It’s being rolled out slowly. Old.reddit stopped working on my desktop yesterday but still works on my phone, despite being on the same internet connection.
Just years of answer to questions that you could not Google because Google only shows sponsored results. We were so used to forums being forever that when we moved to Reddit and Discord, we did not consider the price of centralized information.
I have found Reddit misses much more than hits when I was on there pre-Lemmy.
On topics where I have deep knowledge, I was drown out by people with a wrong answer and more karma. Once on something I was literally the creator of.
I can only assume other topics I know less about were the same way. It really makes me doubt what I see on Reddit. I assume ai and bots did not improve that.
For niche information I am actually going back to targeted web boards. While Lemmy is less entertaining, I have gotten some good quality information as well as conversation.
But also, just having a huge number of people on one platform makes for a lot more content on obscure topics. You can have a niche interest and find a whole-ass subreddit full of people with the same interest. There are definitely subreddits I miss. But not enough to wade through the cesspool that is Reddit to pick out the few remaining gems.
Yes, we can make similar communities on Lemmy, but without the sheer volume of eyeballs that Reddit has, there’s next to no chance that such communities would take off. (I’d love to see an equivalent of /r/bestoflegal, but the only way that’s feasible is for it to copy content from Reddit, which isn’t really the solution I’m hoping for. /r/fuckhoa is endlessly entertaining, but again, way too niche to take off on Reddit. I think you all get what I’m saying here.)
Initially if you browsed via a browser on mobile, it would force you to get the app or login. Now they’ve also (rolling disable) of old.reddit without logins (browser and mobile).
Yeah, that’s shitty and not unexpected. Hopefully projects like Redlib find/maintain some kind of workaround for the long term, but I’m not all that confident.
I mean, “fake” (undisclosed bot use) accounts’re still possible, so making sure said accts’ve joined a few slice-of-life/normie subs and seed the accts with innocuous questions, it should evade detection for a while… IANAP, so 🤷🏼♂️
They didn’t as far as I can tell. What are you referring to?
It’s being rolled out slowly. Old.reddit stopped working on my desktop yesterday but still works on my phone, despite being on the same internet connection.
yea it happened on the phone, when you use a browser, it will force a login popup. they havnt fully made it popup 100% of the time yet.
They did but it’s a gradual roll out and only fucks over old.reddit for “safety” says the pop up.
I was having trouble figuring this out as well. I unblocked Reddit from my firewall and had no trouble accessing it.
The business model is user data capture. Making people use an app just makes it more apparent.
Is anything important on Reddit anymore?
especially with a cellphone, they capture even more data otherwise they couldnt on a desktop, where you can block ads/login more easily
Just years of answer to questions that you could not Google because Google only shows sponsored results. We were so used to forums being forever that when we moved to Reddit and Discord, we did not consider the price of centralized information.
I have found Reddit misses much more than hits when I was on there pre-Lemmy.
On topics where I have deep knowledge, I was drown out by people with a wrong answer and more karma. Once on something I was literally the creator of.
I can only assume other topics I know less about were the same way. It really makes me doubt what I see on Reddit. I assume ai and bots did not improve that.
For niche information I am actually going back to targeted web boards. While Lemmy is less entertaining, I have gotten some good quality information as well as conversation.
Very much this.
But also, just having a huge number of people on one platform makes for a lot more content on obscure topics. You can have a niche interest and find a whole-ass subreddit full of people with the same interest. There are definitely subreddits I miss. But not enough to wade through the cesspool that is Reddit to pick out the few remaining gems.
Yes, we can make similar communities on Lemmy, but without the sheer volume of eyeballs that Reddit has, there’s next to no chance that such communities would take off. (I’d love to see an equivalent of /r/bestoflegal, but the only way that’s feasible is for it to copy content from Reddit, which isn’t really the solution I’m hoping for. /r/fuckhoa is endlessly entertaining, but again, way too niche to take off on Reddit. I think you all get what I’m saying here.)
100%, yep. It’s all fully ass.
Initially if you browsed via a browser on mobile, it would force you to get the app or login. Now they’ve also (rolling disable) of old.reddit without logins (browser and mobile).
Yeah, that’s shitty and not unexpected. Hopefully projects like Redlib find/maintain some kind of workaround for the long term, but I’m not all that confident.
I mean, “fake” (undisclosed bot use) accounts’re still possible, so making sure said accts’ve joined a few slice-of-life/normie subs and seed the accts with innocuous questions, it should evade detection for a while… IANAP, so 🤷🏼♂️
It’s happening in some countries as a slow rollout
it started happening to my phone yesterday.(no plans of logging in.