I tried visiting old.reddit.com yesterday and it was a redirect to a login page that appeared to be the modern ui. So I guess PC browsing is off the table, Reddit’s modern ui is trash.
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2026
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I think he might've misunderstood a message and thinks there's really that many people who want to have sex with him...
If it was bots they'd have to shut the whole site down.
Reddit never gave a shit about bots. To them it's something that pumps up their active users numbers to woo their investors. They're only doing this so they can force people to view their ads that are designed to look like posts.
Who goes on Reddit nowadays anyway?
Unfortunately a good chunk of linux distro resources and troubleshooting, and also many hobby stuff is over there.
Seems like most people don't really care about or understand stuff like "private platforms enshittify". Certainly not enough to be inconvenienced. People will be like "that's where the good memes are" or "that's where my video games post". Heavens forbid you miss the hot memes.
I still go on reddit often since that's where most of the game communities I want to hear from are.
Booo
I don't doubt that it's because of the bots but it also conveniently forces people into their enshittified "modern" interfaces.
because of AI bots
because they want to charge people for the privilege to have their users data
Thanks for fixing it
Today in "no fucking shit news" reddit continues to suck and water makes things wet. Next week on "everyone already knows this" join us when we reveal our breaking stories "republicans are traitors to the constitution, and spez sucks donkey dicks"
Reddit is slowly dying. It will eventually be 100% bots.
Anything with an even mildly AI-adjacent topic is a solid 75% bots right now...
/r/nvidia, /r/amd, /r/hardware, etc, etc..
When I left Reddit years ago I was already convinced than more than half the accounts were bots.
During the exodus, it felt like 20-30%
Bots my ass
Yeah…
AI bots….
That’s why.
reddit dies more every day than the day before and it’s already long dead
The reddit community that I'm still sort of active in relies on RSS in order to run and judge contests. We have a portal which sucks comments in via RSS because they revoked the API key which was used for the same purpose.
Without RSS, we'll either have to come up with some other way to pull in reddit comments, or force everyone to use PieFed.
My vote is for the latter, of course!
They're very much making it hard to be a mod. I wish my community would follow me here.
Reddit is such a tucking corpo
It is literally a corporation.
A literal corpo!!! In the flesh! With human rights!
Damnit what have we become?!?!?
What is reddit? I thought it died in like 2023. I know I haven't used it since they killed the third-party apps for it.
I thought this was what they did a few years ago.
Sure...
There's a public API?
Yes, but what was left of it after killing third-party apps was basically just advanced search functions. Nothing in the API was still usable as far as browsing/posting.
I knew it was time to go after the "He gets us." Jesus banner ad.
I'm guessing AI companies are going to start promoting piefed and lemmy.