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Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.

The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”

The Reddit employee wrote:

Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Stop Using the Bad Site. Just stop doing it.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 17 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

I did for two years. This place is great so long as you like talking about trump, tech and trek. Anything involving special interests outside of those though, Reddit has it.

Reddit was so surprised I was back it assumed my account was compromised and permananned me.

My VPN use probably didn't help either

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

they ban you even if go too hard on trump. people arnt just seeing the astroturfing for trump on reddit. after the election, it was very chaotic on reddit, they were banning people left and right spez was definitely cleaning house for IPO, and to appease the gop once he fully came to power last year. spez acted everytime musk ask him to ban people.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

FYI lemmy.world is hostile to VPNs too; I just had to switch servers because it wouldn't let me post a comment due to VPN use.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

This happens to me a lot. I have a user ID and password, what does it matter that I'm using a vpn to post a comment?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 6 hours ago

seems like dbzero is also very hostile, wierdly havnt been on most of those communities, but im banned there for some reason. did tankies take over that instance.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Reddit was so surprised I was back it assumed my account was compromised and permananned me.

Reddit is Ground Zero for Empty Internet Theory.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 6 hours ago

seems like its been dead internet for a few years, spez just stupidly made it more obvious by banning so many people, i think this is why he switch to shadowbans, less people notice, and not too many will complain. since people, bot owners wont notice until its much later.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

What's your special interests?

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 11 points 20 hours ago

Specific games I like

Local (and I do mean local) discussion

Brewing

Caravanning

Car stuff (communities around the specific make/model of car I own)

Etc...

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
  1. My city's subreddit is very active (though the moderators recently went mad with power). I'm actively stealing their content to grow the Lemmy community for it.

  2. People talk about legal stuff a lot on Reddit, including asking (ex-)cops questions about them (because lots of (ex-)cops use Reddit).

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

city tankies are pretty bad. my citys sub has been taken over by "tankies of the city", and conservatives too. like people asking for specific questions: fare tickets, jury duty, you get a holier than thou response.