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points by grimgrin 1 day ago | 0 comments

no one can view old.reddit.com w/o being authorized. idk if you're aware, but it lost a lot of appeal as such. what i'm saying is, folks can view reddit.com w/o logging in, but not old.reddit.com

[–] RunSet 1 day ago

Lemmy is shaping up to be the reddit replacement.

And it is federated so when the biggest Lemmy instance starts to suck, Lemmy can be the Lemmy replacement, too.

I understand that mentioning it on popular subreddits is verboten.

https://lemmy.world/

[–] Vaushite 17 hours ago

The biggest Lemmy instance already sucks. Try lemmy.dbzer0.com instead.

[–] ranger_danger 13 hours ago

My experience with Lemmy is that it is much worse than reddit in terms of the number of people with cosmically inflated god-complex egos posting baseless accusations and wild misinformation as dogma with impunity. Then the mods punish anyone who calls them out on it... they seem to operate on extremely arbitrary and misguided rules: https://a.imagem.app/G3R9xb.png

Many servers defederate from each other regularly, making it very much a "which wind would you like to piss into" situation where you have no idea who (if anyone) is even seeing your messages.

[–] consumer451 1 day ago

Thanks for the reminder. Theoretically, I know this, but it’s a really hard habit for me to drop.

[–] Akronymus 1 day ago

you used to be able to set the redesign_optout cookie to true, but that doesnt seem to work anymore as of like a day ago for me

[–] qingcharles 1 day ago

They just demoed an entirely new version of Old Reddit at ModWorld. Same front-end but runs on the New Reddit backend.

[–] kuschku 1 day ago

Is that the version that looks like old reddit, but also only loads just as few comments as new reddit, and just as few nesting layers?

[–] qingcharles 10 hours ago

I believe the new, new version of old Reddit that was demo'd last week is not live just yet.

[–] reddalo 1 day ago

The fact that only some comments are loaded it's so infuriating. It's the main reason I stopped using Reddit altogether.

[–] mschuster91 1 day ago

> Same front-end but runs on the New Reddit backend.

That's the entire reason I use old.reddit - the New Reddit backend is a pile of unreliable dung. Just like everything that is made with GraphQL.