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Yeah screw this. When this change goes live, I'm gonna stop contributing to Reddit at all. I already refuse to login on mobile, and if I can't even access the site there, there's no reason to help them on desktop either.

I genuinely hope an alternative becomes popular soon, ideally a federated or decentralised one that doesn't have any of these risks associated with it.

I got pissed off enough to create one [1], now it’s “just” about making it gain users. I plan to make it the support matrix for my autovectorising compiler [2] as a start, and try and grow organically from there.

Both the server (x86_64) and the client (wasm32) are entirely written in xc, so there’s some justification :)

1: https://blewit.net/sandbox

2: https://compile-xc.org/compiler/

Lemmy?

The final nail. I was an avid Redditor for the first few years but dropped off when the hive mind started taking over. Today, I just read some movie and music/feedback on there. Nothing worth making an account for.

Bold move. Although, I don't think "bold" is what they need where they are going. What's up with these guys? You have something and you wanna turn it into nothing. Just take the site down it will be far less painful.

Aren't shareholders interested in how RDDT is doing?

It's not bold, it's courageous, as Sir Humphrey Appleby would put it.

Like with TXitter (which seems to show one tweet, or a bit more) I will simply not see Reddit information anymore. Thanx for all the fish I guess. Tbh the web UI (except for old.reddit) was already horrible enough to annoy the S out of me whenever I landed on it.

Reddit going the way of stackoverflow? Such a huge portion of posts on any city subreddit are direct or indirect content/submarine marketing.

This seems to kind of mirror the move by Discord to make public messages discoverable.

It's already been required for years, if you use a VPN or happen to live in the wrong place according to them. Either way, the site lost any usefulness it may have ever had after it stopped allowing you to see whether the person writing something is a regular of /r/piss and drinking their own.

That admin straight lying about entire UX and reddit design, it has been cancer since old.reddit.com. It's so bad that made me stop using years ago, I only check now and then.

Reddit should stop existing soon, just like quora, orkut, digg and many others.

It has been going downhill for quite some time. The more recent flood of AI bots and now this change may be the last two nails in the coffin.

Blame Google and its AI summaries. Not so easy or practical for the rest of us to put our sites behind a login.

This allows them to better fingerprint users for advertising. Anything else is just smokescreen. More and more sites are doing this for just that reason.

I doubt this is the sole reason. Their search referrals are going down and logged out DAU in US dropped. They are looking for ways to convert casual visitors in regular users and make it harder for AI scrapers to access the data. It’s a business after all that’s being cannibalized by another business.

I'm not against it. Hopefully it will reduce the AI slop a bit and make Reddit better

How could it possibly affect the content when you needed to login to vote or interact with anything anyways?

and it's not like authentifying via API is challenging

few accounts, few IPs and we're right back to where we started, which should illustrate the purpose of this change quite clearly.

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