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:

Edit: Best bet now is to use a proxy like safereddit.com.

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[–] 257 points 3 months ago (26 children)

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.

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  • [–] 57 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Did the switch as well and feel the same. Welcome and Cheers!

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Some tips:

    • We do have some trolls, we're getting more popular. If you feel like someone is picking on you, those are them.
    • Active is the default, but can seem less active because the active posts stay up longer. I made my default Hot, but then I check Active and Top 6 Hours.
    • You're probably going to go through a withdrawel. It varies by person, but mine took about a week or two.

    Welcome.

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  • [+] -30 points 3 months ago (9 children)
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  • [–] 66 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    Welcome to Lemmy for the last reddit users, that used old.reddit, looks like we are complete now. The rest of reddit are noobs and bots.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    I came here three years ago when they killed the API and Reddit is Fun on mobile. I refuse to use their mobile site but still used their desktop. If they kill old.reddit I guess I'm done then.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    i only use it on the browser. got banned last year during the purges. you can make another acc after a while(unknown), with a fork, that reddit is not used to. i just use the niche subs, no interest in the main subs(where most are happening)

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Used Lemmy for a while but still browsed reddit logged out a bit. I noticd this recently so its only Lemmy now.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    BTW: there is libredirect browser extension which redirects Reddit to libreddit instances.

    I am saying this, so people use that instead of giving up and logging in.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Nope, not listening. I am using the increased friction as a reason for giving up and not using reddit at all.

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  • [–] 65 points 3 months ago (18 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Reddit archive? Whereabouts would I acquire that?

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Agree.

    Most of it sure, but there are still some active subreddits with human involvement I wish would switch to Lemmy.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Same. I have 1 or 2 subreddits I check for info/advice that I wish would just migrate over here. It just isn't worth opening the reddit app and dealing with the worst of humanity being pushed on me anymore.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    How feasible is it (legally, technically) to host a federated, read-only copy of Reddit data from before The Enshittening?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Why bother?

    Its all long since been injested by every gen AI model around, just ask one.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    The problem with AI is that while 80% of the time it will provide correct information, but 20% of time it will generate very convincingly sounded bullshit.

    This is the danger of it.. You test it few times and then you start trusting it. Kind of like that farmer that destroyed his whole crop.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I agree. However I don't think answers sourced from reddit are any more accurate.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeeeesss..., but typically it is easier to determine how reliable the person is from the test of the context.

    Since Gemini is fed by the reason directly or might be fun exercise to ask it about yourself and while in some questions it will answer correctly or just loves to invent new things.

    This works especially well if the person owning the account did not worry as much about privacy. So you hear many true things and also a lot of bullshit.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    typically it is easier to determine how reliable the person is from the test of the context.

    sure. that's an advantage of reading off reddit.

    an advantage of asking an LLM is that it can consider multiple reddit posts and stack overflow and whatever else.

    you're right that there's an eternal problem of determining whether information is accurate or just confidently incorrect, but I don't think that applies exclusively to chat bots.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    There's zero reason to go to reddit intentionally

    Know of a viable replacement for r/bapcsalescanada?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Run your own discussion board and literally tell people about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I don't really have an interest in running a public board, and the reason I use(d) that subreddit was because I am also not interested in looking for the deals myself.

    However, from another comment, redlib looks like a decent solution for the time being.

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  • [–] 56 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Gotta love how people continue to post this lol. Fuck spez.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I assume this is some reddit thing from after I left

    Why tits Garfield...?

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Here’s an earlier comic that will help explain and add more questions for you.

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  • [–] 48 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    It’s why I moved onto Lemmy. I can’t stand new Reddit.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    For me it was the API changes that was the final straw. 3 years ago.

    I don't use Lemmy as much as I did Reddit. But I've also never missed Reddit.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    God, was that really 3 years ago?

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  • [–] 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Reddit is unusable without old reddit. Reddit.com is a horrible user experience.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    This news finally convinced me to make a Lemmy account so I can participate a little more instead of lurk. That, and generally how awful Reddit has been becoming for like, several years at this point, since the IPO.

    I've swapped out RedReader on my phone's home screen with Boost; though I think it'll take some time to break the Reddit addiction.

    I am looking forward to seeing Lemmy's growth!

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    You're actually joining at a good time. When i created my account it was one post every few hours haha

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, it's quite active now, how exciting! I started browsing it just like I did RedReader last night and it didn't feel like I was missing out on news or conservations. Also I like the Boost UI in some ways more than RedReader's, so I'm sure that's helping make the transition easier lol. Reddit really shot itself in the foot destroying all the popular 3rd party apps, reddit is fun was my beloved. RedReader is nice to have still available, but it honestly doesn't hold a candle to rif's nice UI/UX. Boost being basically on par with rif for me is making letting go of reddit all the more easier.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Welcome to the last human holdout on the world wide web.

    I believe Boost Has Ads right? Im using Summit by @idunnololz@lemmy.world and its phenomenal. It has no ads and is highly customisable or at least the parts you would want to customise are. Its UI is up to date and feels right at home with the rest of Android Apps. Maybe you can give it a try, or not if Boost works for you. :)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    It do feel quite human in here, thank you thank you. :)

    I think Boost does have ads, but it seems like I probably paid for premium at some point because I haven't seen any. Way to go, past me. (I'll be sure to check out Summit though, it looks quite nice too!)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Welcome! Lemmy lives on active participation, and you made the right call. Besides, the chatter here can get lively!

    Not to mention we have some Lemmywide games and activities from time to time (the most recent being the Season 4 of !thebutton@lemmy.zip, the basic idea of which you may recognize from Reddit), and you'll need an account to take part!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I was addicted to reddit. They killed the Reddit is Fun app that I used every day for 10 years, so I had to switch to Lemmy. It was the best thing that happened to me. It took me a few days to stop missing reddit but I am so much happier with Lemmy and never want to go back there again.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I have a similar story, but in response to their action against RIF, i just started lurking old.reddit without an account (as matter of principle, I stopped using my account). Now I've finally made the switch, but am having trouble navigating here. What are your fav communities on lemmy, if I may ask? Honestly quite happy that they removed my access to reddit, as now I can participate in dedicated forums like in the internet of old, before the massive internet hubs AKA reddit, insta, fb etc :)

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Nice to see Reddit helping contribute to growth in the fediverse.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    That's what brought me here. And so far I am loving it. Wish I had made the switch long ago.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I'm on my second account, (got a new phone and couldn't remember my password) but the nice thing is that it doesn't affect anything because it doesn't keep track of votes overall.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    I'm not sure we want a lot of the trolls or bots here.. Fortunately, I feel like they'd go to instances which lemmy world is de-federated from fortunately though.

    It's fairly obvious in a lot of the local subreddits that there are a huge amount of lobbyists (same as facebook). Like the gun/pro-vaping people posting at 2AM really stand out in them

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