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Reddit is becoming "a logged-in-only experience" (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 10 hours ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 37 points 9 hours ago (10 children)

It won't be long before the website is gone entirely and you have to use the app.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

    I think that's the overall goal. Much harder to block ads and they can collect a ton more data.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago (7 children)

    Much harder to block ads and they can collect a ton more data.

    Not really if you use these patches.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

    I sadistically don’t like this.

    Generally I’m all for things like this, but I don’t want there to be workarounds and backdoors to prolong reddit’s life.

    It want the acceleration towards its death to increase. I don’t want people to be able to enjoy it so that the spell of the addiction (one I was guilty of) can be broken.

    I think we can all do our part by blocking the website from our search results. Let it just hemorrhage and die with its bot network and shitty people.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 hours ago* (5 children)

    Until you find or create a replacement that is easier to use than Reddit/Lemmy/PieFed and appeals to the same gigantic audiences as well as serve heroic amounts of web traffic as much as reddit serves each hour of each day without lag or latency, it will never die within your lifetime.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    You could have said the exact same thing about Digg or MySpace 15 years ago.

    Reddit is difficult to replace, but not nearly as difficult as you imply. Serving a lot of web traffic with low latency is a well documented and solved problem. And a competitor does not go from zero to 100 million users over night, they have plenty of time to scale. Countless companies have accomplished this.

    Reddit is, by and large, an extremely basic concept. It's a link sharing site with comment trees. Undergrads could spin up a similar website in a week, albeit less scalable. But again, there is plenty of time to figure out the scaling issue.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    Lol, websites are born and die constantly. Nobody knows what the next big thing will be but reddit will definitely die within our lifetime.

    Remember MySpace? How about Friendster?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago (2 children)

    Sounds like a win either way to me!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago* (1 child)

    I think you may have misunderstood what I'm saying: you can't kill reddit. You can only try to atrophy their users with better sites that only attract their niche audiences, including their shitty users as well.

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