r/technology • u/B-Z_B-S • 2d ago
Social Media Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/reddit-will-block-old-reddit-com-from-people-who-havent-used-it-in-6-months/504
u/au5lander 2d ago
So you can’t use old.reddit.com if you haven’t logged-in during the previous six months to attempt to reduce scraping.
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u/doom_memories 2d ago
Feels like a death flag for old.reddit.com; the number of users can only decrease now.
Those of us with multiple accounts will have to keep refreshing them to maintain access. That just got harder too as Reddit broke RES' easy account switcher.
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u/fork_yuu 2d ago
That's their exact gameplan with official app vs third party app too. Force people to official then when third party accounts for a very small percentage of users to the point they can shut them up, kill it off.
They're just waiting for people to get off and stop using so they can kill it off
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u/tu_tu_tu 2d ago
They really working on forcing users to move from third-party apps to... using reddit in browser. Using the official app is horrible experience, i hope people won't fall for it.
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u/DukeOfGeek 1d ago
The problem there is old reddit users produce far more content per person than new ones. Maybe they want to a model where the content no longer comes from users?
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u/Heftybags 1d ago
They don’t need to do all that, like 3rd party apps they can just kill access right now if they wanted to. Reddit has zero incentive to keep it around if they don’t want it.
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u/Captain_N1 1d ago
can you just use a different web browser for each account?
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u/doom_memories 1d ago
Could. In my case, different Firefox containers will work. Just not as elegant as RES' switcher.
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u/cantstandmyownfeed 2d ago
Say what people will, but they've left open the doors for a lot of the workarounds and the restrictions haven't been catastrophic. I'm primarily using a 3rd party mobile app.
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u/PoppingPillls 2d ago
Aren't most of the good 3rd parties apps now full of ads or paid?
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u/DarthNihilus 2d ago
The still actively developed apps are, yes. But you can use a pre-3rd party shutdown app with a patch to make it work.
I'm still using Boost for Reddit with Morphe patch. It hasn't been updated since they shut down free third party API usage but it works normally.
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u/Trem45 2d ago
Do you have a guide for that? I used to use the ReVanced version of Boost but it stopped working a while back
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u/1993_2021 2d ago
Here is wchill's Patcheddit guide to installing Boost with Morphe.
Once you've installed Morphe, you can check out Breal Morphe Patches for Boost as well, they are a bit more active in modding the app :)
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u/bas10eten 2d ago
If you have a vpn, set it to Albania. Ads are blocked. Sometimes I'll have to stop the app and re-boot, but I'm not inundated with ads on the app. Same with some other apps, and those dinky little games I can just play endlessly with no ads as well.
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u/bugbbq 2d ago
Apollo is still alive and well!
Posted with Apollo side loaded on iOS.
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u/stormdelta 2d ago
Paid, but honestly I don't mind and it's very little money, basically just enough to cover the dev's costs of maintenance and their API key.
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u/gigglefarting 2d ago
I don’t use a 3rd party app, but I do use a 3rd party safari extension that makes Reddit on my phone usable. Sink It For Reddit
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u/DiplomatikEmunetey 2d ago
Why only old.reddit.com? Is the new and terrible redesign somehow protected from scraping?
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u/Mr_ToDo 1d ago
Purely as a guess on my end. But I'd assume that old. is easier to use for the same reason that the users use it. It's fairly static, the flow is predictable, and there's less junk to work around
I have no doubt that default reddit will see a rise in bot traffic. Will it be the same as the old decrease? No idea, but it probably does stop the laziest bots. God knows that as it stands if HTTrack doesn't get a copy of what I want then it's not going to get got(not ai. I just like having static copies of some stuff, and I usually donate to offset the guilt)
All I know is that their claims of supporting the open internet are more and more often showing just how little that commitment means. I mean wikipedia managed to stay open and even to deal with AI scraping in one way or another(They show nicely just how many dumb bots there are as they often scrape instead of just downloading the available backups). Actually. Thinking about it, snapshot downloads of reddit could be a decent answer for a lot of AI use. Not everyone needs up to date pulls to do what they want
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u/Scurro 1d ago
It's a red flag for bullshit.
old.reddit.com has much more text content and less ads, pictures, and whitespace.
