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.
I regret every time I revisit Reddit. Them shutting down old.reddit will certainly keep me from ever going back. It’ll be a blessing in disguise for me.
I was addicted to reddit for over 10 years when they shutdown the RIF app. At first I felt like an addict detoxing and it hurt. but now I can look back at those times and say good riddance to Reddit.
I still enjoy this format of social media, and therefore use Lemmy a lot. It’s clear there’s no algorithm or bots upvoteing trying to make me angry or keep me on the site. There’s less bots here trying to steer the conversation or promote their product. I’m happy with Lemmy. Fuck reddit to death.
Honestly, Lemmy has been good for me in some ways because it isn’t as popular and doesn’t have the deep niche communities reddit has that I was super active in.
I get more accomplished now because I essentially “finish” my Lemmy browsing and move on, whereas reddit always had something else for me to dive into.
Yup.
‘Boredom’ is important. The various endless scroll platforms are not good, for a great number of us at least.
I’m the same with you. I was on reddit nearly since the beginning. It was my entire social life, well, mostly. As soon as they killed off TPA, I don’t bother anymore. obligatory, fuck spez.
Enshitifcation everywhere!
So basically every link in Google will be login gated now?
Also easier to track users, incase they want to look for potential “bots”, GOOGLE is quite intimately intertwined with reddits operations.
This is presumably because they’ve been boosting their anonymous agitator account with their profiles set to private, and there are tools out there that reveal said hidden comments like arctic-shift which I assume utilise old.reddit. They are trying so desperately to curate a rightwing majority narrative that simply isn’t true.
What do you mean try? They are not desperate. They just are doing it. On every platform. The left is absolute cooked. There is no defense from the left against this. The left saw the writing on the wall and shot themselves in the foot over this decades ago. Now the right have the tools that the left used and because the left gave out to capitalism and profit seeking, the right was able to co-opt the platforms and use those same tools to accomplish a hostile takeover. Just wait until the kids today who experience the internet and the views spread on these platforms become adults. Maybe we can make some bean and moth memes until then.
This is short-term thinking. We’ve got the far-right in my country (Not the US) starting to flail at scrutiny, we’ve got Trump’s attempting to rig the midterms hitting roadblock after roadblock after roadblock. We’ve got civil disobedience, sabotage, subtle dissent increasing in volume and frequency throughout the western world. Outside of the US the far-right is emboldened by the regime but its increasingly looking like trump’s got no clothes.
Russia, one of the main sponsors and recruiters of these fucks are enduring devastating losses on a daily basis, to their infrastructure as well as their citizenry they send in waves upon waves of futility, its only a matter of time until they fall.
The only reason things appear ‘cooked’ for now, is because of the massive sums of money from the Epstein-adjacent tech overlords desperately trying to escape scrutiny, trying to buy out and control the narrative but it just ain’t happening… Bubble’s fit to burst.
Choose hope.
edited - Its happening RIGHT NOW. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/palantir-alex-karp-interview-openai-anthropic-b3007175.html
No need Reddit, in the moment to verify my ID, delete Reddit.
Just got this email from reddit:
We’re writing to let you know that starting 24 June 2026, we are changing how users in the European Union (EU) access certain parts of the platform to comply with EU laws.
If we determine you may be under 18 years old, you will need to verify your age before you can view mature (NSFW) content or communities. Learn more about how we determine age and verification options here.
All teen accounts in the EU will also automatically be switched to the most protective, private experience. Depending on your age, here is how your settings will look:
Ages 13–15: Features like Chat, Followers and Profile discoverability will be locked to the most protective settings. These cannot be changed. Ages 16–17: These same features will default to the most protective settings automatically, but you have the option to change them in your Settings.
If you have questions, please visit Reddit Help. - Reddit
Would be funny if they mark my account as teen when some of my nude images have been on there for years^^
ive been saying they want to become facebook, Full ID(DRIVERS license) and facial recognition. eventually. plus they want to train googles ai models or openail.
I have FB but not use, IG not use and no like the full control…
They want your ID because they’re legally forced to. A VPN will fix it.
yeah, this is the first of several steps to killing old reddit. And good riddance. I hope the whole company burns.
It was a long time coming, but when old reddit dies, I will have a cold beer for all the “good” times and then I’ll be on my way onto new adventures elsewhere.
Oh? Guess what I require old.reddit.com to do?
I got shadow banned like for been 2 months still I am and can’t even get karma up as people won’t see my comments so I just use that red alien for surfing and watching people comments that’s it 👾
Do I have to login to use Lemmy? No, no I do not.
Bruh you don’t even have to be using lemmy to use lemmy. I seen @mastadon people all the time up in here.
piefed too.
And mbin!
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.
That still only counts as one!
Hello from piefed
How do you like it? I’m thinking about trying it out.
