
Probably why the quality of posts seems to have gone down (IMO) and the quantity of bot posts has gone way up recently too. It basically turned to shit shortly after the IPO. When I saw an add for reddit on TV I knew it’s in peak enshittify mode.
Does old.reddit come up as mobile if used on a smart phone?
Don’t abandon the subreddit. Make a new one here. Then lock the subreddit with a pinned post pointing to the new Lemmy one.
There’s an interesting thing about scale… At 40K subscribers (collected over 15 years), my subreddit is pretty small niche. I tried duplicating it on the Digg reboot last year (yes, Digg sucked, sucks, and will continue to suck for the foreseeable future, but it was an informative experiment anyway)… because the niche is so narrow, and the Digg user base was so small, it never flipped over into growth mode. I’d promote it, get a couple of posts and a couple of subscribers, then crickets. After several rounds of that I walked away from new Digg. Meanwhile, on reddit with its billion+ users, 100 million+ active daily, the narrow niche continues to grow and because it has enough content contributing users, it’s not my personal soap box, it’s a truly user maintained community. But, that 90-9-1 rule definitely applies, probably even more skewed in my experience: 40K subscribers, probably less than 40 occasionally active content posters - an average of maybe 4 new posts per day, but… 40 posters are enough to keep the 40K engaged and growing.
Well, it’s nice you want to support Reddit with your group.
It’s not like even 1% of them would migrate to another platform.
I used python to write a program that bypasses the login prompt and displays the site in a wrapper that’s identical to old reddit. It’s honestly been kind of fun adding in features that were removed from the site years ago. Fuck spez and fuck all of his admins.
Revanced has the pirated version of the app, gives full premium features too.
I used that until I got banned for saying nazis deserve to be dead lmao
So now as mainly a lurker I am stuck to coding out of spite.
Reddit thinks they’re an exclusivity club nowadays. Love that mentality for them, just a platform full of bots, misinformation purposed for political polarization.
They wouldn’t even let me delete my account last week, “errors occured” so I just uninstalled. Good riddance.
I’m so happy they started doing this. They made me want to really start switching to Lemmy
Yeah, same. I already had an account on Lemmy but kept going back occasionally. This really pushed me away completely.
Fuck Spez -> Redlib allows you to view without logging in. Here’s a list of other instances on github.
That content is effectively public property at this point, and we created it. We should have access to it.
There is libredirect browser extension that allows to rotate between the instances offloading load (I think safereddit.com has highest because the URL is easy to change.