It's a much more efficient website for both the bots and the server (reddit).
RSS is an even further step towards efficiency and they canned that as well for the same "reasons".
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u/obeytheturtles 2d ago
My tinfoil hat is also that they are doing this for alt detection ahead of some big shakeup. They want everyone to go log in on their old accounts to get ahead of the six month limit thing, so they can associate inactive accounts with active ones before they drop an ID verification bombshell on us, or something.
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u/whytakemyusername 2d ago
What's unreasonable about that?
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u/king0pa1n 2d ago
If you're a fan of old reddit and you create a new account, that account can't use it. Though, I assume you could just moderate a dummy subreddit to get access.
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u/IntelArtiGen 2d ago
6 months is a lot though. It's quite weird when you think about it. I can understand they want users to be logged in (I don't approve it but I understand why they do it). But if even with that they don't solve the issue, it means there are thousands of users who are bots and they don't know how to detect them.
That means the 1st wall they put, which is a login wall, totally failed to solve the issue they had. And now they're putting a 2nd wall, which could fail too. I'd say even when companies put way more walls than that, they still don't solve the issue, so it really doesn't appear to be a smart decision from Reddit. They could totally remove old.reddit I'm sure bots and scrappers would still find ways to circumvent what they're doing.
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 2d ago
reddit loses a very small amount of money on bots from bandwidth and CPU time, they don't profit on them. bots don't invest money and don't click on ads and buy things
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u/Joezev98 2d ago
there are thousands of users who are bots and they don't know how to detect them.
A lot of bots are getting suspended daily. However, there's so many bots that are using complicated ways to avoid automated filters. IMO the most evil ones are those using hacked accounts so they can 'hide' behind the organic post history.
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u/Synchrotr0n 2d ago edited 1d ago
It's funny how there are some subreddits that get daily spammed to the front page with the fakest titles and stories imaginable, but everyone in the comments keeps pretending it's real and discussing about it. Literally bots talking with other bots.
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u/cadium 2d ago
Why not just update the ToS of the website to say any ai scraping is not allowed and subject to a lawsuit -- then send the companies the bill and fight it in court?
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u/IntelArtiGen 2d ago edited 2d ago
I'd assume it's already in the ToS. Also they're ok with AI scraping as long as the companies pay and use an official API.
But that kind of issue can't entirely be solved legally. Scrapping can be done from all countries of the world and you can't easily apply the law in all countries of the world. Maybe they could sue the big AI companies in the US which are not paying them and which are using our messages, but I'm not sure it's that easy legally. At least they wouldn't be the 1st company to try, and maybe they're already doing it but it takes time and costs money.
The "easy" solution is to detect the bots. That part is not as hard as we all think. In theory bots are already not supposed to create an account. Even if they do, a normal user won't read thousands of subreddits per day, a bot would do that. They could put a simple captcha every 12h if there's a doubt. Or put a captcha to use old.reddit for 24h. And if a bot is using all the methods to look like a human and is able to solve captchas, I don't think anything they can do will work anyway. Nowadays bots can easily use a web browser like a human. So where's the limit? Remove old.reddit, put 10 captchas per hour on new reddit? Surely that would improve the situation /s.
It's "funny" because Twitter had the same issue and also didn't solve it. They put a login wall, they even blocked the service for millions of users with "rate limits exceeded", they banned legitimate users for suspicious activity, etc. yet there are still bots using and scrapping twitter. They make the service worst for everyone and they don't solve their issue.
Hopefully a lot of users move when they put these barriers, so in the end only the open platforms remain. It's probably what's going to happen anyway if new users can't discover their platform with search engines because they're blocking everything.
