Reddit Alternatives/How to Browse Reddit without Getting MATI

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This is just the opposite end of the same fag spectrum. It's either "I have a gun to my head" Reddiquette or your thing. Neither are sincere.
I was kidding about that part, but not about the reddit faggotry. I feel my AIDS levels increasing every time I read some redditor showing off how nice of a person they are in front of strangers. But hey buddy, thanks for the reply, eat shit and I hope you have an awful day!
 
I like 3d printing so I have tried using the subreddits for troubleshooting, but it was still unbearable. Fat nerdy elitist niggers will yell at you because your printer is "too cheap and there's no point in trying to fix your issue, just buy a 2000 dollar one and you won't have any problems"

Even when it's nothing political they still love to sit on their high horse since it's probably the only chance of a powertrip they have in their lives.
 
I like 3d printing so I have tried using the subreddits for troubleshooting, but it was still unbearable. Fat nerdy elitist niggers will yell at you because your printer is "too cheap and there's no point in trying to fix your issue, just buy a 2000 dollar one and you won't have any problems"

Even when it's nothing political they still love to sit on their high horse since it's probably the only chance of a powertrip they have in their lives.

The problem is the average Redditor doesn't actually know anything so they make up for their low intelligence by talking bullshit and not actually approaching the subject that was asked at hand ignoring it entirely. Far easier to pretend to know than to actually know is the way they all run.
 
I like 3d printing so I have tried using the subreddits for troubleshooting, but it was still unbearable. Fat nerdy elitist niggers will yell at you because your printer is "too cheap and there's no point in trying to fix your issue, just buy a 2000 dollar one and you won't have any problems"

Even when it's nothing political they still love to sit on their high horse since it's probably the only chance of a powertrip they have in their lives.
Actual experts don’t act like that
 
Reddit has started forcing users to login if they are using https://old.reddit.com in order to prevent "abusive scraping and automated traffic". Presumably they're putting up an electric fence around their AI training farm because old.reddit.com is easier to scrape for some reason, or maybe they just want to herd more old users into their shitty js slop frontend.


Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.

The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”

The Reddit employee wrote:

Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in.
In a follow-up comment, boat-botany defined abusive behavior as that which violates Reddit’s rule prohibiting activity that interferes with the platform’s “normal use” or that “create programs or applications” that break Reddit’s (controversial) API rules.

“By logging in, we get a lot more signal that allows us to detect whether an account is breaking the rules, and then we can block that traffic or enforce those accounts,” boat-botany said.

As of this writing, Ars was still able to use old.reddit.com without logging in.

The news is likely to upset some longtime Reddit users who have relied on old.reddit.com for a familiar look that they find easier to navigate and digest and who also want to view Reddit without logging in for convenience and/or privacy.

When a user asked boat-botany why New Reddit isn’t scraped as often as Old Reddit, the Reddit employee pointed to a comment by another user.

“[T]he shape of malicious traffic is always changing,” the user, Nestramutat, wrote. “It’s going to be a constant cat and mouse game[.] As you ban one method, a new one gets developed. It’s easy to see abusive traffic in hindsight, but it’s harder to pre-emptively block it. Given that they’re claiming Old Reddit doesn’t have the modern security stack, this is likely proving to be an even greater challenge.”

Nestramutat also said that the login requirement won’t eliminate malicious traffic but will add a barrier against threat actors.

“You’re also now attaching an account ID to every malicious request, plus account creation is only available on New Reddit (with the enhanced security stack),” they added.

The Old Reddit login requirement follows recent Reddit testing that blocked logged-out visits to Reddit’s mobile website to push people to its mobile app. Making Old Reddit users log in could impact Reddit scraping but also will address Reddit’s interest in connecting as much traffic as possible to specific users—a strategy that is common among companies like Reddit that rely on advertising for revenue.


Old.reddit.com might not exist “forever”​

Perhaps more alarming for old-school Redditors is that boat-botany’s post left the door open for Reddit retiring old.reddit.com. In a follow-up comment, boat-botany wrote that Old Reddit is not shutting down “right now,” adding:

We can’t promise it will be around forever, but [Reddit CEO Steve Huffman] himself has said we’ll keep supporting it while folks are still using it. That said, it doesn’t have the same modern security tech stack reddit.com has, so we need to tighten security on old reddit to keep it viable.
In May 2025, Huffman addressed the longevity of Old Reddit in a post: “We’ll figure out how to work around it and keep it online as long as people are using it.”

