• friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    Who cares. Reddit is dead to me, and spez murdered it.

    Reddit was amazing. I will always enjoy and fondly remember what it was like before Spez fucked up one of the most reputable cultures and brands in internet history. Fuck that guy… just… what a fucking shithead to destroy something so wonderful.

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      It’s going to take years, but Lemmy will kill Reddit. People like authenticity. Reddit will lose authenticity as it antagonizes its user base through its monetization efforts.

      A core group of people who value that authenticity above all else migrated after Reddit betrayed its values this past summer. They will be the early adopters of this brand new community. It’s happened before on the internet. People hate bullshit. They want to connect with real people that have good intentions and are good faith contributors, free of the influence of investors trying to monetize those relationships.

    • GingaNinga@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      I just wanna look at memes, cats, and news and hang out in the comment section without being exposed to ads, is that too much to ask?I hope their IPO sucks and they get shorted i to oblivion while they bleed off users month over month, because thats whats going to happen if they keep pulling this sort of stuff.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    Just replace “www” with “old”. I just use a Firefox addon that does that automatically after seeing that nonsense the other day.

  • Chozo@kbin.social
    2·
    7 months ago

    I get this even when signed in. Reddit really doesn’t like VPNs at all these days.

  • centof@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    Change the url to old. instead of www. and you can bypass it.

    • r00ty@kbin.life
      2·
      7 months ago

      I love that this is the solution to all the logged-out user crap they’ve pulled lately.

      Alas, I suspect it means they will drop old. in the near future.

      • centof@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        It also works with nsfw content they put behind an appwall.

        YoU HaVe tO UsE tHe ApP To ViEw ThIs CoNteNt.

        STFU with that BS.

  • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    I think there is something there to start a conversation about how messed up the Internet is these days.

    Walls are being placed up all over. Security teams are always freaking out and checks that charge the guest are being put up just to track people going in and out.

    I think we have finally hit the breaking threshold of everyone getting online and gated communities are the only way people want to exist in the web now. I mean how many times has Lemmy been DDOS’d already on several instances. Scrapers are everywhere trying to steal data for any and all purposes.

    As much as we may not like it for people that want a pleasant experience without effort entrance tickets might actually need to start being made to let people into the world’s largest circus we ever made.

    • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      7 months ago

      come on we all go to reddit when we need to find some information because its almost always guaranteed to be there

      Most of us dumped Reddit when third party apps went away. I personally haven’t been back to Reddit since creating a Lemmy account. Screw that place; they don’t deserve my patronage anymore. Or anyone’s, for that matter. Continuing to use their content is justifying their shitty business practices. It’ll never get better if people keep enabling it.

      Also, what specific info are you searching for that Reddit can provide? Their search function has always been garbage. Or are you referring to general content and/or subs that don’t have an active userbase here yet?