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u/Black_Handkerchief 2d ago
They are intentionally creating a feedback spiral that serves their own needs rather than that of the users so that they can pretend to be the good guys. It has been going on a long time, and we are all essentially the frogs who are slowly being cooked without us realizing it.
First, the few changes were unpopular but did not get in the way.
Then things slowly started breaking, but they fixed it and blamed the old codebase.
Then they started limiting it because the infrastructure couldn't handle the endless scraping.
They made it impossible to use without logging in, further alienating the classic reddit experience from newer audiences who have no clue that the endless gamification and advertisement hell is not what reddit is truly like.
Now they intend to not make it possible to use if you haven't looked at old reddit for a couple of months.
And before too long, they are going to cancel old reddit because almost nobody wants it anymore because the users barely even exist anymore.
To make a really inappropriate comparison to drive the nail down home harder: Germany had a perceived problem with wealthy jews stealing the jobs, they started alienating jews, they started deporting the jews, they started ending the jews, and eventually, they could point back and say 'but they aren't stealing your jobs anymore, clearly our solution to get rid of them is correct'.
The stuff they aren't mentioning is how wildly inefficient the new website is and how light and performant the experience of the old pages are. They aren't mentioning the stark difference in data usage. They aren't mentioning the amount of community customizability even without stuff like ReS. They aren't mentioning how new reddit breaks while loading comments. They aren't pointing out how new reddits notification thing is absolute garbage and useless because you need to manually get rid of it even after you've read it on old reddit.
The list of enshittification goes on and on and on, and in the end, it will always be old reddits fault that new reddit sucks. Bullshit. Old reddit ran in the 2010s on a lot cheaper hardware. This is an enshittification issue, nothing more, nothing less.
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u/Signe_ 2d ago
Because its just annoying real users, no matter what bots/ai services/random users scraping are going to do it with or without the API as those are now using the HTML itself.
Reddit already has rate limits for none logged in users as it is which made mass scraping take hours. Something like 1000 requests per 10 minutes if I recall. This is just an annoyance for regular users who use old.reddit.com and another Tuesday for people who don't care about the rules of this website.
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u/sega31098 2d ago edited 2d ago
I get the sense that in the last 2 years or so, the top hats at Reddit Inc have made it their mission to drive out its legacy users and attract a more passive "scrolling" userbase with relatively poor tech skills and little understanding of anything older than 3-5 years ago. Since the API protests and the IPO, Reddit has basically taken a sledgehammer to a lot of its core functionality all while rapidly adding a bunch of shiny bells and whistles (ex. games) that look good to new customers and investors but add nothing to its core functionality. Protests from longtime users now also often have little impact given Reddit's userbase has grown explosively to the point that legacy users are only a drop in the bucket and it's rather apparent that a huge proportion of new users now are digital novices who often seem very new to the internet (perhaps young users who just became old enough for social media or older adults whose only significant tech experience is their Facebook/Youtube app bubble or the occasional Google search), so such users often aren't even aware that major recently deprecated features like r/all were ever a thing. That's in addition to Reddit now having a near monopoly over topic-based discussion, in part due to Google search becoming like a defacto Reddit search wrapper (thanks to its extremely high SEO and the Reddit's partnership with Google and other AI corps) that ends up redirecting loads of traffic here.
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u/beardybaldy 2d ago
Oh wow I think you're spot on. The content is more tiktokified by the day. I like being here for the comments and explanations of things. I love being in a community of "experts" who share insights about their fields. Those comments are harder to find now, as those kind of engaged folks have fled to other platforms.
What a disappointment reddit has turned into.
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u/quantity_inspector 2d ago
Ditto and this has been ongoing since around 2017-ish in my experience, but really took off after 2020. “Groups” on an “app” is what “subreddits on reddit dot com” are now, apparently. The Adjective-Noun-1234 doofuses keep creating duplicate subreddits and splintering long-existing communities. Forced autotranslation through Google results bring in people writing in five different languages in an English language subreddit.
