Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com

Hello from piefed

When they close old.reddit will be the best time to advertise the lemmy instances that use that similar looking theme by default

It's the mlmym frontend, rather than just a theme.

Some instances run it locally as an alternate at a different URL; lemmy.world is one such.

Oh you know old.reddit its next.

I can still log in after my mass banning. So I get all the subs I like (not mains, hobbies), they get no ad revenue as I adblock everything. They just get a BS stat that I was there and they killed off my engagement stats because of the frivolous ban.

Its like they can't see they are driving towards a cliff.

Yes, this is exactly my use case for Old Reddit. For obvious reasons, I use private browsing mode when viewing NSFW stuff. Private browsing mode does not retain my logged-in Reddit session, so that's where Old Reddit comes in.

abusive scraping

As opposed to the plain old scraping they do to train AI, and generate revenue by selling user comments for others to train AI.

I read a half-cocked internet theory that a certain someone might've purchased twitter just to gain access to an ex-gf's personal tweets. I judged it as possible but unlikely, as that's a lot of money to spend on such a thing.

Now, we've all heard stories about reddit blocking accounts for no published reason, and tracking folks down across accounts/IP addresses/etc. That code must be pretty expansive to do the things they've done. So one has the thought: if you've ever reached out to the reddit hive mind for some kind of support with a personal issue of any kind then that data about you is still floating around in their database and tied to whatever alternate accounts you have, even if it was the "good old days" when you did it.

Abusive scraping, my ass.

There's a website called Reddtastic that works great!

If I ever browsed Reddit that was the only method I used. Guess I’ll just not use it at all

Perfect timing. Today i received a mail that in a few weeks i have to verfiy my age. So now i have two reasons to delete the account.

That still only counts as one!

You can still visit - and scrape - the new Reddit without logging in, so the scraping is obviously just an excuse for what everyone saw coming from the start: the gradual complete shutdown of old Reddit.

worst part is fucking shadow bans

I use it while logged on to keep trying to sway people over to Lemmy, haha. After all, that's how I found this place...

Wow, I only knew of the `p.` subdomain, haha. This is great, thanks! That's hilarious that they copied the same subdomain, even... I wonder how to tell if an instance supports it apart from just blindly trying.

I love how the GitHub entry just calls it "a familiar desktop experience" and nothing more. Perfect. 👌🏻