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Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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:

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

    Why bother?

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

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

    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 days ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days 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 days 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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