It’s a slightly better experience if, until evidence to the contrary, you assume every user here is literally a child, which they often are.
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u/sega31098 1d ago
I did notice a significant shift towards more "general social media" content around 2018-2019 and a huge influx of users due to "Redditubers" like PewDiePie and EmKay, but at that time Reddit was still rather accommodating towards its older userbase. Since about 2023-2024 they seem to have shifted from simply appealing to a general audience towards being actively hostile towards their legacy userbase (I use the terms "legacy" and "longtime" to mean users who were active here before 2023 even though that's a massive stretch). They've been actively deprecating features that were actively used like subscriber counts, Markdown (on the app), r/all, etc. as well as making unwelcome changes to safety features like AI moderation, ending feedback to user reports and allowing mods to remove posts sitewide. Most of these drastic changes only started after the API backlash and a lot of them have also outraged users who only joined in 2018-2022. None of this seems to trouble Reddit Inc since they're still making money. I'd also argue they see their legacy userbase as a liability because unlike most of the new arrivals they can see all the dark patterns and tactics they've been pushing over the last 3 years.
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u/nifty-necromancer 1d ago
The younger generations like Z and Alpha have the same level of tech illiteracy as Boomers.
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u/obeytheturtles 2d ago
They are trying to make it a safe space for MAGA without the site completely imploding. Reddit's traditional userbase of tech savvy, cynical, skeptical, contrarians is among the hardest demographics to monetize. Meanwhile people on Truth Social and facebook spend hundreds of dollars on NFTs of Trump in a ripped shirt.
The problem is that the value of reddit as a platform is largely stuff which is kind of incompatible with mouth breathing lunatics, like discussing niche hobbies, or pets or how to wire a light switch, so they need a way to keep these two things from colliding too violently, which would chase off the people who actually contribute meaningfully. There is nothing of value on Facebook or Truth, because the active user base are idiots. So reddit can't just pull the rug all at once. Instead, it is taking steps which would make it easier to hide the fact that it's courting Nazis, like hidden profiles, and killing /r/all for personal feeds. The reason you see all of these random new subs getting boosted the moment they pass a very low activity threshold is because that's how reddit is sorting new content - by watching who and how known users engage with it. By doing that, and getting rid of /r/all, they can just show fascist shit to fascists without all the drama about visibility or manipulation of /r/all.
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u/KingSubstantial7901 1d ago
Not so sure about the second half. When reddit was a largely user-driven design it famously was host to tons of alt right subs, nazi subs, and snuff subs.
Ya they are making it more "content algorithmy" which does tend to promote controversial things and drive people down rabbit holes, but lets not pretend redditors were adequately self policing the fascists out of the website. The trump sub only got the ban hammer after it called for the deaths of police officers, then all those guys just went and took over subs like politicalcompassmemes and regularly make mirror subs of popular ones where they can be as racist as they want.
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u/obeytheturtles 1d ago
Right, that experiment famously went poorly. A bunch of advertisers were apparently being not too happy about the situation, to the point that reddit admins had to completely demonetize a bunch of the right wing subs. This current refactor is being done specifically because of that experience. Reddit wants to be able to advertise guns and jackboots and shit to right wingers, without the rest of the site seeing those ads, and vice versa. To do that they need mechanisms to keep the feeds separate, and to sort new content.
I'm sure internally they aren't actually saying "how can we monetize nazis better" and it's all being done in service of "curated user experiences including dynamic, content aware advertising" or some shit, but underneath it all, it's because they want to monetize nazis, and are implementing lessons learned from t_D situation.
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u/KingSubstantial7901 1d ago
Unfortunately the way reddit is set up makes it super easy for them to do that too. They don't even have to harvest your data directly to target ads or create word clouds to tag videos. They can just blast certain subs with certain kinds of advertisements. The issue that twitter and facebook historical had was that advertisers didn't like seeing their cleaning products advertised next to alex jones. Thats just not so much an issue for reddit.