It’s nice and has some interesting features, like when there’s a crosspost, it show comments from all communities discussing the same post, or the possibility of following topics
This is amazing. Really brings together the different instances
I like it better than Lemmy. There’s more features, and, maybe I’m weird, but I like the Piefed web interface better than Lemmy’s.
@TropicalDingdong @Lexam damn right!!! lol
There’s even an instance that pulls in Reddit posts, but it’s a one way bridge unlike mastodon.
lemmit.online
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.
Actually new reddit page source doesn’t load comments anymore. You need to execute JavaScript in the page for comments now. Old reddit still gives you a simple page with comments, so probably why they made it login only. You can’t legally scrape pages behind login because you agreed to their tos by logging in
New Reddit is such a shit tier interface though.
Yeah, this is them closing holes in their blocking browser access over a VPN. And also tracking their users so they can sell data to advertisers.
I think scrapers typically run with javascript disabled, and new reddit doesn’t load at all that way
Darn. Old Reddit is the last way to access NSFW subreddits without logging into Reddit.
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…
With the Redlib instances, RedGifs, Scroller and Reddtastic, you won’t have to!
There’s a website called Reddtastic that works great!
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Guess you might have to join the untold numbers of throwaway accounts made for that specific purpose
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.
Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.
Enshittification will continue until morale improves
they have too large of a presence of many of the main subs, like sports, celebrity gossip, movies/shows,etc, the og news and politics sub too, and then every new sub that popped up related to news or politics, thats probably where all the anomisity is coming from since the bans are likely coming from these giant subs. sports being another one, and now INDIA too. plus tons of porn subs, and OF peddling subs.
Yeah, mainstream folks like mainstream social media.
If I’ve learned anything over the past decade, it’s that people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification
They don’t even notice in my experience.
They think people like us are losing it for even noticing.
Can confirm. Blew a fuse when Spotify started sneaking AI generated music in my playlists and my whole family said I was overreacting and that it didn’t matter
Yep, they’ll hit you with the:
🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
People on average will literally put up with anything. You can charge them $10/month for their email and you see 90% or so of all people just shrug and then pay it.
Most people seem to not even have any notion of how things can be better. They never even think to look up like “block ads”. They just take whatever fuckery they get
I really like listening to Amy Poehler’s podcast, and there is a running joke that whenever she pulls up YouTube on air, she has to sit through ads.
And guests will kind of rib her for it, but they do it because she hasn’t paid for YouTube to get rid of ads. Always like, “omg you still haven’t just paid for YouTube?! I can’t believe you have ads!”
Like… Are most people simply unaware that ad blockers exist? I’ve never watched a YouTube ad, nor have I paid a dime to them for anything. I will simply not use YouTube before ever sitting through a single ad.
I just don’t understand how people can be so strangely incurious as to not even wonder if there’s a way to stop this bullshit.
Perfect sheep for capitalism.
Another reminder that the average IQ is 100.
people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification
If they didn’t, it wouldn’t happen (so much). It’s like: we get the government we deserve…
When they close old.reddit will be the best time to advertise the lemmy instances that use that similar looking theme by default
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.
self promotion
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.edit: This should be fixed now!
If only they’d integrate the RES features
Man for real, what I would give for a RES “show images” button to expand all images on the page…
In listings? mlmym already has that. I see the button also exists on comment pages on reddit, but that’d be less useful on lemmy where inline images are already expanded by default.
mlmym
I’m not familiar with what this is, but on desktop going to my instance, lemmy.zip to login definitely does not give me an option to expand all images when looking at the front page or any community page.
If you mean in the comments on a post page, yes those are expanded, but I mean without having to open the post.
mlmym
I’m not familiar with what this is
mlmym is the old-reddit-like frontend discussed in this thread.
If you open https://old.lemmy.zip/, there is a “show images” button next to the nav links for the different sort orders. Unfortunately, it doesn’t actually work there because lemmy.zip has the image proxy enabled, which the old version of mlmym they’re running does not support.
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. 👌🏻
I wonder how to tell if an instance supports it apart from just blindly trying.
They don’t have to stick it at the same prefix, so there’s no reliable way to check by just guessing the name.
It looks like p.lemmy.world is running the Photon frontend. On lemmy.today, we have it at photon.lemmy.today.
Lemmy.today lists the alternate frontends in the instance sidebar, but there’s no requirement for an instance to do that.
this is the first steps to require facial recognition and ID down the line, much like FB does.
No, the first step was all the governments literally forcing them and all the other big social media sites through legislation to add age verification. It makes it much easier to throw people in jail for online wrong-think if they have to verify who they are.
I haven’t touched reddit in years, and I have no sympathy for anyone still using that garbage site, so doesn’t bother me that they’re getting rid of the only good way to view it on a desktop. It won’t change anything, most reddit traffic is through the apps.
If I ever browsed Reddit that was the only method I used. Guess I’ll just not use it at all
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…
