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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 5 days 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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[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

How do you view the lemmy’s logged out? You have to choose an instance or can you irc (or is it icc)it? I don’t really know what I’m talking about so I’m probably using the wrong lingos.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Just go to whatever instance url and you can see what's on this instance as well as what's on the instances it federated with. No need to login for reading. You are logged in lemmy.world so check jlai.lu for example.

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Thanks!

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 points 4 days ago

If I may add, I'd also suggest picking a more generalist instance to have access to a broader range of posts, like lemmy.zip, lemmy.world (yours), or using other softwares, kbin.earth and piefed.social.

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I thought kbin closed?

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 4 days ago

Dunno its history, but Kbin.earth is Kbin in name only, at least nowadays. The instance is powered by the engine's currently maintened fork, Mbin.

[-] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I think most of the lemmy apps will work right away without logging in.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Most of the frontend apps let you browse things unauthenticated as far as I know. You can't post/comment/vote without being signed up though, of course. You can also visit an instance's url directly in the browser to look at things unauthenticated. So for your home instance, you'd just go to "https://lemmy.world/" in your browser. For my home instance, you'd go to "https://sh.itjust.works/" in a browser. Etc for the various other instances out there.

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