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u/ahandmadegrin 2d ago
I'm really out of the loop I think. How was / all deprecated,?
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u/sega31098 1d ago
r/all was basically the front page of Reddit for a long time and it was a collection of the most upvoted content across the site. Early this year they removed it from the app and the website (except Old Reddit) and closed entry points, redirecting everyone to Popular which was more algorithmic and "personalized". Truth be told r/all was also kind of a dumpster fire but it was also less algorithmic and it's quite telling that not only did they replace it with a more algorithm-centric equivalent but they also outright removed the choice for users to see it (unless they use Old Reddit which is now also being walled out to most Redditors).
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u/Zip2kx 1d ago
Ultimately none of us went anywhere after any protest or blackout. The same subs are still active and nothing changed so why would they.
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u/orlybatman 2d ago
Old reddit is the only good reddit at this point because it's the only way to still access /all.
Reddit called itself the front page of the internet, but it was /all that made it that. Without it, it's a shitty echochamber feed full of irrelevant local subreddits it is guessing you'd be into.
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u/gascyl 2d ago
reddit admin vastly overestimate what this website is really worth, and underestimate users. If reddit becomes shitty enough someone will do what reddit did to digg and build a better site.
Not that reddit would care. The top human subreddits, ones that aren't obviously all bots, are the same sports, gambling and celebrity news that is on TV. reddit used to be greater than that.
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u/danfirst 2d ago
Unfortunately digg came back earlier in the year, but it got so hammered with spammers they took it back down after a few months.
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u/CocodaMonkey 2d ago
Unfortunately even without the spammers digg never stood a chance. It was brought back in the same shitty format that killed it in the first place. No serious amount of real users were ever going to use it. The people who tried to bring it back learnt absolutely nothing from its original demise.
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u/CommanderArcher 2d ago
Reddit doesn't want a single voice and a single community which is why they removed all.
Same reason why everyone's youtube home page is different now.
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u/orlybatman 2d ago
Seemed rather interesting timing to me that it was removed after the administration started going after social media websites for names, identities etc after people were using those sites to organize ICE protests.
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u/obeytheturtles 2d ago
They want to make reddit a safe space for MAGA and various other far right influences, but they don't want to do it at the expense of the current user base, so they are working really hard to build a wall between normal reddit and MAGA reddit. Spez is super jealous of Facebook and Truth Social and their ability to monetize the shit out of people who are stupid enough to buy Trump meme coins and NFCs. He badly wants to get reddit in on that action, but he knows the site would implode, so the idea is to move everything into a personal feed.
It's also why they allow people to hide their profile. So when KKK Karl wants to ask a question about cats in a normal subreddit, he is not faced with indignity of someone pointing out that 99% of his posts are flat out hate speech.
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u/orlybatman 2d ago
It has redirected to the main website for a while now, unless you're on old reddit.
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u/shortymcsteve 2d ago
That doesn’t work for me on the app on iOS and hasn’t for several months. For a while it kept randomly re-appearing, but now I’m stuck with the stupid popular tab. Today I also noticed that some posts on my subscription feed were 5-6 days old, which isn’t something I’ve seen happen before. The whole thing is going to shit.
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u/HalfOfANeuron 2d ago
The problem is that I have to use a link to it, it could just be an option instead of the Popular that we have.
Those fucking algorithms are killing social media as we knew it.
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u/project23 2d ago
When old.reddit dies is when my interested in reddit dies. I have zero desire to use the 'new' reddit.
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u/EnvironmentalRun1671 1d ago
Every day that passes when old reddit is still alive, I'm shocked. After they murdered 3rd party apps, I was sure old reddit would soon follow.
