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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
They login gated and banned the ability to criticize reddit on r/mildlyinfuriating. Reddit cucks
At least they help me to beat my Reddit addiction, thanks Reddit
They literally cut away their own ad revenue from me using their website, but hey - I can live with that. I'm definitely not creating an account over there, so Lemmy it is!
Make sure to auto repost some of their subs into one of the lemmy communities to kick pigboi even more.
It was the next logical step - old.reddit still allowed unauthorized clients to work. Now the garden is fully walled, and soon it shall be paved over.
Im going to either get ignored, or downvoted to hell but...
Bot control.
Their site is the only source the website can be read/scraped and with the influx of ai scrapers ignoring all bot rules they might want to try and kill that.
I havent seen the pop up yet, nor checked out the html dom, but i suspect they, like any website, are getting a huge influx of ai bots doing terrabytes and terrabytes of data transfers
I think they're also trying to pump up logged in unique visits for investors. They've been stagnant on those but non-logged in visits have been going up steadily. I think they're trying to convert a fraction of those visits into logged in accounts.
It’s why I moved to Lemmy - that and completely borking the site while using most VPNs. F-that. If you can’t allow my VPN, I know you’re wrong, not me.
welcome - on desktop a nice lemmy client is this: https://phtn.app/
you can run selfhosted.
on mobile - boost for lemmy is super nice for android.
fuck reddit
And they block Archive.org as well. They really are entitled and full of themselves to a ridiculous degree.
because they think they can make more money that way, and they don't care about the users even one little bit
To drive you away
Really? Well I guess I'm really never going back now
They're just following Facebook and Instagram. If anything, the surprise is them not doing so sooner.
All of their business decisions for the past few years have been centered around monetizing Reddit content as training data for machine learning models. Most likely this recent decision is an attempt to block data scraping.
Everything posted in the last few years should be considered poison anyway, so I don't know why anyone would pay for it to use as training data.
Why anyone would train an AI on Reddit is beyond me, the only worse platform I can think of is 4chan.
Volume, and breadth of subject material. For language model purposes the specific content isn't really important, it's the wide variety of language samples from many sources, all in the same data format. You could get similar samples from other platforms, but you'd have to compile them from multiple sources and then standardize them somehow for input as training data.
Because it has years of helpful troubleshooting guides, solutions to problems, and conversations. also there is an llm trained off 4chan, gpt-4chan.
It's gonna block sign ups. Why the fuck do I sign up without seeing shit?
Not like reddit is relevant these days.
Not like reddit is relevant these days.
Even within the lemmy user community people still occasionally refer to reddit because there isn't a better source for some things. Outside of lemmy, reddit is a household name alongside facebook, snapchat &etc; people who don't use it still know what it is. I think your conclusion is more aspirational than currently real.
The opacity is going to make the issue very real. A site like that goes stagnant without new blood.
Oh absolutely, I think that is already happening, but it hasn't reached broad public awareness yet. Reddit has 20 years of momentum, it won't stop all at once.
I suspect the company is aware that user engagement is dropping, along with the quality of new content. Typical of most corporations, their response is to play defensive, to try to maximize the value of what they already have, to scratch and claw and squeeze every drop from the existing data and userbase. This will accelerate the decline, obviously, but when a company is in this state they consider any strategy besides protectionism to be too high a risk.
They will ruin themselves with cowardice, to be sure, but they're still coasting on momentum for the moment. They will continue making the same types of decisions, at an accelerating pace, as the desperation sets in.
It doesn't need new blood. It needs infinite bots creating infinite content with no way to prove whether or not they're bots or humans.
Wouldn't you know it they've got it covered.
Line is definitely not going up.
The stock market is downvoting the fuck outta RDDT.
So they get another page view every time you have to refresh to see the content behind the pop-up.
If they wanted to force logins they'd grey out the text like newspaper websites do.
Simple, reddit just want lemmy to succeed, so they gave us another shot!
I browse reddit without logging in and with an adblocker. From their perspective, I'm a parasite using resources but contributing nothing; I'm proud of that.
And I am proud of you for that! Here here!
They're in the final 5 years of their business model.
I can't wait for the acquisition by private equity phase
FB will probably buy them.
Because business types eventually ruin everything.
Because they're assholes. They don't care about making a good product. They care about making money. Even though they already have a lot of money, they need more. No matter the cost.
I don't really understand why new reddit would generate more revenue than old reddit. This is kinda a baffling change all around.
Websites have to search for new revenue streams. They don't just walk into a corner of the internet and think "drat, someone already has a forum for that!" and walk away. They come up with some unique twist people won't have normally thought of and run with that until it stops working. See this guy's comment below:
With reddit they need to be able to show that their advertisers aren't just serving ads to bots (although we're seeing ads for bots now apparently). They have to prove a certain number of real human beings saw something thus the login requirement.
Now, people used old reddit because new reddit sucks. New reddit just shows you the top few posts, and makes you expand replies, thus proving you're something they can bill for. This also serves the purpose of pushing nuanced, long running discussion down to where people don't see it. Just look at the cat picture, upvote it, and move on.
And for the record reddit has been crap for a very long time. At least since whoever that lame ass admin was who went into the backend database and edited someone's raw post, and if not then, then Victoria getting the axe should've been a red flag to everyone that you weren't a member of reddit...not really. I know there were some local meetups in that timeframe. How awkward do you think the AMA local BBQ was? Do you think reddit cares?
You cannot assume that the people making decisions are rational, smart, people. They may believe falsehoods, and act accordingly. They may be chasing a hidden goal (eg: "I get a bonus if I hit X metric, so I'll kill good parts of the site to do it")
I worked at a place where management was like "we want to increase time on site", and the lead dev was like "I can just add loading spinners everywhere then". Luckily management was a little smarter and move involved than that, and didn't approve that strategy.
Soon you’ll not be able to use your computer without “logging in” (Giving ID)
ENSHITIFICATION
Who cares, fuck reddit, fuck Fart Huffmsn
Reddit is just Corporate. But you can browse reddit in Firefox with ublock and this custom script:
! 27 Jul 2026 https://www.reddit.com/
www.reddit.com###app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-direct > .bg-transparent
www.reddit.com##.rpl-bottom-sheet
! Prevent scroll locking scripts
www.reddit.com##+js(rc, rpl-scroll-lock|scroll-is-blocked, html, stay)
www.reddit.com##+js(rc, rpl-scroll-lock|scroll-is-blocked, body, stay)
www.reddit.com##+js(aeld, touchmove, preventDefault)
I don't want to anymore. Too much hustle
Then don't. I just presented a way to bypass corporate greed. And making the site usable again if you end up on it for research.
Quit using corporate social media.
I looked something up the other day and somehow found myself in a debate about political violence and got banned for saying violence against nazis is OK so fuck that website.
I said "fuck republicans"
I said something similar to that and got banned as well. so I said fuck it and came here much better here tbh.
Social media companies and self-destruction, name a more classic combination
The corporatocracy does not believe in the values of a open and free Internet. They have show us their hand over and over again. Why people keep playing when they know they will lose to the house is beyond me.
redlib.nadeko.net
Or any other frontend. Nadeko goes down somewhat often, but I've never failed to find a working frontend to switch to.
When I need to go to reddit for a niche community, I just go to old.reddit.com in Tor. Haven't had it fail yet. When it does, I'll officially be done with reddit.