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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 day ago by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] nevyn@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most social media needs curating, and the ability to view only your own feed (following etc) reddit isn't alone in having a ton of crap on it, that happens to all in time. It can be useful, but reddit is still mainly trash.

[–] Dymonika@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right, hence us being on here!

[–] nevyn@slrpnk.net 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

More people here will equal a better experience, until there are too many people here and it goes basically the same way as all who came before it.

But at least this isn't run by a dodgy company (as far as I know/yet)

[–] Dymonika@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But the whole federated structure is the avoidance of tyranny by nature. If an instance starts acting crazy, the others can simply unlink from it. "Too many" will never happen anyway because the interface is more difficult to use. We should promote it as much as possible, I believe.

[–] nevyn@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 hours ago

People flock If the interface is difficult to use then yes, that will keep people away, but that also makes it a daft design (or a very clever one I guess) I'm not sure if the issue is problematic instances, more likely problematic people especially when/if they become the norm. I'm new here, too early to form an opinion, but this isn't the 1st social media, and they didn't all necessarily start out bad.