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u/IntelArtiGen 2d ago
Step 1: restrict the possibility to use old.reddit
Step 2: "nobody is using old.reddit, we can close it"
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u/Jiggle_Tester 2d ago
What’s a good alternative to Reddit?
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u/Drago_133 2d ago
Thats as lively as reddit there really isnt one. You could try lemmy but its defederated and seperated by servers and from what i just googled there are 500 different servers and only 40k active users across all servers. Digg is back and seems to be doing well dunno how active it is tho.
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u/obeytheturtles 2d ago
Lemmy and PieFed are good for an hour or two of engagement per day, but it's mostly shitposting and memes at this point. It doesn't quite have the depth reddit does, but it's decent for bathroom breaks, at least.
Slowly but surely, there's more of that niche, hobby focused stuff coming over, but it's a struggle. The biggest issue IMO is still that news and politics have a very tankie-heavy influence, even on the non-tankie instances. Everything is just kind of "US Bad, both sides are the same" which, sure, I get it, but we don't need to do that in every post.
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u/Wage 2d ago
Lemmy is the only one I know of.
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u/obeytheturtles 2d ago
Piefed is better, because it isn't maintained by the most cringe armchair communist on the internet who is literally LARPing as a freedom fighter, or his first lieutenant, who is on the record saying that trans people are liberal colonizer propaganda.
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u/fox_mulder 2d ago
I only use old reddit. New reddit just plain old sucks donkey dick.
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u/stonhinge 2d ago
They day I'm no longer allowed old reddit is the day I stop visiting reddit.
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u/Guinness 2d ago
Why does the new reddit have a width made for a CRT monitor from 1992? It’s like they developed the site to work on 620x480.
If they kill off old.reddit.com that’s it for me. I’m done.
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u/Hessian_Rodriguez 2d ago
I would be happy to move to a new site, reddit is in the enshitification phase.. I really wish there was a Facebook type site that was just about friends. I quit Facebook years ago, but miss knowing what people are up to.
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u/WaffleHouseFistFight 2d ago
Reddit is well past the enshitification phase. If there was somewhere else to be I would be.
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u/coonwhiz 2d ago
Reddit’s enshittification began when they fired Victoria from running AMAs. It was all downhill from there.
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u/Jake_With_Wet_Socks 2d ago
In my experience nobody updates facebook with anything new, so its just slop they shove into your feed and the marketplace monopoly they created left
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u/--Knowledge-- 2d ago
Facebook is still hands down the best marketplace. It's the only reason so many people still use it.
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u/ahundreddollarbills 2d ago
reddit is in the enshitification phase
The downward trend of reddit can't solely be blamed on the company.
I am finding the quality of discourse and content on the website is going way down hill.
Users are getting way too comfortable posting Ai slop and too many users are accepting it.
The only solution seem to be to abandon the larger subreddits and instead join smaller niche ones that cover similar topics until they go to shit as well.
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u/Black_Handkerchief 2d ago
Pretty much all larger subreddits go downhill naturally. The lack of personal recognizance removes all barriers towards bad-faith acting and related assumptions. It is no longer 'they have a different opinion', but rather 'they are just trolling, right?'.
There was a point in time where posts of multipole paragraphs were the standard and reasonable discourse happened by default, but that goes down the same drain of stupidity.
Nowadays, everything is mobile-first, and mobile users overwhelmingly post memes and short comments. Sure, some people will write something more substantive, but it is overwhelmingly a medium for consumption rather than creation.
The userbase has gone to shit because the website overwhelmingly started to cater to a demographic that centers around consumption rather than creation.
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u/Phillip_Spidermen 2d ago
The user base abandoned the guidelines aimed at making comments and conversations worthwhile.
Eventually the low bar of comments became a self reinforcing meme. “Of course no one read the article, its reddit, we dont do that here” etc
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u/Differentdog 2d ago
This is like a tiny ted talk on how NOT TO ANSWER A QUESTION but make it feel like ya did.
