It's a long walk of shame for a company and platform that once took pride in its openness.
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2026
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Wasn't one of it's cofounders literally the inventor of RSS?
Yeah the one that was hounded to suicide by malicious lawyers. He was a genius who was too good for this world and his positive influence over Reddit has long been a mere footnote.
Literally one of the worst things to happen to the internet imho. Imagine if Reddit embraced ActivityPub.
i wonder when they'll completely kill old.reddit
Working on it. A few weeks ago they added a new restriction: you can only use it while logged in.
https://daily.steinslab.io/en/events/2026-07-23-reddit-old-reddit/
They just made it so you can only use Old Reddit if you've used it within the past six months. If you ever go that long without visiting Old Reddit it's blocked forever for that account. New accounts can't use it at all.
Give it a year or two and they'll use the suddenly much smaller userbase as an excuse to finally kill it entirely.
And RES now uses new reddit. Damn.
They also have a hard 'you need to use our app' wall now if you do not log in
Welcome to the era lf the murder of the internet. Dont worry im sure the golden goose will be fine.
Reddit does not appear to value the goose
Reddit is a social experiment to determine if Stochbolm Syndrome can happen purely within a social media setting. Sadly, the only subjects that remain are absolte morons and the bot army they created to fool their idiot shareholders, so, they’ll never really get a good case study.