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:

  • ooo_shiny@lemmy.nz
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    2 hours ago

    Reddit has some cool communities that don’t quite exist elsewhere, and even though I’ve found old-school forums for some of them, the vibe is different (usually older people who are often retired and can’t envision not having money or free time).

    I used to pay a sub to Reddit but stopped back when they shafted Apollo. I wonder how things might have gone had Reddit focused on its community rather than the sad process of enshitificafion.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    They probably are tightening down to try and slow AI scraper bots.

    Either way, I’ve mostly given up Reddit for Lemmy anyway. I looked the other day and realized I haven’t even commented on Reddit in 4 months.

  • TIEPilot@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    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…

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    7 hours ago

    They really love to punish any human left with any sort of connection to them. Luckily I already wiped them from ddg 😁. fuck spez

  • TechSquidTV@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I’m sick of reddit. I’ve been banned three times for calling out Nazis. Nazis don’t get banned though

  • An1m4L@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    https://redlib.catsarch.com/ <- this works for me but, like most comments are saying, reddit became a stinkhole of bots, agendas and stealth advertising. it kinda makes me sick to go there nowadays.

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    22 hours ago

    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?

  • ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    Reddit thinks they’re an exclusivity club nowadays. Love that mentality for them, just a platform full of bots, misinformation purposed for political polarization.

    They wouldn’t even let me delete my account last week, “errors occured” so I just uninstalled. Good riddance.

  • Teknikal@anarchist.nexus
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    20 hours ago

    Reddit has gotten really lame, there’s always been saddos who troll through entire post history’s when they can’t win an argument.

    Lately they’ve changed stratagies to calling people underage instead hoping mods delete accounts or something I guess. It just comes across as absolutely pathetic to me.

    But yeah Reddit is definitely breaking old.reddit on purpose and will probably be just mostly bots soon .