As of a few minutes ago old.reddit.com now seems to requre logging in to access it.
Shame as it was still the best place to browse for info about some niche interests.
Edit: Seems like they might be testing the change as it is hit or miss at the moment.
Edit: Adding this to My flilters in uBlock Origin seems to fix the issue for the time being:
||reddit.com^$header=referer:
Reddit being absolutely horrendous is what moved me to this site. I wish there was more people and more prominent communities though.
I’m so happy they started doing this. They made me want to really start switching to Lemmy
Reddit has some cool communities that don’t quite exist elsewhere, and even though I’ve found old-school forums for some of them, the vibe is different (usually older people who are often retired and can’t envision not having money or free time).
I used to pay a sub to Reddit but stopped back when they shafted Apollo. I wonder how things might have gone had Reddit focused on its community rather than the sad process of enshitificafion.
They probably are tightening down to try and slow AI scraper bots.
Either way, I’ve mostly given up Reddit for Lemmy anyway. I looked the other day and realized I haven’t even commented on Reddit in 4 months.
I found something interesting when I check a few hours ago. I was logged out to set the stage. I goto the main page it works. I use the search bar to find a sub and it works. But all the links on that subs page to related subs direct you to the “You have to log in”
So I was like, hmm what if I type one of these links into the search bar and see if I can get the link that way? It worked I could access the link that previous required a log in
I’m sure they will close that loophole and reddit will continue its decline…
Good. I knew reddit was going down the tubes when they stopped API access to 3rd parties.
Let it burn down.
Happened weeks ago for me. I begrudgingly made a throwaway account with a throwaway email.
Then they slapped me with age verification as well.
Fuck 'em.
They really love to punish any human left with any sort of connection to them. Luckily I already wiped them from ddg 😁. fuck spez
I discovered Lemmy last week. Lurked for a while, then finally created an account. The experience is much better than Reddit so I say good riddance.
Welcome!
Did the switch as well and feel the same. Welcome and Cheers!
Welcome ‘ere Bucky!
Thanks and Cheers!
Celeb Jeopardy responsible for at least threeve lulz
My oh my immaculate Wiki entry (spoilers if someone hasn’t seen, funnier after watching!)
So many funny Celebrity Jeopardy episodes, some one made a you tube playlist of some of the funnier ones. Great way to kill an hour 😂
Yay! Welcome! I’m pretty new too and I find the quality of conversation much higher over here.
Same! I’m new here as well. I’ve had better interactions over two days on here than I’ve had on reddit over half a year.
Le narwhal eats bacon at midnight! An updoot for you, good sir! You are a gentleman and a scholar. That’s a heckin cute pupperino, too precious do not deserve!
EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
To make you feel as if you never left
^ THIS
You are missing the second edit saying that this is your top post
I guess we have to make that post their top post now
MAh iNbLocKs R bLoWin uP!
And my axe!
Tips fedora
Here’s the thing…
Some tips:
- We do have some trolls, we’re getting more popular. If you feel like someone is picking on you, those are them.
- Active is the default, but can seem less active because the active posts stay up longer. I made my default Hot, but then I check Active and Top 6 Hours.
- You’re probably going to go through a withdrawel. It varies by person, but mine took about a week or two.
Welcome.
Welcome to the place where real people actually say real shit!
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We also have snarky dweebs apparently.
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Lies! There’s also star trek
Skill issue
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You suggest that there is only anime porn and Linux here, and yet, you are here. So either you loathe yourself, adore Linux and anime porn, or adore those things AND loathe yourself. I don’t think you’re in a position to be snarky, kiddo.
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I see similar comments every now and then. What exactly is missing here for you? There’s a community for almost anything except some niche topics
Local communities are lacking. We don’t have the critical mass for that.
More diversity, but since we’re commenting under a new user’s comment, that may be correcting itself.
