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

Wow, I haven't seen that email. What country are you in, if I may ask?

Huh, I... didn't even think of that. I suppose people could download all the old content before this kicks in, at least, but yeah, that'll be the loss of new stuff moving forward, unless people can sway them over to nsfwlemmy.

Keep in mind that rystaf/mlmym has been last updated years ago. old.lemmy.world uses the FHF's fork, which has had a few fixes made to it.

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I actually have a fork of that fork at mschae23/mlmym which is significantly different (in terms of new features and bugfixes) from the others by now. In fact, this is what's deployed by your instance at old.lemmy.today

Though it unfortunately seems to be having issues with rate limits at the moment.
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Correct, RR has unusual exception because it's the only blind-friendly Reddit app (which is legitimately amazing at that). And then other apps like the forked Slide (which I use) piggyback off of it, pretending they're RR so that they can still function, too.

I feel like apart from niche communities, Lemmy now has critical mass to survive on its own!

It blows my mind when people don't acknowledge the legitimately cool corners of Reddit, like /r/FreeGameFindings. The content itself is not all bad there if you know where to look.

If only they'd integrate the RES features

How do you like it? I'm thinking about trying it out.

My browser clears all cookies from Reddit when I close it down. And every time I go to the new Reddit site, it auto logs me in with my Google account. In some other sites there's the annoying "log in with google account" popup at the top; it doesn't do anything if you don't click to log in. But Reddit doesn't ask. Just says: "Logging you in" and you can click cancel if you're fast enough.

They even auto create you an account if they do this for the first time.

Awhile ago they were also experimenting forcing mobile users to use the app

And now they're also rolling out age verification in the EU (just got an email yesterday). One of the ways to verify your age is with Persona which Discord also tried to use and got a lot of backslash.

thats the thing, reddit started using AI to moderate all bans, this obfuscate the reason they ban people, it allows them to ban without getting much pushback. Also the fact they RARELY even lift a ban when someone appeals everyday for MONTHS.

this is the first steps to require facial recognition and ID down the line, much like FB does.

reddits moderation is very expensive, which is why they allow google to scrape thier data. the V3 captcha system is googles thing, reddit cant afford that but google lets them use it in exchange for AI/datamining. reddit and google is quite intertwined, like with mozilla and google.

Here is the thing, I don't think they are driving towards a cliff. In olden times, reddit was one of several options for doomscrolling, with Slashdot, Digg, et Al. When Digg shot themselves in the foot, Reddit was ready to take up the slack, so eternal September happened, and Digg essentially withered away.

At that time the combined user base of these sites was probably an order of magnitude less of present day reddit.

I believe that reddit has achieved critical mass, and they can pretty much do any shit they want. They may lose users, but they'll be a drop in the bucket.

The inertia is too large.

It stull punishes new users just trying to comment. It is a garrrrbage!

I use old. as the only way to access reddit, but I've noticed that more and more pages are sending me to the new pages. I tried new for a day the other day and didn't really like it. So I guess I'll use it until old is gone.