The new login requirement will likely decrease use of old.reddit.com, though we don’t know how much. While many old.reddit.com users may visit the site while logged in, the forcefulness of the login requirement could deter longtime users.

“All part of the force-feeding of non-self-curated content to users. It’s really sad to see. [If] Old Reddit is phased out, I will no longer be able to make viewing my [subscribed-to subreddits] the default option for … using Reddit. It’s quite sad,” Reddit user ClarkFable posted in response to today’s announcement.

Advance Publications, which owns Ars Technica parent Condé Nast, is the largest shareholder in Reddit.
 
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Reddit has started forcing users to login if they are using https://old.reddit.com in order to prevent "abusive scraping and automated traffic". Presumably they're putting up an electric fence around their AI training farm because old.reddit.com is easier to scrape for some reason, or maybe they just want to herd more old users into their shitty js slop frontend.
Absolute dogshit decision, using old. is the only way to make it halfway readable.
 
Reddit has started forcing users to login if they are using https://old.reddit.com in order to prevent "abusive scraping and automated traffic". Presumably they're putting up an electric fence around their AI training farm because old.reddit.com is easier to scrape for some reason, or maybe they just want to herd more old users into their shitty js slop frontend.
The reddit post they're referencing (archive)
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Pinned admin comment is coy about not shutting it down... yet. Fuck having a usable UI on a computer, it's just scroll slop for mobile users now.
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Reddit has been dead to me for awhile now, but what a waste of the only popular link aggregator. There's no fucking driver at the wheel at this point, they just want to be another instagram or tiktok or twitter which they fail at. The enshitification will continue until no one is left to complain.
 
I fucking hate reddit. The admins are stupid niggers. The mods are even stupider niggers. The bots? Stupid niggers. I hate karma. I hate the front page. I hate rules. I hate fake AITA posts. I hate toxic positivity. I hate comment chains. I hate getting filtered automatically. I hate stealth marketing. I hate astroturfing. I hate when the top rated answer on a question is [Removed by moderators]. Why do I have to study a whole god damn terms and conditions to make a post? They invented a robot that can get you banned from most of the website for nothing. I need to advocate harder for trans rights and start a campaign of how much better life is when you cut your dick off, just so the worlds reddit moderator lifespan gets a little bit lower. The only way to enjoy a comment section properly is to sort by controversial, then just maybe, if you're lucky, youll get to see the opinion of someone thats not completely fucking retarded.
I HATE REDDIT
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Reddit has started forcing users to login if they are using https://old.reddit.com in order to prevent "abusive scraping and automated traffic". Presumably they're putting up an electric fence around their AI training farm because old.reddit.com is easier to scrape for some reason, or maybe they just want to herd more old users into their shitty js slop frontend.
This killed many old 3rd party reddit app's ability to browse without an account.
 
They can't help themselves. The admins are Digging themselves into a hole. Their website gets worse and worse every year. Its honestly unusable at this point. Even if you try to post something genuinely constructive in a niche sub there is a decent chance your post will get automatically scrubbed.

Reddit might be the most poorly designed website on the entire Internet. The karma system actively defeats productive discourse. The way moderation is handled is just a cesspit for corruption; it frequently leads to people moderating communities they have no business in.

Reddit was a shitty little internet experiment from 2005 that happened to catch lightning in a bottle when Digg pissed off its entire userbase. It was not designed to grow to the level it did.
 
That's annoying, as Old Reddit was also the only way to view NSFW-marked content without logins. New reddit required you to login, old just required you to press YES to the interstitial.
 
Just so you guys know, the following alternate reddit frontends still work on browsers (based on my end of the net, YMMV), complete with NSFW bypasses:
  • RedLib (successor to Libreddit after the API fuckery)
  • Eddrit (Nitter-themed frontend, I'm using this one at the moment)
  • Kddit (very spartan fronend)
  • Troddit (requires logins to avoid getting rate-limited)
 
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Absolute dogshit decision, using old. is the only way to make it halfway readable.
This is something I'm still surprised by and the only redeeming quality plebbit had when they decided to switch to the new layout. Typically any big social media site would've just forced users into using their newest frontend redesign and you'd have 0 say on if you want it or not, so seeing Reddit kept .old for users that hated their layout was a pleasant surprise even after nearly a decade of the redesign.
Of course given the news they're gonna start forcing logins for users, it's probably the end times coming for those who like the classic layout of the site, sad.
 
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