It's quite a shame that the vast majority would rather stay on a platform that hates its users than come here, but I guess that's how humanity works

Nearly 20 years on Reddit. I survived the Digg Wars, API/RiF fiasco, and the infiltration of bots.

But I am so done with the anti-user direction Reddit has gone. So here I am.

is it fully rolled out in the world? I am still able to access reddit without an account.

Hello guys, thats why I got Lemmy since I have read that today!

Time to log out from reddit.

Thanks for curing my reddit addiction, spez.

I guess I kind of understand why companies want you to be logged in to engage with their platform, as the user metrics are the main selling point to advertisers, but man do I really fucking hate it when a platform forces me to log in by preventing me from using their website. So much so, that I haven't made an account on Instagram or X or Facebook or whatever dumb social media platform specifically because I can't browse without signing up. Well, that, and also the greed, the lack of privacy, the tacit endorsement of fascism, et. cetera.

No, I don't want to make an account.

No, I don't want to download your app.

No, I don't want to turn on notifications.

Gah, fuck off with all this horseshit. The internet used to be fun. Now everything is a chore and nobody does anything unless they feel like they can make a profit off of it.

“We’re making the change because it’s better for user experience, better for our ads business, is more in line with safety regulations, and more protective of Reddit data,” he explained.

According to Huffman, Reddit has grown to the point where personalization is increasingly necessary to help users find relevant communities and discussions.

In short- we can't datamine you if you're not logged in, we can't build a behavioral profile on people without accounts, we lick the boots of governments that'll demand ~~ID checks~~ age verification, and it makes it harder for AI bots to scrape the site without paying us. Really there's no downside to anyone at all, it's a win-win. Oh it's bad for users and bad for the Internet? Is that important? Those groups don't pay us, right?

lul

You can't even find news on reddit anymore. Who gives a shit.

According to Huffman, Reddit has grown to the point where personalization is increasingly necessary to help users find relevant communities and discussions.

More lies from Spez.

The change could also benefit Reddit’s advertising business by allowing it to serve more personalized ads

The actual reason.

Maybe don't hand out bans like a single old lady on Halloween. I got banned for saying we need to punch all Nazis.

I can log and read a source for some tech help, then leave immediately. If you want engagement, unban everyone and return to the wild west.

it might as well have been already, if you use a VPN you're surely accustomed to the Fedora Teletubby

It's a shame because it's genuinely a useful repository of information. I wish infinite humiliation and discomfort upon Reddit's leadership.

I remain utterly discombobulated that 90% of redditors haven't already migrated here. What exactly are they waiting for? Lemmy clearly is more than good enough already.

It's becoming a "fuck this I'm going somewhere else" experience.

I just came here from there. Reddit is getting weird AF

According to FediDB there has been a 1.7% growth this month. Meaning 244,051 new accounts have been created on fediverse on the past 30days. Almost 250thousand people in a month. I'm sure this is completely coincidental

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

A moment of silence for those gooners who, for one reason or another, need to goon anonymously...

They are going to end up burning the whole thing to the ground in a bid to make investors money on something that never had hard quantifiable monetary value to begin with in a way that you could easily turn up the dial on "line go up" enshitification like Google can with ad impressions.

Its a fancy web forum, a big popular one for sure, but there are God knows how many similar options out there already competing for users. There is a very low ceiling on just how profitable it could ever be as a business all on its own.

There is a reason a lot of these websites, like Gamespot for example, ended up consolidating into holding companies that own a bunch of them.

Front page of the internet my ass

Good! Finally the last holdover users will reconsider open source alternatives

What we need now is for every modteam on Reddit who have an alternative on Lemmy, to actually advertise it. Now is the time to do so.

A pinned post should do great to point people in the right direction

How funny, it's been a logged out only experience for me for years now.

As crazy as it may sound, Reddit is a treasure trove of information, especially when it comes to niche technology stuff. Would be a shame for them to lock it all behind accounts, and in my case age verification.