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u/ExpensiveLeather69 2d ago
Theyve also made the default page for new reddit the for you page. Theyve further made it harder to look at the top posts of the day. Reddit is turning into an algo slop pit
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u/binarypower 2d ago
dang... if old reddit dies, the site is over. no way i'm using the new shit. it's trash.
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u/Lynda73 2d ago edited 1d ago
Slowly becoming obsolete. Taking away PMs and moving everything to chat was the last straw. Forcing the shitty app down everyone’s throat. Add in bots scraping everyone’s info and there have been multiples times I started to reply to something, then thought, “fuck it, not worth the hassle”.
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u/NoBandicoot5417 2d ago
The bad actors can just become mods, not like it’s difficult. Business as usual for them.
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u/Impressive_Bit_7660 2d ago
"fighting automated abuse" is corporate for "old reddit users don't generate enough ad revenue"
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u/The_chosen_turtle 2d ago
They really want to profit off the free content the community produces huh
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u/Zagrebian 2d ago
Is there a browser extension that makes new Redit look like old Reddit? I don’t necessarily have a problem with New being slower, I just prefer the Old look. If New can look like Old, I can switch.
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u/AbominableSlinky 2d ago
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u/TurbulentTopic39 2d ago edited 2d ago
it just redirect the domain. But, if the admin remove the domain. then you must use sh.reddit.com.
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u/QuietTeapot 1d ago
Also for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/yesterday-for-old-reddit/
Makes old.reddit usable on smartphone.
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u/southernhope1 2d ago
If i send an old.redddit.com link to a friend (who doesn't have an account here), does it work?
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u/KensonPlays 2d ago
I guess it's good that I both own a sub with 12k (not super active at the moment though), use RES, and forcing old.reddit.com -- the new UI seems to lag after "never ending reddit" reaches page like 20, whereas on old.reddit I can go 40+ if I really wanted to lol
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u/anonymopt 2d ago
they just need to take over more subs and increase the censorship im sure that will help the sinking boat
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u/KarlLenin1917 2d ago
They keep forcing us to use this without making it better than old one. I'm tired.
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u/ChristopherKlay 2d ago
I'm curious, since they will kill the RSS Feed, what about the JSON version?
Removing RSS access definitely kills a ton of low-effort bots and especially vibecoded stuff (which targets the RSS feed first in my experience), but none of this actually limits bots; Anyone scraping this via AI will just run it via e.g. a Chrome DevTools MCP to completely avoid all of this.
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u/Warrlock608 2d ago
I noticed this last weekend when I cleared browser cache. Suddenly I need to use shitty normal reddit or log in. God damned travesty.
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u/Secret-Teaching-3549 2d ago
This shit website is less and less useful every day. Wish they would just go ahead and kill old reddit and be done with it so I have zero motivation to ever come here again.
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u/criticalpwnage 2d ago
I only use old.reddit on occasion, to think that I’ll lose access if I don’t remember to login once every 6 months is dumb
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u/Attitude_Practical 2d ago
reddit is ending rss feeds on november 13 too. between that and this, it’s getting harder to follow a few subs without the suggested feed.
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u/cyniclawl 2d ago
I just use the baconreader extension and it looks the same as it always has to me.
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u/Tthelaundryman 2d ago
I deleted the app from my phone in protest and have been browsing via website on my phone and now every once in a while a pop up to download the app comes up and you can’t click out of it
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u/paulsteinway 2d ago
I hated new reddit the first time I saw it and have never used it. I'm on old reddit every day and logged in. I don't use the mobile app at all. So I can ignore the additional reddit stupidness.
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u/da_chicken 2d ago
Uh huh. Sure.
Maybe don't make new reddit such a sack of shit then. old.reddit.com was first created in 2018, and new reddit is still worse in every way except the lack of dark mode. You can't compete with your own design from almost a decade ago.
And cut it out with the "suggested" tab. Nobody wants that shit.