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NEW Reddit has recently started blocking logged-out access too. Stupid modal popup with "Join the most real place on the internet" (yeah, right) banner that ap

by a_e_k 2mo ago

NEW Reddit has recently started blocking logged-out access too. Stupid modal popup with "Join the most real place on the internet" (yeah, right) banner that appears after about 20 seconds. I'm not logging in to my private account from a work machine that's MITMd for "security", just to browse search results or take a short break! (I've been a user for nearly 21 years, but using it less and less with each stupid choice - these days I post a comment maybe once a week there. I think I may finally be done with Reddit, sadly. It was good while it lasted.)

Terr_ 2mo ago
> NEW Reddit has recently started blocking logged-out access too. That'd be an important milestone in enshittification when it comes to other entities that were previously happy to outsource their fan-forums, support, announcement systems, etc. And I do mean "enshittification" in a formal quasi-academic sense, because it's not just about things getting worse, but about the middleman starting to exploit people on either end. Adding a login-wall means that content and communities built up with a kinder kind of collaboration will become hostages, to boost Reddit Corporation's user-stats and creepy data harvesting for investors. Kind of like how various groups started using Twitter as a way to provide a scalable stream of announcements--sometimes time-critical ones--to an audience. The entire use-case goes down the toilet when users aren't being shown your stuff in chronological order anymore.
- alex1138 2mo ago
  > user stats This is really it though isn't it I know new reddit has its potential inspiration in stopping LLM scraping(?) but websites are made worse because of some stupid metric that has to be fulfilled
  - krazingans12346 1mo ago
    llm scraping? they encourage it, recently chatgpt stopped referencing reddit as of late and thier traffic dropped, that is why they are trying to make people login. people were burned by the purges reddit has been doing, so they end up just lurking instead. i dont think reddit will hold back thier filtering.
alex1138 2mo ago
Yes "the most real place" where they can just ban you whenever (the site, or its legions of - installed? - subreddit mods)
- phrotoma 1mo ago
  I got banned from the subreddit for my province (in Canada) a couple months ago - the stated reason was "ban evasion". It was my first ever ban. Cool.

by a_e_k 2mo ago

Terr_ 2mo ago

> NEW Reddit has recently started blocking logged-out access too. That'd be an important milestone in enshittification when it comes to other entities that were previously happy to outsource their fan-forums, support, announcement systems, etc. And I do mean "enshittification" in a formal quasi-academic sense, because it's not just about things getting worse, but about the middleman starting to exploit people on either end. Adding a login-wall means that content and communities built up with a kinder kind of collaboration will become hostages, to boost Reddit Corporation's user-stats and creepy data harvesting for investors. Kind of like how various groups started using Twitter as a way to provide a scalable stream of announcements--sometimes time-critical ones--to an audience. The entire use-case goes down the toilet when users aren't being shown your stuff in chronological order anymore.

alex1138 2mo ago
> user stats This is really it though isn't it I know new reddit has its potential inspiration in stopping LLM scraping(?) but websites are made worse because of some stupid metric that has to be fulfilled
- krazingans12346 1mo ago
  llm scraping? they encourage it, recently chatgpt stopped referencing reddit as of late and thier traffic dropped, that is why they are trying to make people login. people were burned by the purges reddit has been doing, so they end up just lurking instead. i dont think reddit will hold back thier filtering.

alex1138 2mo ago

Yes "the most real place" where they can just ban you whenever (the site, or its legions of - installed? - subreddit mods)

phrotoma 1mo ago
I got banned from the subreddit for my province (in Canada) a couple months ago - the stated reason was "ban evasion". It was my first ever ban. Cool.