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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
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Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.

The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”

The Reddit employee wrote:

Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in.

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[–] Dymonika@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel like apart from niche communities, Lemmy now has critical mass to survive on its own!

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Unfortunately the niche communities are still the biggest reason I use Reddit.

Guess it's time for me to get off my lazy ass and create/contribute to the martial arts and piano communities

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I've just started trying to "be the change..." and all that by posting stuff in small communities that haven't been posted in in months/years. I get upvotes, so clearly some people are looking at them.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

There's a subreddit where there are thousands of people. The equivalent community on Lemmy has a dozen. I participate there, but it definitely isn't the same. I haven't logged into Reddit in a couple of years, and I browse that old subreddit using old.reddit if that disappears the choice is logging in or using new reddit, neither of which is going to work for me, so I guess that's it for me.