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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 1 week ago by 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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[–] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is kind of my problem here. There's a lot of hobby based communities in Reddit that hasn't made the move and pretty dead over here so it's what keeps dragging me back.

But gah, the new style is completely unreadable to me.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago*

    Unfortunately the only way to change that requires work. If community is dead it won't become active unless someone will post there and we might need to be the ones to do it.

    If you have some community that you would like, start posting there (if you don't know content you can copy from Reddit) as long as there is content and people interested in it, it will grow, but someone has to do the dirty work unfortunately.

    In the beginning it might be better to create generalized communities that encompass multiple topics so it would be easier to find people. Not start with very specific ones. That's how Reddit grew.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Exactly there's a lot and I mean a lot of very specific niche communities that you just can't find help with issues on any other platform. Especially stuff like health insurance denials and stuff like niche hobbies. I personally am pretty upset because they banned me over essentially nothing. And yes while it is my own fault because I had more than one username and posted in a community that I had been "banned" from a secondary username. I had absolutely no idea they would completely obliterate all of my logins and make it so I absolutely could not use Reddit at all. The IP banning nonsense should be illegal on a platform as big as Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, and Google. When they are essentially the biggest social medias they should not be able to ban you permanently for things that are basically nothing.

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