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 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.
Did the switch as well and feel the same. Welcome and Cheers!
Yay! Welcome! I’m pretty new too and I find the quality of conversation much higher over here.
Welcome!
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
Reddit is unusable without old reddit. Reddit.com is a horrible user experience.
Nice to see Reddit helping contribute to growth in the fediverse.
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?
Why aren’t they just making the new version better, so that people are happy to use it?
They want the shareholders happy, not the people.
Gotta love how people continue to post this lol. Fuck spez.
Peg Spez
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.
I’ll just keep saying it…
Fuck spez, the greedy tiny penis-head that he is.
I knew it was over when the CEO payed himself 200 million the year before it went public (or whatever) he basically looted the fucking place cause he knew it’d be worthless soon after
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
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.
Yep loved old.reddit but nope, no more. Happy to be a Lemmyor now 😀 or whats the correct term? Lol. Cheers!
PieFedoras.
We’re lemmings. There’s a smooth way to say it.
While I’ve been on Lemmy for a while, I haven’t really seen any hobby - centric or geek centric areas.
I’ll miss the movie threads in particular, but there were a ton of active crafts, art & ttrpg threads to get inspiration from. Any suggestions?
I’ve been struggling to find a movie thread replacement. Seems like all the movie communities are dead. Any recommendations?
What do u mean? Just search for movies and television communities - piefed has largest
