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.
This is presumably because they’ve been boosting their anonymous agitator account with their profiles set to private, and there are tools out there that reveal said hidden comments like arctic-shift which I assume utilise old.reddit. They are trying so desperately to curate a rightwing majority narrative that simply isn’t true.
What do you mean try? They are not desperate. They just are doing it. On every platform. The left is absolute cooked. There is no defense from the left against this. The left saw the writing on the wall and shot themselves in the foot over this decades ago. Now the right have the tools that the left used and because the left gave out to capitalism and profit seeking, the right was able to co-opt the platforms and use those same tools to accomplish a hostile takeover. Just wait until the kids today who experience the internet and the views spread on these platforms become adults. Maybe we can make some bean and moth memes until then.
This is short-term thinking. We’ve got the far-right in my country (Not the US) starting to flail at scrutiny, we’ve got Trump’s attempting to rig the midterms hitting roadblock after roadblock after roadblock. We’ve got civil disobedience, sabotage, subtle dissent increasing in volume and frequency throughout the western world. Outside of the US the far-right is emboldened by the regime but its increasingly looking like trump’s got no clothes.
The only reason things appear ‘cooked’ for now, is because of the massive sums of money from the Epstein-adjacent tech overlords desperately trying to escape scrutiny, trying to buy out and control the narrative but it just ain’t happening… Bubble’s fit to burst.
Choose hope.
I got shadow banned like for been 2 months still I am and can’t even get karma up as people won’t see my comments so I just use that red alien for surfing and watching people comments that’s it 👾
yeah, this is the first of several steps to killing old reddit. And good riddance. I hope the whole company burns.
I regret every time I revisit Reddit. Them shutting down old.reddit will certainly keep me from ever going back. It’ll be a blessing in disguise for me.
I was addicted to reddit for over 10 years when they shutdown the RIF app. At first I felt like an addict detoxing and it hurt. but now I can look back at those times and say good riddance to Reddit.
I still enjoy this format of social media, and therefore use Lemmy a lot. It’s clear there’s no algorithm or bots upvoteing trying to make me angry or keep me on the site. There’s less bots here trying to steer the conversation or promote their product. I’m happy with Lemmy. Fuck reddit to death.
Honestly, Lemmy has been good for me in some ways because it isn’t as popular and doesn’t have the deep niche communities reddit has that I was super active in.
I get more accomplished now because I essentially “finish” my Lemmy browsing and move on, whereas reddit always had something else for me to dive into.
Yup.
‘Boredom’ is important. The various endless scroll platforms are not good, for a great number of us at least.
I’m the same with you. I was on reddit nearly since the beginning. It was my entire social life, well, mostly. As soon as they killed off TPA, I don’t bother anymore. obligatory, fuck spez.
Enshitifcation everywhere!
No need Reddit, in the moment to verify my ID, delete Reddit.
Just got this email from reddit:
We’re writing to let you know that starting 24 June 2026, we are changing how users in the European Union (EU) access certain parts of the platform to comply with EU laws.
If we determine you may be under 18 years old, you will need to verify your age before you can view mature (NSFW) content or communities. Learn more about how we determine age and verification options here.
All teen accounts in the EU will also automatically be switched to the most protective, private experience. Depending on your age, here is how your settings will look:
Ages 13–15: Features like Chat, Followers and Profile discoverability will be locked to the most protective settings. These cannot be changed. Ages 16–17: These same features will default to the most protective settings automatically, but you have the option to change them in your Settings.
If you have questions, please visit Reddit Help. - Reddit
Would be funny if they mark my account as teen when some of my nude images have been on there for years^^
They want your ID because they’re legally forced to. A VPN will fix it.
ive been saying they want to become facebook, Full ID(DRIVERS license) and facial recognition. eventually. plus they want to train googles ai models or openail.
So basically every link in Google will be login gated now?
Also easier to track users, incase they want to look for potential “bots”, GOOGLE is quite intimately intertwined with reddits operations.
What a sad day. The platform that exposed me to overseas opinions. 🫡
It was ICQ for me but this ain’t a grumpy old timer contest
STOP TALKING ABOUT REDDIT!
What the fuck is reddit?
Fuck you spez.
We really need a firefox addon to block reddit from google results automatically
uBlacklist
It works for those SEO spam sites too. You visit such a site, go back in history to your search engine, and in the result’s top right corner block the website. It’s neat. It doesn’t work by default with Qwant and you need to add some line in the settings that’s in one of the GitHub issues.
You can subscribe to Super-SEO-Spam-Suppressor to have it automagically updated too.
Also helpful? ublacklist-pinterest
Might as well not even use google 70% of the time though if you exclude reddit. I found before switching to DDG or Startpage that I would have to add reddit or site:reddit.com to my queries.
Seriously, what an odd take. The vast majority of questions simply cannot be answered these days if you exclude reddit from your search results. It used to not be this way. Something’s gotta give.
some very specific questions wont show up on other forums that reddit has, since most people from other forums/sites moved to reddit to start communities there, or niche content. outside of something like health related fourms, are still healthy, or something about evading SOCIAL media bot/spam detection methods.
i was used to be on other forums that largely died out or became less useful because reddit had most if not all the answers or discussions. remember the subreddit bans in the 2017ish-2018, i joined a international forum that they migrated to and left that one, as it started to deviate from the actual original subreddit it came from. it did replicate the UI of old reddit quite nicely though.
ok then i go to frontends. if that also shuts down, then bye bye reddit.
say bye anyway. spez and co don’t deserve your attention.
There are many instances of Redlib which can be used to sidestep reddit dot com. I’d recommend finding a few good ones if you find yourself getting info from reddit very often. Or better yet, host your own.
What I would like to know, though, is what is the best way to automatically use a Redlib instance whenever I click a reddit dot com link on my device. I have an app from f-droid called “sidestep” which works ok but not great. I’m looking for something which ideally works on both android and Linux.
I have Privacy Redirect on FF and added the redlib instance manually.
Good stuff, I’ll give it a try. The main issue I have with sidestep is it breaking navigation. If I want to use the back button to go from the redlib page back to my search results, Firefox just closes the tab
To be honest, I thought they already required that. They just want to keep killing their site, but people refuse to switch over to Lemmy, so niche communities only remain on Reddit and Discord. It’s very disheartening. People are morons. There, I said it.