Niche topics was all I ever used Reddit for, so in my case, Lemmy just doesn’t replace Reddit at all. None of the subreddits I follow have an active equivalent Lemmy community. They go from a few posts a day and dozens of comments on Reddit to “last post: 3 years ago” on Lemmy.
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You’re welcome
Hey there are some people here that are not into those things, we just got banned from that shit hole and refuse to give them my eye for their ads any longer.
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Gotta love how people continue to post this lol. Fuck spez.
Peg Spez
I assume this is some reddit thing from after I left
Why tits Garfield…?
Here’s an earlier comic that will help explain and add more questions for you.
I’m not sure what this would’ve explained. But more questions, yup.
Wow, Garfield has some rockin’ knockers. No wonder Jon never married.
The real question: why not tits Garfield?
Not only fuck. I hope for the worse to him.
I have faith he flips his bicycle and knocks out his front teeth, which still won’t be enough.
Lol. Like wtf even. I love it!
Yep loved old.reddit but nope, no more. Happy to be a Lemmyor now 😀 or whats the correct term? Lol. Cheers!
Lemtards
We’re lemmings. There’s a smooth way to say it.
Ha! Love it! Smooth indeed. Cheers!
Clearly BuckFutter wants to be LemMayor of the joint after hanging around for two days
Ha fair enough, I’ll go back to my hole now. Just happy to find a place that reminds of what reddit used to be like back in the 2010’s. Cheers!
The spirit of /u/RimjobSteve lives on, even as reddit perishes.
PieFedoras.
we’re the feds lol
Definitely federated
Brilliant!
I just call us Fedi. Like its all in compassing. IDK.
We are certainly something 😆
Lol I love it. So something akin to putting the fun in dysfunction? Lol
ha yeah!
Sweet. My kind of people 🤠 Cheers!
Welcome. If you ever miss the old reddit UI, check out https://old.lemmy.world/
Awesome and thank you. Yah I loved that UI and would love to enable it on my instance. Any idea on where to get the theme files for it? Thanks!
If you allow me to do a bit of self-promotion: https://code.mschae23.de/mschae23/mlmym (this is my fork of the software running on old.lemmy.world).
It’s a different frontend rather than just a theme, so it needs to be set up separately (similar to lemmy-ui). If you have any questions, feel free to ask me :)
Well that is really cool. Thank you for sharing and maintaining a cool looking interface. 😎 cheers!
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Ha thanks but nothing wrong with being a liberal or having an open mind on certain topics. Have a great day. 😀
How I envy your ignorance
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loook it’s an ML. loooook
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look at it
Fuck reddit.
If you need the old info download the archive. 99% of anything newer than 3 years is going to be bot slop. There’s zero reason to go to reddit intentionally.
Reddit archive? Whereabouts would I acquire that?
Steve is a jealous bitch and has made it harder to find archives of that content which he does not nor has ever owned. He’s like Smaug but with brain damage and an incredibly tiny penis.
Here’s one, you’ll have to hunt to find the big ones at this point.
https://academictorrents.com/details/85a5bd50e4c365f8df70240ffd4ecc7dec59912b
I’d wager that older dumps are higher quality, before the mass redactions and deletions of the various exoduses. If you’re looking for up to date information on current topics, it’s time to look for (or build) other places.
These are Pushshift torrents from 2005 to 2025: https://sciop.net/datasets/reddit. There are two data sets, one by month and the other by subreddit. Each is about 3.5 TB compressed and based on the compression ratio I’ve seen, about 30 TB uncompressed. This is without any sort of media, just text.
Reddit sent AcademicTorrents a request to take them down so AI models couldn’t use them as a way to avoid paying Reddit hundreds of millions of dollars for training data.
I too am interested. IA?
Agree.
Most of it sure, but there are still some active subreddits with human involvement I wish would switch to Lemmy.
Same. I have 1 or 2 subreddits I check for info/advice that I wish would just migrate over here. It just isn’t worth opening the reddit app and dealing with the worst of humanity being pushed on me anymore.
