- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
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:
Edit: Best bet now is to use a proxy like safereddit.com.
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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.
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.
Yeah it just hit me. I deleted all my accounts over a year ago and just look around on there. I guess no more looking.
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!
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
You are missing the second edit saying that this is your top post
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.
Did the switch as well and feel the same. Welcome and Cheers!
Welcome ‘ere Bucky!
Thanks and Cheers!
Seems like I just got hit with it too today or yesterday, and it was being rolled out since about a month ago. Sad.
Here’s a hackernews post on it (3 days old):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326106Yep loved old.reddit but nope, no more. Happy to be a Lemmyor now 😀 or whats the correct term? Lol. Cheers!
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!
PieFedoras.
Reddit being absolutely horrendous is what moved me to this site. I wish there was more people and more prominent communities though.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Reddit is unusable without old reddit. Reddit.com is a horrible user experience.
Reddit thinks they’re an exclusivity club nowadays. Love that mentality for them, just a platform full of bots, misinformation purposed for political polarization.
They wouldn’t even let me delete my account last week, “errors occured” so I just uninstalled. Good riddance.
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.
Yeah same, the death of RIF was the nail in the coffin for me.
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
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.
Agree.
Most of it sure, but there are still some active subreddits with human involvement I wish would switch to Lemmy.
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.
How feasible is it (legally, technically) to host a federated, read-only copy of Reddit data from before The Enshittening?
Why bother?
Its all long since been injested by every gen AI model around, just ask one.
does the
||reddit.com^$header=referer:fix still work? I can’t seem to get it this wayNope doesn’t seem so. Your best bet now is to use a proxy like safereddit.com.
Hm. Thanks, I’ll be using this and other instances for historical/other important posts that are only on Reddit for now.
I’ll just keep saying it…
Fuck spez, the greedy tiny penis-head that he is.
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?
This news finally convinced me to make a Lemmy account so I can participate a little more instead of lurk. That, and generally how awful Reddit has been becoming for like, several years at this point, since the IPO.
I’ve swapped out RedReader on my phone’s home screen with Boost; though I think it’ll take some time to break the Reddit addiction.
I am looking forward to seeing Lemmy’s growth!
You’re actually joining at a good time. When i created my account it was one post every few hours haha
