1 yr. ago • 50%

I can browse reddit on mobile again without logging in. does this show spez is cracking?

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Even if they did reverse the whole API decision, I wouldn’t go back now that we have Lemmy. It’s simply superior to what Reddit was.

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- With the way Spez handled himself in public reddit no longer seems like this welcoming website that wants to foster fun communities for people to interact in. It's just a full on corporate data harvesting site with an ethos similar to Facebook, and that just doesn't make me feel comfortable contributing even a letter of content to it. The vibe is just off now even if the same people I interacted with is still there with my changed perception of the overseer. Feels more like a prison now that many can't escape.
  
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  Do you think they’re just not aware of alternate options like Lemmy?
  
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- Agreed. It’s just that my first thought was “they changed their minds - they want the Google traffic”
  
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  Oh yeah I’m sure they’re freaking out about all this and trying to get into damage control mode.
  
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You could always browse reddit without logging in?

It's Twitter that disabled viewing posts for non logged in users.

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- Permanently Deleted
  
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  They were running an experiment of some kind on a subset of users. You were one of the unlucky ones.
  
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Honest question: Was it ever not that way? I've never seen or heard of being unable to view reddit unless logged in. (NSFW content is different in this regard of course).

I know Twitter recently made this change but was/is Reddit too?

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- Mentioned in another comment, but they were running an experiment on a subset of users. They may still be doing it and cycling users or may have stopped it.
  
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  Could they have been doing it by ip address?
  
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- It wouldn’t let me browse after they shut off the api. I had to go to old.Reddit.com to see a post on mobile browser while not logged in. This is no longer the case
  
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