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Don’t log into an account.
Browse the Internet like normal.
If x.com or reddit.com won’t let you view without privacy, they’re dead and useless.
Have some spine; lead, and stop following and being led by evil people and companies.
This is true for YouTube as well.
You can view YouTube logged out
Yep, I do that. I don’t subscribe, I bookmark.
You can even get RSS feeds for channels. I use Miniflux, and it’ll make a feed just from the channel URL, but I think there might technically be a “proper” URL for the feed that other clients might need instead.
Probably should look into that actually.
I cant. Librewolf, adguard home and other stuff running. It asks me to log in every time. I dont know whats the issue and tbh i really dont care.
Freetube on linux solves that for me tho.
Google are becoming increasingly hostile, sometimes not age-restricted content will show the same if it flags your IP etc. and then login doesn’t even work, with multifactor errors if again IP limited or flagged you don’t even get your MFA options, passkey prompt not appearing etc all of it I presume in service of bot protection but definitely also ad and app blocking
Lol Tumblr and instgran with its nonstop log in
Tumblr and Pinterest are on life support.
Insta and reddit still have enough inertia.
If they don’t make you log in, they lose sigint.
IF they do make you log in, they burn activity and users
Reddit will eventually fizzle out, Just another in a long chain of bad ideas trading short gains over long life.
Platforms with followers where it makes sense to have them, friends and followers on reddit always seemed odd to me
XCancel and redlib will let you browse both without an account, and while cutting out most of their ad revenue as well (bots/marketing accounts notwithstanding of course)
Firefox extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/redlib/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/xcancel/
Redlib is also much easier to use on mobile than old reddit, but posts are rate limited to every 12 hours or something. So it actually helps stop you from doom scrolling a bit too.
Stop using platforms that are actively locking you out. The reason they keep doing this is because people keep complying.
Thanks for forcing me reddit. Hello lemmy
Same.
Hi friend!
Nice. That is just enough of a barrier to stop be using reddit entirely. Not posted in years but sometimes read when bored enough.
Same, I’m 100% here now.
I still lurked since the api bs and after close to 20 yrs on reddit they pull this crap. They can get fucked.
Exactly why I’m here. I used RIF exclusively for a decade, then they killed it. I suffered with their browser version, but now they killed r/all and I ditched for good.
Thanks for the content you createdfor us, now log in to see it.
I can’t believe how bad it is now. There is no real news. It used to be interesting but it’s so watered down that it’s basically pointless. Couple that with the quality of major news outlets, and we’re basically experiencing a media blackout.
and the AI rage bait posts that are honey pots for pissed off venting that leads to Bans.
I’d add the ubiquity of paywalls these days contributes a lot as well. We used to have it so good.
404 media will allow reading with an account. I’m not sure of another way they can pay bills. I hear you, just don’t have an answer. I hate giving out my email for everything too.
Reddit is such a disgusting shit heap these days. There are still some subreddits worth lurking in but the majority is flooded with AI posts.
It used to be so nice.
much like everything private equity ruined.
Much like the internet in general. Anything that becomes popular in general goes the same path, even without private equity. That just accelerates it.
reddit is a fucking dumpster fire if you aren’t logged in… when i first joined lemmy i would still occasionally visit reddit when i got bored, but i wasn’t logging in and holy shit its a fucking cesspool!
if you aren’t logged in
Ngl, you had me in the first half
It is all bots. The actual remaining humans are there to make the same recycled jokes and argue with each other.
It is nice to not be on it (or here) constantly.
Yeah, you can’t talk there without risk of getting banned off the platform by chance. Sucks because a lot of well-built communities are there and most of what you need to ask can be found there.
I just want to tell the entire Minecraft community to pick up and leave. Would make my life way better if they just migrated over here. There is, unfortunately, a rule against cross promoting non reddit sites on their discord. Probably Microsoft’s doing…
Red reader on android works great.
Mine stopped working yesterday
I used to hit reddit forums for internet queries because they are usually at the top of search engines. Now I blow right past them to the next in theme answers (steam for gaming for example) because the join us we are a cult splash screen is annoying. Anyone that is going to create a reddit account/use the app ALREADY IS. The enshittification is so painfully bad.
Try ro access Reddit through Redlib.
Use LibRedirect to make the redirect automatic.
I didn’t even notice
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Yeah the level of bullshit from reddit is more than what I’m willing to tolerate so I’m permanently lemmy now. I ran reddit without apps, on firefox but they started blocking that. Every small thing results in a ban and I’m tired of changing accounts. Done.dont need it.
I can change my mac, get a new IP, get a private VPN but it just doesn’t seem worth it anymore to have a normal discussions on reddit without getting banned.
If I have a question - AI now resolves 99% of it. Everything else and discussions - Lemmy is fine and I can use a normal app with no ads
I wish AI could solve 99% of my questions. Asked it about growing some veg and it told me to plant seeds to a plant that isn’t even grown from seed.
If you are getting banned from new accounts on reddit, you probably were saying or doing some pretty swarmy things.
Don’t know why you’re being piled on. I’ve been on Reddit since the bad old days and I’ve only been temp banned (from certain subs at that) once, maybe twice lol. New accounts every yearish, fought about politics, called people names I probably shouldn’t have… I dunno what people are doing to catch all these bans.
It’s a corporate hellscape nowadays but there have always been rules about decorum.
You forced me to delete my account when you banned me for “abuse of report button”
After the API thing broke the moderator tools, abusing the report button was the only way to protest
