Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.
The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”
The Reddit employee wrote:
Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in.
1 Jul 2026 03:53
Do I have to login to use Lemmy? No, no I do not.
1 Jul 2026 04:01
Hopefully this will be the push I need to quit Reddit.
1 Jul 2026 04:24
Bruh you don't even have to be using lemmy to use lemmy. I seen people all the time up in here.
1 Jul 2026 04:30
I've been using RedReader to view the 2-3 subreddits that don't have an equivalent here on Lemmy. Hope those still work...
1 Jul 2026 05:29
Darn. Old Reddit is the last way to access NSFW subreddits without logging into Reddit.
1 Jul 2026 05:38
Yeah, this will be quite a loss… genuinely a shame. It sucks that we can’t scrape and rebuild a copy of the whole site…
1 Jul 2026 05:58
I think redreader has official permission to use the API because it has a disability focus.
1 Jul 2026 06:27
And my axe!
Sorry its a old one.
Thas the best thing about the fediverse. As long as your on, you can communicate with others.
1 Jul 2026 06:44
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