is it fully rolled out in the world? I am still able to access reddit without an account.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2026
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Nearly 20 years on Reddit. I survived the Digg Wars, API/RiF fiasco, and the infiltration of bots.
But I am so done with the anti-user direction Reddit has gone. So here I am.
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It's quite a shame that the vast majority would rather stay on a platform that hates its users than come here, but I guess that's how humanity works
Indian content is a growing prescence on reddit now, likely it will just be mostly indians in the end, since india have sucha large population compared to most countries.
I think many people just don't know about Lemmy and all its wonders
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Thanks for curing my reddit addiction, spez.
Time to log out from reddit.
Hello guys, thats why I got Lemmy since I have read that today!
Im also new to here, how's this place?
We like to keep if tidy. Please take off your shoes at the login screen and close any country gates behind you. Pick up your litter and tell us a dirty joke.
A bit less active but you're not gonna get shadowbanned for no reason :)
Thats nice to know
It's smaller, it's slower, but it's pretty cozy.
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Maybe don't hand out bans like a single old lady on Halloween. I got banned for saying we need to punch all Nazis.
I can log and read a source for some tech help, then leave immediately. If you want engagement, unban everyone and return to the wild west.
more like a HOA violation, so you have multiple accounts they all get trashed when one gets banned. assuming you arnt using evasion methods.
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“We’re making the change because it’s better for user experience, better for our ads business, is more in line with safety regulations, and more protective of Reddit data,” he explained.
According to Huffman, Reddit has grown to the point where personalization is increasingly necessary to help users find relevant communities and discussions.
In short- we can't datamine you if you're not logged in, we can't build a behavioral profile on people without accounts, we lick the boots of governments that'll demand ~~ID checks~~ age verification, and it makes it harder for AI bots to scrape the site without paying us. Really there's no downside to anyone at all, it's a win-win. Oh it's bad for users and bad for the Internet? Is that important? Those groups don't pay us, right?
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I guess I kind of understand why companies want you to be logged in to engage with their platform, as the user metrics are the main selling point to advertisers, but man do I really fucking hate it when a platform forces me to log in by preventing me from using their website. So much so, that I haven't made an account on Instagram or X or Facebook or whatever dumb social media platform specifically because I can't browse without signing up. Well, that, and also the greed, the lack of privacy, the tacit endorsement of fascism, et. cetera.
No, I don't want to make an account.
No, I don't want to download your app.
No, I don't want to turn on notifications.
Gah, fuck off with all this horseshit. The internet used to be fun. Now everything is a chore and nobody does anything unless they feel like they can make a profit off of it.
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It's becoming a "fuck this I'm going somewhere else" experience.
According to FediDB there has been a 1.7% growth this month. Meaning 244,051 new accounts have been created on fediverse on the past 30days. Almost 250thousand people in a month. I'm sure this is completely coincidental
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it might as well have been already, if you use a VPN you're surely accustomed to the Fedora Teletubby
It's a shame because it's genuinely a useful repository of information. I wish infinite humiliation and discomfort upon Reddit's leadership.
lul
As crazy as it may sound, Reddit is a treasure trove of information, especially when it comes to niche technology stuff. Would be a shame for them to lock it all behind accounts, and in my case age verification.
This should be even more incentive to diversify knowledge away from Reddit
It still is the most reliable way of tech support. Unfortunately.
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A moment of silence for those gooners who, for one reason or another, need to goon anonymously...
I remain utterly discombobulated that 90% of redditors haven't already migrated here. What exactly are they waiting for? Lemmy clearly is more than good enough already.
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They are going to end up burning the whole thing to the ground in a bid to make investors money on something that never had hard quantifiable monetary value to begin with in a way that you could easily turn up the dial on "line go up" enshitification like Google can with ad impressions.
Its a fancy web forum, a big popular one for sure, but there are God knows how many similar options out there already competing for users. There is a very low ceiling on just how profitable it could ever be as a business all on its own.
There is a reason a lot of these websites, like Gamespot for example, ended up consolidating into holding companies that own a bunch of them.
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