Bruh you don't even have to be using lemmy to use lemmy. I seen @mastadon people all the time up in here.

Yeah, this is them closing holes in their blocking browser access over a VPN. And also tracking their users so they can sell data to advertisers.

I think scrapers typically run with javascript disabled, and new reddit doesn't load at all that way

Actually new reddit page source doesn't load comments anymore. You need to execute JavaScript in the page for comments now. Old reddit still gives you a simple page with comments, so probably why they made it login only. You can't legally scrape pages behind login because you agreed to their tos by logging in

New Reddit is such a shit tier interface though.

If I've learned anything over the past decade, it's that people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification

Enshittification will continue until morale improves

they have too large of a presence of many of the main subs, like sports, celebrity gossip, movies/shows,,,etc, the og news and politics sub too, and then every new sub that popped up related to news or politics, thats probably where all the anomisity is coming from since the bans are likely coming from these giant subs. sports being another one, and now INDIA too. plus tons of porn subs, and OF peddling subs.

It's the mlmym frontend, rather than just a theme.

Some instances run it locally as an alternate at a different URL; lemmy.world is one such.

this is the first steps to require facial recognition and ID down the line, much like FB does.

I use it while logged on to keep trying to sway people over to Lemmy, haha. After all, that's how I found this place...

Enshittification. They have their users locked in, and now it's about trying to make money for their advertisers.

Oh this is nothing. They're currently testing identity verification. As in, "send a pic of your government-issue ID to Persona so they can check who you really are" (and cross-reference you with other sites that use Persona, like LinkedIn etc.)

I'm also surprised they're still allowing old accounts that don't have an email. Or that they're not mandating everybody to add and verify their phone number "for security and 2FA" – another excellent way of cross-referencing people against all kinds of databases. Just imagine what they can get if they work out a deal to share your phone number with Google, or Amazon.

Disabling mobile browser users with an unclosable popup was the drop for me lol

Are they? It seems like reddit's main user base is bots and AI.

with them going public with the company, it was a death knell. and constantly trying to appease MUSK has caused a lasting effect. he was the reason why so many people got banned in purges last year.

Yeah, this will be quite a loss… genuinely a shame. It sucks that we can’t scrape and rebuild a copy of the whole site…

There's a website called Reddtastic that works great!

Huh, I... didn't even think of that. I suppose people could download all the old content before this kicks in, at least, but yeah, that'll be the loss of new stuff moving forward, unless people can sway them over to nsfwlemmy.

Guess you might have to join the untold numbers of throwaway accounts made for that specific purpose

I feel like apart from niche communities, Lemmy now has critical mass to survive on its own!

I spent months deleting my old reddit comments. And I'd have to type in my username on a search engine after about a month or two and find more of my old comments and delete those too.

I know the bots already scrapped my contributions. I wanted to say fuck off to to Reddit and take back my contributions.

Yup.

I only use old Reddit at work on a computer now. I create a new account every day as it takes that long for them to shadowban me. I get a handful of comments in, get a number of upvotes/downvotes and influence opinions, then I create a new account when I get into work the next day.

Don't have time for a shitty platform on weekends as I have better things to do and I don't care to use it on mobile, even though RedReader still works and looks like old Reddit.

I'm in a similar boat. Deleted my accounts. Visit a few old communities that are hard to move on from, but old.reddit has always been my line in the sand.

Guess it’s time for me to start back on building the sports communities on the fediverse, goodbye forever /r/cfb

Same, minus the VPN. I popped on to check my community subs.

Or just get banned. It'll hide all your posts.

Can you even do that anymore? AFAIK Reddit now caps the amount of comment history they show you so how do you find your comments to change them?

I guess if you're EU you can request a dump of all your data as a GDPR request and find the permalinks for all your comments in there.

Honestly, Lemmy has been good for me in some ways because it isn't as popular and doesn't have the deep niche communities reddit has that I was super active in.

I get more accomplished now because I essentially "finish" my Lemmy browsing and move on, whereas reddit always had something else for me to dive into.