How feasible is it (legally, technically) to host a federated, read-only copy of Reddit data from before The Enshittening?
It depends how mad Temu Elon aka Steve Huffman gets about it. He incorrectly believes everything belongs to him.
Why bother?
Its all long since been injested by every gen AI model around, just ask one.
The problem with AI is that while 80% of the time it will provide correct information, but 20% of time it will generate very convincingly sounded bullshit.
This is the danger of it… You test it few times and then you start trusting it. Kind of like that farmer that destroyed his whole crop.
I agree. However I don’t think answers sourced from reddit are any more accurate.
Yeeeesss…, but typically it is easier to determine how reliable the person is from the test of the context.
Since Gemini is fed by the reason directly or might be fun exercise to ask it about yourself and while in some questions it will answer correctly or just loves to invent new things.
This works especially well if the person owning the account did not worry as much about privacy. So you hear many true things and also a lot of bullshit.
typically it is easier to determine how reliable the person is from the test of the context.
sure. that’s an advantage of reading off reddit.
an advantage of asking an LLM is that it can consider multiple reddit posts and stack overflow and whatever else.
you’re right that there’s an eternal problem of determining whether information is accurate or just confidently incorrect, but I don’t think that applies exclusively to chat bots.
You could make a zim file out of it and share the zim file. I imagine it would be quite large though.
Is there an easy way of doing that? As in is there an archive specifically for reddit or do you mean on one of the internet archive websites?
There’s zero reason to go to reddit intentionally
Know of a viable replacement for r/bapcsalescanada?
Run your own discussion board and literally tell people about it.
I don’t really have an interest in running a public board, and the reason I use(d) that subreddit was because I am also not interested in looking for the deals myself.
However, from another comment, redlib looks like a decent solution for the time being.
Welcome to Lemmy for the last reddit users, that used old.reddit, looks like we are complete now. The rest of reddit are noobs and bots.
I came here three years ago when they killed the API and Reddit is Fun on mobile. I refuse to use their mobile site but still used their desktop. If they kill old.reddit I guess I’m done then.
You can do it. Just delete your account. I did it. I live without Reddit now, and I’m happy. After a while you won’t miss that cesspool
Same here.
BTW: technically they just killed it.
Same here but when they killed Joey App. But I haven’t gone back for anything and refuse to use it at all. It’s so bad every time my wife shows me shit on there.
Same as me, except I never went back. I don’t spend as much time here as I used to on reddit, but most of that was wasted time anyway.
i only use it on the browser. got banned last year during the purges. you can make another acc after a while(unknown), with a fork, that reddit is not used to. i just use the niche subs, no interest in the main subs(where most are happening)
Used Lemmy for a while but still browsed reddit logged out a bit. I noticd this recently so its only Lemmy now.
BTW: there is libredirect browser extension which redirects Reddit to libreddit instances.
I am saying this, so people use that instead of giving up and logging in.
Nope, not listening. I am using the increased friction as a reason for giving up and not using reddit at all.
Yeah that’s even better. I think the libreddit code could perhaps be used to also to help bootstrap some communities on Lemmy (by just posting the same links).
Or maybe that’s already happening?
Now that sort of thing could be more useful
It’s why I moved onto Lemmy. I can’t stand new Reddit.
For me it was the API changes that was the final straw. 3 years ago.
I don’t use Lemmy as much as I did Reddit. But I’ve also never missed Reddit.
God, was that really 3 years ago?
I know right
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It’s really bean a long time
Probably a good thing, honestly. We all need to be more offline anyways.
Welcome
Same. Just joined as old and new Reddit have login walls now
Reddit is unusable without old reddit. Reddit.com is a horrible user experience.
Was only a matter of time before they out-digg’d digg.
Redlib still works, but it’s read-only (not a problem for me, I killed my Reddit account last year), and it’s probably a matter of time before that’s killed off too.
