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Reddit keeps pushing on being a closed platform, now rolling out mandatory logging for old.reddit.com - worth pushing for the fediverse again? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 hours ago by Auster@thebrainbin.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Going by comments in the post, the required login is coming in waves, so not all people may notice immediately.

Still, as Reddit is strong-arming its way across, maybe worth signaling to people there that the fediverse may be used without an account, so long as there's even one instance that implements logged-out view as the protocol allows it?

I don't have access to my account any longer, possibly VPN ban, though I never tried to recover it so I can only guess why mine is lost, else I'd post myself.

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[-] Shonzi@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

I actually just got the "You used old.reddit.com you need to log in to view" and decided to see if any more people had adopted Lemmy. It's more active than it was last time I was here, but probably still not active enough to move most casuals.

I'll probably come back for the next couple days and re-build my communities, and see if it can keep my attention, but I'm not holding my breathe.

It's unfortunate that Mastodon has also struggled, I'm glad Bluesky exists as an alternative but it would be nice to see federation more widely adopted by the masses. Maybe in time, with constant growth.

I saw the r/FauxMoi post today about the subreddit being marked sensitive information and de-prioritized by the algorithm and it's clear enshittification is in full swing, so it's just a matter of time before Reddit is mostly abandoned.

[-] Azal@pawb.social 4 points 4 hours ago

This is kind of my problem here. There's a lot of hobby based communities in Reddit that hasn't made the move and pretty dead over here so it's what keeps dragging me back.

But gah, the new style is completely unreadable to me.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 7 minutes ago

same, some tgc games, catching up on drama on certain tgc industry like mtg. PTGC, things that involves plants, animals, and a nich yt channel, location based subs.

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Mastodon has a decent usercount, but I really wish they would at least put a minimal effort into working with the Threadiverse better. It would be a huge improvement if they just made it so following a group/community didn't put all of the comments on your main feed. Also rendering the contents of Threadiverse posts instead of just giving you the title and link to it.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17008

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/139

Mastodon seems to really not care about any other platforms aside from themselves.

Maybe some other microblogging platform will take over some day, like Catodon.