What a sad day. The platform that exposed me to overseas opinions. 🫡
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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Fuck you spez.
We really need a firefox addon to block reddit from google results automatically
Might as well not even use google 70% of the time though if you exclude reddit. I found before switching to DDG or Startpage that I would have to add reddit or site:reddit.com to my queries.
STOP TALKING ABOUT REDDIT!
What the fuck is reddit?
ok then i go to frontends. if that also shuts down, then bye bye reddit.
Oh they dont like people using their website as a website? Guess this is an issue that will solve itself.
ok, just add this to your duckduckgo searches:
😉👌 done
Go into your reddit accounts and advocate for lemmy
yea nah, we don't want most of those idiots here, they can stay on their stupid surveillance app
Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.
If I've learned anything over the past decade, it's that people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification
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
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...
To be honest, I thought they already required that. They just want to keep killing their site, but people refuse to switch over to Lemmy, so niche communities only remain on Reddit and Discord. It's very disheartening. People are morons. There, I said it.
Reddit can suck my balls.
old.reddit is the only way I use it. this goes away, I delete my account.
The support forums like r/stopdrinking and r/CPTSD have been lifesavers for me, but reddit just keeps finding new ways to be terrible. RIP Aaron Swartz
Yup.
I only use old Reddit at work on a computer now. I create a new account every day as it takes that long for them to shadowban me. I get a handful of comments in, get a number of upvotes/downvotes and influence opinions, then I create a new account when I get into work the next day.
Don't have time for a shitty platform on weekends as I have better things to do and I don't care to use it on mobile, even though RedReader still works and looks like old Reddit.
Redreader still works for Android
Ah but redreader parses old.reddit.com. So with the proposed changes, you will probably need an account to use even the excellent RedReader.
When the APIpocolypse happened, Reddit tried really hard to nerf Redreader. They got shamed into allowing it access on accessibility grounds.
It's only a matter of time before it stops working.
Take solace in knowing that "lol, fuck reddit then" is a perfectly cromulent response to this.
I just hope Lemmy doesn't become Reddit 2.0
this is why I use safereddit.com and always have. rarely, if ever, lets me down.
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Stop Using the Bad Site. Just stop doing it.
I did for two years. This place is great so long as you like talking about trump, tech and trek. Anything involving special interests outside of those though, Reddit has it.
Reddit was so surprised I was back it assumed my account was compromised and permananned me.
My VPN use probably didn't help either
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I'm not surprised, I was using it to visit NSFW subs for uh research recently in an incognito tab. It kept flagging me and not letting me in. Said I could log in if I think it's an error. Like MF, I am specifically not logged in on purpose.
Redreader/throwaway account
Gotta hand it to Reddit though.
Somehow they keep coming up with ways to piss off more people.
Oh this is nothing. They're currently testing identity verification. As in, "send a pic of your government-issue ID to Persona so they can check who you really are" (and cross-reference you with other sites that use Persona, like LinkedIn etc.)
I'm also surprised they're still allowing old accounts that don't have an email. Or that they're not mandating everybody to add and verify their phone number "for security and 2FA" – another excellent way of cross-referencing people against all kinds of databases. Just imagine what they can get if they work out a deal to share your phone number with Google, or Amazon.
Disabling mobile browser users with an unclosable popup was the drop for me lol
It almost was for me but old.reddit.com kept it alive for just a little longer. Went to look at my old tabs at lunch today and got hit with the sign-in prompt. Guess it’s dead for me on mobile.
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There are many instances of Redlib which can be used to sidestep reddit dot com. I'd recommend finding a few good ones if you find yourself getting info from reddit very often. Or better yet, host your own.
What I would like to know, though, is what is the best way to automatically use a Redlib instance whenever I click a reddit dot com link on my device. I have an app from f-droid called "sidestep" which works ok but not great. I'm looking for something which ideally works on both android and Linux.
I have Privacy Redirect on FF and added the redlib instance manually.
Good stuff, I'll give it a try. The main issue I have with sidestep is it breaking navigation. If I want to use the back button to go from the redlib page back to my search results, Firefox just closes the tab
I finally switched over. The changes to reddit mobile were awful, this broke the camel’s strained back.
Honestly, one of the few optimistic news I’ve gotten in the last week. Tells me quitting Reddit was a smart move.
I still read one subreddit regularly via old.reddit.com, via VPN without logging in. I guess I will stop now.
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