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  • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Nice. That is just enough of a barrier to stop be using reddit entirely. Not posted in years but sometimes read when bored enough.

    • lepthesr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Same, I’m 100% here now.

      I still lurked since the api bs and after close to 20 yrs on reddit they pull this crap. They can get fucked.

      • Goforce5@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Exactly why I’m here. I used RIF exclusively for a decade, then they killed it. I suffered with their browser version, but now they killed r/all and I ditched for good.

  • Soulphite@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Cant even read posts on the browser without being interrupted about a minute in saying to use their stupid fucking app. Reddit is trash.

    • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      2 months ago

      “request desktop site” usually gets rid of the app nag.

      I never post there anymore but there’s a lot of useful stuff from the old days.

          • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Welcome to A/B rollouts.

            The idea is that instead of making a sweeping change for every single user, you roll a feature/system/UI update, etc out to a small number of users, to see how effective it is. It gives you time to see how those users react to it, how they interact with it, how it impacts their broader site usage, etc… And then once they have had time to gather some feedback and work out the bugs, they push it out to the rest of the users.

            Most big tech companies use A/B rollouts nowadays. YouTube, Meta, Reddit, TikTok, etc all give users access to different updates at different times. Because it allows them to gauge how their users are actually interacting with the updates before they accidentally tank their entire system with a bad update.

            For new features, it can also give the company time to properly scale their backend systems to accommodate a new feature. For instance, when Tiktok rolled out images in comments, they likely had to do some work on the backend to ensure their systems could handle the added load of suddenly downloading a bunch of images any time a user opened a comment section. By phasing the rollout in multiple steps, they didn’t have to upgrade all of their systems up front before making the feature available to some/most users.

            Using this post as an example, imagine if there was a bug that didn’t allow users to log in after they got this prompt. Or didn’t allow logged in users to access the site, because it kept redirecting them back to this page. Or it allowed users to continue browsing without a login, as long as they were in Dark Mode. Or any number of other potential weird issues that could arise. The A-users are essentially pushed into beta testing the new feature, before the B-users get the update. In this case, you’re simply a B-user who hasn’t been scheduled to get the update yet.

          • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            You have a short while left. I heard about this a few weeks ago and just started getting the block today.

    • GroundedGator@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Hopefully I stay on the unblocked side of old. Though I keep adding things like ?utm=fuckspez to the urls

    • Maiq@piefed.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I went one step further. uBlacklist works wonders from removing reddit from search results. No point in seeing results from a site that won’t let me in.

      • ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.hostEnglish
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        2 months ago

        If you host a SearXNG instance you can replace Reddit links with Redlib links, just add this to your settings.yaml.

         hostnames:
   replace:
     '(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': 'lib.your.domain'
     '(.*\.)?redd\.it$': 'lib. your.domain'
      • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Porque no los dos? Of course don’t feed reddit with content for them to sell, or aimlessly browse the frontpage. If you need information on a niche subject, or refer to something that happened in 2011, don’t burden yourself to avoid reddit. Just set yourself to be in read only mode with ad blockers to the max so you get more from them then they get from you.

      • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I use both redlib and piefed on a daily basis.

        I haven’t logged in to reddit for years, but there’s loads more content there for niche topics.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It is still unfortunately the go-to landing spot for basically any “I’m having an obscure tech issue and only one person posted about this specific error code six years ago” type of search.

      • ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.hostEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It’s clear that Redlibs maintainer is burnt out, as were the LibReddit folks who developed and maintained it initially before it was forked. Software like this is an endless cat and mouse chase, Reddit break something, the community works around it, rinse and repeat.

        It’s why we don’t see Bibliogram around anymore, Instagram made their APi unbearable to work with.

        In regard to the difficulty of keeping a Redlib instance alive, currently most of the discussion occurs in one issues post on GitHub, and people have suggested other docker images that currently work.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, fuck Reddit, but there’s a lot of good information up there, even if it’s currently run by paedophiles. People who were on Twitter before Elon Musk bought it still enjoy their communities even though the site is owned by an AI company that generates CSAM.

      • mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Why does every discussion, especially on Lemmy, eventually turn into “it’s run by a pedophile” or “it’s owned by billionaires”?

        Reddit is a publicly traded company. Steve Huffman is still the CEO. From what I can tell, the largest shareholders include Tencent and Advance Publications, along with various institutional investors.

        Could there be pedophiles working at those companies or individuals who own Reddit stock? Maybe. That’s true of practically any large corporation. It doesn’t mean Reddit is “run by pedophiles.”

        And for the love of God, can we stop bringing up Elon Musk every five minutes? I’m exhausted by people forcing him into conversations that have nothing to do with him. Whether you love him or hate him, not every discussion needs to revolve around the same handful of public figures.

        My problem isn’t with criticizing Reddit. Criticize the company all you want when it’s deserved. My problem is replacing factual criticism with lazy slogans and guilt-by-association. If you’re going to criticize a company, criticize what it actually does, not some cartoon version of who you imagine owns or controls it.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Why does every discussion, especially on Lemmy, eventually turn into “it’s run by a pedophile” or “it’s owned by billionaires”?

