It now redirects you to the new site login page. There’s no way to sign up with out an email anymore(?) It was only possible on the old site.

  • @[email protected]
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    Reddit is terrible as a website. But it still has the communities that developed there over years, and they are an invaluable resource. They are definitely positioning themselves to pull a Digg, but until the Reddit-killer comes along with a mass exodus (and it doesn’t look like it’s gonna be Lemmy unfortunately) access to those communities will entail dealing with reddit.

    • @NOT_RICK
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      1610 months ago

      I still look at Reddit from time to time, but I don’t see a need to sign in at all. There’s no use contributing anymore

      • Chainweasel
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        10 months ago

        Digg (a link aggregator very much like Reddit) started pulling similar shit and everyone left for the alternative, which was Reddit at the time.
        After everybody left Digg, Reddit became the default and after about 15 years they are doing the same things that drove people away from Digg

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        1010 months ago

        To rapidly lose your userbase to another platform, due to controversial changes to the website.

        Named after Digg, which lost most of its userbase to Reddit and is now a shell of its former self.

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      Reddit was great as a website, but they decided that they needed to improve it, so now it’s terrible.

      There will never be another digg to reddit type migration again. The companies that have captured the majority of Internet users are far too entrenched now, and the average internet user isn’t interested in building a community any more. The average internet user is a TikTok user now.