Reddit now won't let non-logged in users see subreddits until they've been "reviewed"

This is why the weekend DDoS attacks and frontpage vandalism don't really concern me. With spez and Musk burning their services to the ground, we're (along with other competitors, we're not the only one) going to get a steady influx pressure for the coming months or even years. Shutting us partly down for a few hours every weekend does nothing in the face of this much stronger phenomenon. Whoever is doing it is basically pissing into the wind.

If you install the duckduckgo browser and turn on app tracking protection, you'll see just how much data is harvested from mobile apps, which is genuinely scary.

This is why these sites are pushing the mobile app. It's much harder to prevent trackers through an app than it is through a web browser.

The enshittification proceeds apace. Fuck u/spez.

Someone should answer the phone because we all fucking called it.

What's next in the Reddit bingo?

The removal of old reddit?

Limiting the number of posts we can see per day as a normal user?

Buy upvotes?

The slippery slope logical fallacy doesn't count when there is actual factual evidence.

He's just trying to protect people from inappropriate content. We all know how harmful inappropriate content can be for children unless it's paired with targeted advertisements, which mitigate the danger.

No wonder King Steven was so incensed when the Landed Gentry cut off access to the site from commoners; it's a privilege he reserves as a Royal Prerogative....

I'm now only on lemmy and YouTube. Never got into tictok or Facebook, left and deleted reddit and Twitter. I'm in a happy place.

I called this happening right when Spez said he wanted to emulate elon. The other shoe has dropped

I assume eventually all subreddits will be locked to non registered users on mobile…and PC

Enshittification continues…

Remember, corporations are never your friend. I remember when redditors thought spez was "one of them".

They're doing great work on their destroy any positive community sentiment Speedrun, it's been shocking decision after terrible change

Let's dump Reddit for ever for good.

all to sell some ads

Looks like more efforts to sanitize the place in prep for an ipo.

The execs are almost certainly ready to cash out and retire from that annoying gig 🤣

But just wait until a wallst level CEO gets hold of the reigns.

Having tried /r/politics, /r/eve, and /r/valheim, I was going to point out how I didn't get the screen you got. However, /r/nyt gets this message. As an aside, /r/politics, /r/eve, and /r/valheim are verified while /r/nyt is not is interesting to me. Upon further testing, /r/nytimes works. Seeing how /r/nyt has 411 subscribers, while /r/nytimes has 8,431 subscribers, I think smaller, less well known subreddits will run into issues while larger subreddits or subreddits that are more well known will have no accessibility issues.

It's also interesting that this block doesn't exist if you navigate to old.reddit.com/r/nyt instead of just reddit.com/r/nyt. You think they would have just repurposed the page that asked if you if you were over 18 before going to a nsfw subreddit for this task, but old.reddit.com seems completely overlooked as of now.

old.reddit.com on the Firefox Android app looks bad, but I wonder if someone could make an extension to automatically redirect users to old.reddit.com when navigating to reddit.com, as well as an extension that changes the layout of the page to something more mobile friendly, similar to RES but for your phone's browser. That might make reddit usable on mobile without the official app until old.reddit.com goes away or they try to implement some sort of user agent string check.

Anyone noticed how Lemmy links are blocked and shadowbanned in Reddit?

I wish there was a way to accelerate widespread adoption of Lemmy.

Reddit has been awesome, but the community deserves a decentralized platform free from bullshit like this.

Another reason for get out of Reddit

Reddit desindexed by Google in 3....2....1....

This is gonna work SO WELL, as per Twitter teachings

For now old.reddit still works.

My operating assumption here is that Reddit can collect more data to sell if people are logged in and use their app.

Does not matter if you destroy 75% of the usefulness of the system if the remaining 25% can be more effectively monetized.

Yeah this move has killed all interaction with Reddit for me. I only open a reddit page now if it's in my google results for something I'm searching, but the last few times I've hit this message. There's thousands of subs that are never going to get reviewed because they're small and I'm sure at the absolute end of their queue.

reddit and twitter are literally competing to see who can destroy their platform first and unfortunately they're both winning

Old.reddit is next, the new Reddit design is shit on purpose to make you use their app.

The second Digg 4.0 speedrun any%

It's interesting because they justify it by saying it's for compliance (eg, because logged out users haven't answered affirmatively that they're over 18). Gives them cover when we all know the real reason they're locking it down

Fuck spez

Hear me out.

Elon destroys twitter and eventually makes it a joke and no one can be trusted cause the process of verification for that is a joke now.

Spez destroys reddit. Shuts down 3rd party apps. The majority of people have to decided whether to stay or leave.

The SAG and WGA go on strike because of wage issues, now shows like Last Week Tonight and other shows that take deep dives into the problems of government can't make shows that inform people.

All of this is, in my opinion, to shut down public conversations about many issues and the timing is also coincidental since the 2024 election is coming up and in a time everyone is divided, there is no comfortable place to communicate. The curiosity is if trumps social media and other right leaning communities are facing the same disruptions. Not saying reddit and twitter are bastions of the "left" but twitter and in particular reddit have been a place for public good. Now twitter is a hallway that is almost completely covered in fecal matter and reddit is a poorly designed website that blinds you with advertisements and OF spam bots.

