Going by comments in the post, the required login is coming in waves, so not all people may notice immediately.
Still, as Reddit is strong-arming its way across, maybe worth signaling to people there that the fediverse may be used without an account, so long as there’s even one instance that implements logged-out view as the protocol allows it?
I don’t have access to my account any longer, possibly VPN ban, though I never tried to recover it so I can only guess why mine is lost, else I’d post myself.
I haven’t posted on Reddit since they killed third-party apps. Funny thing is, I was a paid subscriber for years before they did that.
Here to be the change I want to see in the world. Go Lemmy.
Going by comments in the post, the required login is coming in waves, so not all people may notice immediately.
It appears this has become the tried & tested means of choice to minimize pushback. Users frogs in slowly boiling water.
Most real place? Jeez, my gf is realer than that lol
Reddit is turning into orange Facebook at this point.
We definitely need the 1.0 release of Lemmy now more than ever… Keep up the good work devs btw!
Yay devs!
Any pushing you can do is probably not going to help. Last time it was some API shit that actually generated a small amount of outrage enough to move a small amount of people. Apathy, habit and lock-in will tend to defeat that, so unless this gets people at least as pissed as whatever the API thing was, I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Also, y’know, reddit… maybe it’s just as well.
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google prioritizes reddit, because reddit allows google to scrape for AI and datamining.
Finally came over to Lemmy and found this place when the news of age vertificarion started spreading around, along with the annoying pop us of signing it to view the sight. Plus I got tired of how dead and full of bots it was, what makes Reddit think I would want to come back?? 😑
I think bots are inevitable here as well. I think the only thing that keeps them away is how small Lemmy is.
If Lemmy ever became worth anything i dont know how they could effectively counter bots in the age of AI.
defederating with spam instances and hand approving new accounts is how I’d do it. we have years of lessons from email spam we can apply. I suspect that we should start working on this now while there isn’t much of a problem
Meh, leave them be, if people are interested they will find Fediverse.
Diffusion of innovation theory might apply here
Good thing piefed.social is following in reddits footsteps! Oh wait that’s really bad
I’m out of the loop. What are they doing…?
Trying to recreate a worse version of reddit karma and locking their instance behind a login page/requiring an account to view anything
I just opened piefed.social in a private window and it works fine
Was not like that yesterday
slightly less worst than fb, fb would block people unless they login.(there is a workaround with ublock though.
CCP-style shadow profiling, among other things.
If someone sees an instance requiring an account to do anything on they’ll think anything using that software will require one.
Also almost like the point isn’t about if you can host it yourself or there are other instances when the main dev is literally doing what everyone is angry reddit is doing 🤔
Oh, this is about the login wall?
lol that was just a temporary measure to fend off the scrapers. They’ve been really bad the last couple of weeks, especially.
I’m testing out a custom-built Anubis now, that should mean we can do without a login wall.
datamining perhaps, i would be wary too.
In what way?
You know, the ways you’ve been told. Are you this dense?
I can’t say otherwise you would call it harassment and push for all instances to ban me/anyone else that explains it again
old.reddit.com actually stopped working entirely for me today, logged in or not.
The enshittification will continue until every user is gone.
I deleted mine. Since there was no “delete all posts” button I used bot that edited all into gibberish. It was funny watching countless private messages from multiple communities begging me not to do it this way. Apparently it makes moderation difficult or something.
Thank you for taking the time to salt the earth before leaving. It is important to cause as much headache as possible for the moderators over there while sunsetting an account. I never really contributed anything on reddit so the bridge I burned was via the report button. It felt like hurling turds into a cesspit for someone else to deal with until I got banned. A turd too far.
It’s not even about moderation, I couldn’t care less about the mods. It was reddit that wanted me to manually click ‘delete’ button on every single one of my 10k comments from last 13 years, each individually - which is just massively disrespectful. So I used a bot. Free version of the bot was editing into gibberish, paid version offered full deletion. I couldn’t care less, just used free version and watched the mayhem. They’re free to ban me, report me to admins for breaking ToS, whatever. It would be actually funny if they banned a deleted acocunt.
One of the last straws of disrespect was reddit demanding age verification for me to look at my own post history. It’s enshitification all the way.
It’s wild Reddit doesn’t have a hard deletion of UGC under GDPR rights. If they have a OneTrust portal etc I would love to use it
God I hope the fediverse gets bigger than it is now
I don’t want to be mean but Reddit has a fuckload of really niche and weird interests and hobbies that I happen to be in that lemmy just doesn’t have.
Doesn’t even need to be niche. There are no active major sports communities, much less local teams, which is about the only pleasure I get from browsing that place anymore through Redlib instances. Among others, BSky built cachet from sports journalists adopting the platform. Attracting a core of these otherwise apolitical mainstream interests may be necessary to kick start the network effect.
Aside, I would say it’s ironically the more peculiar cultures I’ve hung around that never had Reddit or Discord supplant their surviving forums and chat servers that are doing the best these days in consistent quality engagement. While I think the post and threaded comment format inherited from Digg is adequate for news and current events, I hope slower-paced subs seeking to migrate seriously consider if they’d be better served by a different kind of service too.
Start posting then buddy
God I hope the fediverse gets bigger than it is now
Haven’t checked your post history so saying that generically, but hope must be accompanied by action. So to those that have the same feeling, I invite to look for ways they can help.
There were many art subs that I followed that I don’t have the skill, imagination, or time to create and post on. There were many technical subs that I enjoy reading about but know almost nothing about.
Many people don’t have time or energy to prepare and share things online, or don’t like sharing online, let alone the skill to create the things they would like to read about. There are many types of people in the world with different capacities for different things. Sometimes commenting is the only way some people feel they can participate. Sometimes it’s only voting.
No, no pushing. If they come here, read it and like it, they’ll stay.
We’re open, you don’t need accounts. (unlike all of those google searches that are worth shit now.)
If they don’t, let them move on to bsky or threads or whereever they want.
Move to the Lemmy or Piefed ASAP. At least then you not only have more freedom generally, eg. if you don’t like one instance or vice-versa, you could move to another, but you can also host your own if you have the hardware and the admin chops for it.
For now you could still read Reddit with one of the few Redlib instances that are still active left, but even then it’s a matter of time before that’s blocked.
I killed my Reddit account the moment they announced they were going to be pushing more censorship last year and I haven’t looked back. Figured that I might as well leave that sinking ship before I’m inevitably banned for something stupid on there, because had I stayed on Reddit, I would’ve been banned for some stupid made-up offense eventually. Basically, my reasoning boiled down to…
I’m leaving this place one way or another, I might as well leave on my own now before I’m forced out later.
most of was forced out because they were purging a and shadowbanning like crazy. people thought there was no end to it, reddit only slowed down because they realize they were losing engagement to many actual users, and exposing more bots to take over the sites.
Reddit is dead to me. I blocked them at the router at my house. I should redirect them to a landing page that says simply.
“Don’t be a sucker”
