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Reddit is becoming "a logged-in-only experience" (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 20 points 20 hours ago (9 children)

No matter how I look at it, this will only hurt their user base. Where are they going to get new users? I'm no tech billionaire, but I struggle to see how this benefits the site in the long term. Even if they revert later, the damage will already be done and the site will lose any relevance it once may have had.

I'm not interested in Reddit per se, just curious why they'd think this is a good idea.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Unfortunately that's not how it works. Once you have a sufficiently large userbase, the network effects are enough to sustain them. A ton of people use facebook still and that has been a logged-in experience forever. Same with instagram.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

You don't have to be signed into Instagram at least to view things someone has shared with you. It'll nag every now and then but it doesn't stop you.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

For me it stopped me plenty of times.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Yeah, plus, I have all Meta shit blocked in all my VLANs, which doesn't help either.

I just use this on my phone with a VPN to download whatever it is, see it, and then delete it:

https://github.com/naicolas-dev/socialmedia-downloader

Has worked every single time. I think it works for TikTok, but that is something I'm not even willing to try.

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