- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
- reddit@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
- reddit@lemmy.world
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:
You must log in or # to comment.
Seems like I just got hit with it too today or yesterday, and it was being rolled out since about a month ago. Sad.
Here’s a hackernews post on it (3 days old):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326106
Gotta love how people continue to post this lol. Fuck spez.
I assume this is some reddit thing from after I left
Why tits Garfield…?
Here’s an earlier comic that will help explain and add more questions for you.
I’m not sure what this would’ve explained. But more questions, yup.
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?
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.
Agree.
Most of it sure, but there are still some active subreddits with human involvement I wish would switch to Lemmy.
How feasible is it (legally, technically) to host a federated, read-only copy of Reddit data from before The Enshittening?
Why bother?
Its all long since been injested by every gen AI model around, just ask one.
Reddit archive? Whereabouts would I acquire that?
Steve is a jealous bitch and has made it harder to find archives of that content which he does not nor has ever owned. He’s like Smaug but with brain damage and an incredibly tiny penis.
Here’s one, you’ll have to hunt to find the big ones at this point.
https://academictorrents.com/details/85a5bd50e4c365f8df70240ffd4ecc7dec59912b
I’d wager that older dumps are higher quality, before the mass redactions and deletions of the various exoduses. If you’re looking for up to date information on current topics, it’s time to look for (or build) other places.
These are Pushshift torrents from 2005 to 2025: https://sciop.net/datasets/reddit. There are two data sets, one by month and the other by subreddit. Each is about 3.5 TB compressed and based on the compression ratio I’ve seen, about 30 TB uncompressed. This is without any sort of media, just text.
Reddit sent AcademicTorrents a request to take them down so AI models couldn’t use them as a way to avoid paying Reddit hundreds of millions of dollars for training data.
I cannot confirm this. I call on old.reddit.com roughly once a day (whenever I want to see something on reddit) and it never requires login. Not today either.
Could this be a regional thing?
VPN all over the US and I have not gotten the loggin popup either. I’m sure that will change 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.
Le narwhal eats bacon at midnight! An updoot for you, good sir! You are a gentleman and a scholar. That’s a heckin cute pupperino, too precious do not deserve!
EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
To make you feel as if you never left
You are missing the second edit saying that this is your top post
I’m going to try hard to make Lemmy the thing I open before Reddit.
I got banned from reddit after 11+ years (not entirely sure why). Never bothered to make a new account but did use old.reddit.com. That said, my reddit use has been dropping for months.
I guess I’m forced to not use it now. LOL.
Oh well.
I got a ban for updooting a post about Luigi. Reddit mods are fascists.
Same here, this is what got me banned. Member since 08.
I found something interesting when I check a few hours ago. I was logged out to set the stage. I goto the main page it works. I use the search bar to find a sub and it works. But all the links on that subs page to related subs direct you to the “You have to log in”
So I was like, hmm what if I type one of these links into the search bar and see if I can get the link that way? It worked I could access the link that previous required a log in
I’m sure they will close that loophole and reddit will continue its decline…