          It’s the jerk. Everything is the fault of billionaires (never mind that they actually don’t own most stuff), and every billionare has all possible negative personality traits.

          Occasionally, we manage to have actual intelligent conversations, in between all the huffing our own upvotes.

        • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Okay, so if you were to get banned from Reddit because you said that paedophiles should face harsher legal consequences, you wouldn’t think that maybe the site is run by paedophiles? So maybe you appeal, maybe you caught one bad apple, but then it’s upheld by a second one. Then I think it’s absolutely fair to say the site is run by paedophiles. And I think that’s deserved.

          True, you didn’t have all the facts. I’m not gonna tell the story every single time. So maybe that’s on me. Maybe you feel like I pulled a bait and switch.

          It sounds like you’re just tired of hearing about the bad shit the ruling elite do. Not much for that, I’m afraid.

          • mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I think who financially owns a company is largely irrelevant, whether they’re saints or pedophiles. In this case, reducing the discussion to “immoral billionaires” or mythical dragons hoarding wealth misses the point entirely.

            Reddit is a publicly traded social media and news aggregation platform with ownership spread across institutional investors, including a major publishing conglomerate and a large Chinese technology company. The possibility that some wealthy individuals connected to those organizations may be immoral is, to me, one of the least interesting aspects of the discussion. There are far more substantive issues surrounding Reddit’s ownership, governance, moderation policies, business incentives, and corporate structure than the personal character of people at the very top.

            For example, if someone is banned after criticizing a public figure, what is the more plausible explanation? That Reddit is deliberately protecting a specific pedophile because of who they are, or that moderators or administrators are enforcing a political or ideological preference? The latter strikes me as vastly more likely. If you’re trying to explain why moderation decisions happen, political bias or inconsistent enforcement is a much more convincing explanation than a coordinated effort to shield particular criminals.

            Focusing on whether a billionaire somewhere in the ownership chain is a bad person is like criticizing cars because they produce CO₂. It’s true, but it’s so obvious and commonplace that it contributes very little to understanding the actual issue.

      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Well luckily (for now) you can still read any posts there without logging in if you follow the link from a search engine.

        If you are looking for a specific post copying the address into google and clicking on it from there for instance will get you the reddit post without logging in.

        • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          2 months ago

          OP showed a screenshot for old.reddit.com which is the older UI from ~2014. I have a rewrite rule in an extension that turns all reddit links into this to get the better old UI even when clicking through from a search engine result, and got the same message a few hours ago.

          • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I literally just did it to make sure you could before I posted this. It still works as of this post.

            Click on the link inside of that link and boom no login. (you may need “old reddit redirect” I don’t know what extension you are using to reach old reddit)

            https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?q=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2FScrubs%2Fcomments%2F1suzx8j%2Fthe_scrubs_reboot_is_the_best_example_of_a_show%2F&cat=web&language=english

            • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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              2 months ago

              hmmm, maybe it’s the extension that’s not passing the referrer information in my case? I am using “Old Reddit Redirect”. The URL in that search result still shows www.reddit.com when I hover over the link, and when I open it and the browser extension changes the URL to old.reddit.com which is where I get the login prompt.

              I guess other extensions might rewrite the link destination, but then that would require more access to the extension to read/write the contents of every site visited, which is too much for me.

              • __hetz@mas.to
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                2 months ago

                @Davel23

                End of last month they announced a login would be required even to just view old dot reddit. At the moment it seems like they might be A/B Testing it. A handful of people are still reporting that old dot works, but myself and many others can no longer access it - being redirected to a login prompt.

                “Oh well,” I say. I won’t be creating an account.

                (Supposedly the RSS is still accessible. You might look into that. I’m considering scripting up something I can throw a URL into that gets the useful info out - for the occasions when Reddit is a top result for a tech question or the like.)

      • Blibly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        There’s so many niche communities I used to rely on Reddit for. Bike commuting, DIY, sous vide recipes. I like this place but it’s just not the same. And I feel like once it starts getting to the same size it will get enshittified like everything else. Ugh

  • eezeebee@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The Firefox extension Old Reddit Redirect works great. However, fuck Reddit.

    • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      at least it did because that’s the one i had and it still blocked it; agree reddit is garbage but half the links in search lead to it so when you’re trying to find something, it kinda sucks not being able to access it.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Looks like they still support RSS.

    The app and new reddit are absolute garbage. I’d even call it hostile design. Always has been. Ugh.

  • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Logging in makes reddit safe?

    Trying to figure out how read only access while not logged in makes anything unsafe my brain hurt.

    • DarkwingDuck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That’s difficult when searching for discussion relating to technical issues. Even without adding “site:reddit.com” it comes up with higher quality information in comments from like 7 years ago.

  • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    At the end of June they announced this would be rolling out “over the next month”. So anyone who can still use old reddit without logging in could still run into it soon.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The bullshit factory made bullshit

    Well, yeah? Already for a decade now, and they’re quite good at it, but what is the news here?