Fediverse@lemmy.worldbyAuster@thebrainbin.org
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Reddit keeps pushing on being a closed platform, now rolling out mandatory logging for old.reddit.com - worth pushing for the fediverse again?

lemmy.world

Going by comments in the post, the required login is coming in waves, so not all people may notice immediately.

Still, as Reddit is strong-arming its way across, maybe worth signaling to people there that the fediverse may be used without an account, so long as there’s even one instance that implements logged-out view as the protocol allows it?

I don’t have access to my account any longer, possibly VPN ban, though I never tried to recover it so I can only guess why mine is lost, else I’d post myself.

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    Reddit Website now Forcing Account Creation like the App - Lemmy.World
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    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2 hours

      No, no pushing. If they come here, read it and like it, they’ll stay.

      We’re open, you don’t need accounts. (unlike all of those google searches that are worth shit now.)

      If they don’t, let them move on to bsky or threads or whereever they want.

    • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      I deleted mine. Since there was no “delete all posts” button I used bot that edited all into gibberish. It was funny watching countless private messages from multiple communities begging me not to do it this way. Apparently it makes moderation difficult or something.

      • Widdershins@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41 minutes

        Thank you for taking the time to salt the earth before leaving. It is important to cause as much headache as possible for the moderators over there while sunsetting an account. I never really contributed anything on reddit so the bridge I burned was via the report button. It felt like hurling turds into a cesspit for someone else to deal with until I got banned. A turd too far.

        • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish
          30 minutes

          It’s not even about moderation, I couldn’t care less about the mods. It was reddit that wanted me to manually click ‘delete’ button on every single one of my 10k comments from last 13 years, each individually - which is just massively disrespectful. So I used a bot. Free version of the bot was editing into gibberish, paid version offered full deletion. I couldn’t care less, just used free version and watched the mayhem. They’re free to ban me, report me to admins for breaking ToS, whatever. It would be actually funny if they banned a deleted acocunt.

          One of the last straws of disrespect was reddit demanding age verification for me to look at my own post history. It’s enshitification all the way.

    • PopesWorldwide@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      I’m on Lemmy for the first time today after discovering it because Reddit was doing this to me today. Good Riddance. Happy I found an alternative.

      • verifiedbyme@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 hours

        Hi! We joined on the same day for the same reason :D

        Edit: Nevermind, the little number next to my account name says I’m wrong. Apparently I have trouble reading a calendar.

    • Bio bronk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      Brother Lemmy has slowly taken over my new aggregator usage, conversations are better, with old reddit gone its even more of my usage going to lemmy

      • dil@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2 hours

        While I miss some hobby subreddits like blender. I lowkey get more inspo off ig, didn’t realize how many artists never post or get posted to Reddit. It’s a bubble that feels like it has everything. Also seeing other people’s work is oddly demotivating and I end up just scrolling/commenting more than I end up doing anything. Applies to any hobby really. I get all the dopamine of discussing stuff and imagining myself doing it, end up not doing it.

        • dil@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2 hours

          League of Comic Geeks replaced the comics sub for me, I wish it had a feed that wasn’t just time based tho. (only shows recent posts) Reddit was better for getting reccomendations.

      • mursejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6 hours

        Glad to hear this! I really want Lemmy to thrive while Reddit continues its enshitification.

    • w33n1s@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      I got the reddit block about a week ago, so I’ve given this place another try (first tried it after the reddit API fiasco). I would like lemmy if it were more active. I mostly used reddit for news headlines, and I haven’t found any communities here that are nearly as quick for breaking news and whatnot. I feel like my head has been buried in the ground since leaving Reddit. Still not going back though.

        • Taldan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4 hours

          I have Mastodon, but I just get infosec updates there. How would I get general news updates as well? Just follow a vunch of media outlets?

          • [email protected]@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1 hour

            AFAIK the key to discovery of content you want in Mastodon is to follow specific hashtags, then follow any accounts that you find interesting from there. There are definitely major network effects on Mastodon. Maybe check #news to see if it might be a good starting point for you.

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8 hours

      I joined Lemmy like a lot of others, when Reddit shut down the API. I soon went back to Reddit but also stayed on Lemmy.

      The big problem for me with Lemmy is it’s still way too small to use it the way I use Reddit. I’ve subscribed to a whole bunch of communities equivalent to the subreddits I read and comment on. On Reddit those subreddits have a few hundred people active on a daily basis, whereas on Lemmy they’re lucky to see 1 post and 2 comments a week.

      Small communities and real discussions were always what I liked about Reddit, never the big subreddits with millions of users. For now, anyway, Lemmy’s communities are just too small to foster those discussions (on the topics I’m still on Reddit for, anyway; there’s plenty of politics here obviously).

      • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2 hours

        we need a larger userbase, and more niche communities. I try and sub to every new one I see that I’m interested in

      • danciestlobster@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8 hours

        While I agree there isn’t a ton of discussion in a lot of communities here, I have had pretty good success just posting the questions myself in communities where relevant even if the community currently has almost no activity. Sure you don’t get 100s of responses but I do feel the response quality is higher here and ultimately that’s the only way to help lemmy grow to be more active in those communities

        • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23 minutes

          I’m not really a question poster though, I’m a question answerer. I think most people are like me, which is why tiny communities (but non-zero) don’t have any discussions: there aren’t enough question posters, just a lot of question answerers waiting around like kids at the school dance.

          • Auster@thebrainbin.org
            14 minutes

            Maybe a good middle ground would be to make posts answering questions others might have but that weren’t asked yet?

      • multifariace@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6 hours

        Me too! I never went back to Reddit though. I lost my account with rif that was carefully built over years. I still can’t figure out lemmy, fediverse, whatever it’s called. The tech is not something I care about. I want a simple and easy to use interface, like rif. But this is 1000 times better than dodging ads, bots and trolls on an over-capitalized website.

    • DWANG05@feddit.onlineEnglish
      6 hours

      I just laughed like a silly little nilly, because I just noticed this late last night after I decided on deleting reddit for good because it was just ragebaiting algo bs anymore. Funny seeing this, this morning, front and center. As someone else stated, all of these social media sites are going the X route for Cash. It’s definitely not about “keeping Reddit safe”.

      I think like some people on here, I only kept Reddit around because I can’t find Wrestling related communities, and i don’t wanna be a grounds keeper for it. There’s no substitute for /r/WoW… or at least widely used or populated for that matter.

    • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      How do you view the lemmy’s logged out? You have to choose an instance or can you irc (or is it icc)it? I don’t really know what I’m talking about so I’m probably using the wrong lingos.

      • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3 hours

        Most of the frontend apps let you browse things unauthenticated as far as I know. You can’t post/comment/vote without being signed up though, of course. You can also visit an instance’s url directly in the browser to look at things unauthenticated. So for your home instance, you’d just go to “https://lemmy.world/” in your browser. For my home instance, you’d go to “https://sh.itjust.works/” in a browser. Etc for the various other instances out there.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
        5 hours

        Just go to whatever instance url and you can see what’s on this instance as well as what’s on the instances it federated with. No need to login for reading. You are logged in lemmy.world so check jlai.lu for example.

          • Auster@thebrainbin.org
            2 hours

            If I may add, I’d also suggest picking a more generalist instance to have access to a broader range of posts, like lemmy.zip, lemmy.world (yours), or using other softwares, kbin.earth and piefed.social.

              • Auster@thebrainbin.org
                2 hours

                Dunno its history, but Kbin.earth is Kbin in name only, at least nowadays. The instance is powered by the engine’s currently maintened fork, Mbin.

    • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7 hours

      i would also suggest piefed over lemmy; not because one is better than the other but because piefed shows other related communities under a thread and might be easier to come over from reddit in terms of discovery.

      also it would be nice to have a master list of communities that match the reddit version.

    • freudian_slop@programming.devEnglish
      7 hours

      We need promotion outside of the Fediverse.

      Post it into your social media and chat groups. discord whatsapp signal telegram facebook and whatever you use.

      Don’t bother posting it on reddit because the mods or admin will delete it.

      • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2 hours

        what kind of promotion could you put on a sticker or poster? you could put those up around town

    • CriticalThought@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7 hours

      Cue the invariable “but what about my niches?!!1!?” I swear some people would stay on Reddit even if Steve Huffman personally killed their family and would kill again unless they got off the platform.

      • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2 hours

        I’ve thought of making a reddit account specifically to find stuff to repost here, but I haven’t gotten around to it. what’s a good way to go about doing that?

    • mangobanana@discuss.onlineEnglish
      8 hours

      I got ip banned for basically nothing. Posted a silly comment about nothing, mod banned me, didn’t realize and posted with the wrong account on the same group happened a couple of times since I was not paying attention, then bam all my accounts were banned for ban evasion. WTF I didn’t even comment anything offensive. Their automatic banning is bullshit. I didn’t do anything horrible enough to be site wide banned.

      • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2 hours

        I had my first reddit account for 10 years, then went through them every few months to dumb bans. it provides users a natural quitting point and makes gathering data on someone harder, which seem to go against their interests but I saw that’s a good thing. let them run it into the ground.

      • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        7 hours

        were you on a vpn at all? reddit is very picky about that and the ip might have been banned from another user.

        • mangobanana@discuss.onlineEnglish
          6 hours

          Oh no it was me that got banned and yes I had been on a VPN. But I just decided I’m not giving Reddit any of my eyeball time in order for them to make money off of me on ads