Elon I can see doing it maliciously, because he benefits from a Republican government. Edge Lord Jr has probably doing it because Senior told him it was a good idea. The survivability of these companies are not in their interest because why care if you can just close it down claim the sale and go make more money somewhere else.

But the biggest one is the "Late Night" shows. Most of them are the way some Americans get informed about some of the more deeply rooted problems in America. You can look at shows like John Olivers, Last Week Tonight and maybe Late Night with Seth Meyers. Shows very critical of Republicans and trump in particular, completely crippled by the SAG and WGA strikes.

In total the information delivery systems we are all used too, have been dirupted and I'm seriously questioned its timing.

Good thing I left there when Sync shutdown.

Wasn't one of Spez's bucket list to have his own private bunker for the apocalypse? This is it. Secured. Contained. Protected. Isolated. But also dead.

Try old.reddit.com in the browser. It is not pleasant but it works on mobile.

Has Elon Musk secretly bought Reddit as well?

death rattles of a dying app

Did Elon Musk enforce post view limit ? I don't know about that

Search is broken in Reddit right now (for me at least). Best part is, it doesn't always report an error, just pretends there are no results.

Oh, and Reddit Status doesn't know yet.

They really are morons.

Somehow the same content become appropriate just because some people know how to download an app.

Good. This further hinders their ad revenue.

Spez suckin some musky dic

Stop. Its already dead.

they made this change months ago, nothing new

So glad I rewrote all my comments before getting out of there.

It's always been like this for potentially nsfw subreddits

Just use old.reddit.com if your still going to view reddit...

Yeah, it is not as nice as the modern version (modern version iscomplete and total garbage imho), but the old.reddit.com still functions and gives you the exact same content without the hassle of the modern site. Just not as nicely formatted for mobile...

But it is only a matter of time till they get rid of it too.

Looks like they’re using a bullshit excuse to funnel people into their mobile app.

They're getting desperate.

In other words, "censorship" -- "We shape this site our way and there is nothing you can do about it."

Aaaand that is the final nail in the coffin for me. Rip in pepperonis plebbit.

I genuinely believe that Reddit and Twitter are concerned about AI scraping their website thus allowing users to access the data without visiting the actual websites.

This, to me, is another benefit of the fediverse. These instances don’t care if AI is scraping their data because they aren’t in it to monopolize the user created content. They don’t create the content and they recognize they don’t own the content.

So long as the instances are financially solvent, they are happy.

Reddit on mobile browser is actual dogwater. Tho most social media apps are extremely hostile towards non-App users.

Sounds like a good reason to delete all your content that they profit off of and stop using it...

It won't even let you sort comments until you log in, like ffs

I go there for a couple of smaller subreddits I still visit (barely starting out on Lemmy, tough). But a lot of content seems to be slowing down, like 2 day-old threads on the home tab (I only go on desktop with adblockers).

This is obviously anecdotal, and have no numbers to back it up. We'll have to see how it goes into the future. Reddit just keeps pissing off their core users time and time again.

Ehhhh. This could just be their current stopgap because of all of the NSFW swaps happening. I think you are extrapolating too much.

Don’t get me wrong, I could totally see Reddit enacting this policy in their “infinite wisdom” and quietly rolling it out. But you are drawing too much from this screenshot. We need more context.

You can use old.reddit.com without issue.... for now.......

This isn't new, tell your phone to show desktop site to bypass all their mobile bullshit.

Degenerate rich kids don’t like how they’re being talked about. The only worse thing than elites is their children.

This isn't new. It has been this way for like a year.

Is this for posts that mods haven't manually approved, or is it completely random which posts have not been 'reviewed'? I swear I've seen this on posts with thousands of upvotes that surely must have been approved by then...

They’ve made it impossible to browse on mobile without the app. I keep getting Reddit posts as google answers that I can’t open

Last I checked, you can just change the url to old.reddit.com to get around stupid shit like this. Does that no longer work?

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I'm not seeing this message on any subs, including the small subs I frequent.

I'm sure this has been said, but they did that for a while at least on my end. Mostly big front page content was blocked in my experience

Hopefully more apps for lemmie come out by then so I can completely say goodbye to Reddit.

Copy cat. Nothing original

Press the dots in the top corner and see if there's a "desktop version" button. That gets around the block for me.

Are we certain the Muskrat isn't involved with Reddit in some way or is it just u/spez emulating his hero?

Link still works in old reddit

Libreddit and Teddit may be dead, but Kddit still works. Eddrit also does the trick, but occasionally gets overloaded.

Old thread, but as best I can tell, old.reddit.com is still going strong. No forcing you to sign in, no padding out the ass.

I'm a bit late, but it can be bypassed by using old reddit.

Good luck with that.

Musk is getting all the publicity when it comes to boneheaded ways that he has ruined Twitter, but Spez doesn't get the same attention.

I say he is booted from the top job by the time Fall comes around. They will say he is stepping down for personal reasons.

My goodness, if only you knew her many times I clicked to view the content before I realised it's an image!! What an idiot :P