Discussion: Reddit has decided to force everyone to log in · Issue #609 · redlib-org/redlib
github.comGithub redlib thread still unfolding. From reddit shareholder letter,
And a key piece of work to retain new audiences is shifting Reddit to a logged-in-only experience.
Most on lemmy know the privacy and bot-infested dumpster fire reddit is. So it’s very easy to think good riddance. But that misses an important point. IMO.
Inspite of the dumpster fire, it also contains a huge body of knowledge not found anywhere else. Example. Many times I have searched for a super obscure error message and the only good hits were a reddit thread in a tech sub. This is formerly open knowledge, accessible privately, now being closed and locked behind logins.
In old web forum days, weird niche info was distributed all over. That made it robust. Big tech social media displaced most of that world. It all got centralized. No matter hjow awful their algorithms are, no matter how toxic, those sites do have riches of knowledge.
We ARE losing something, if open access to niche info created by normal ppl is cut off.
“Ppl will figure a way around” you may say. There is no way to win that fight in the long run.
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Why do people read my rhetorics as anything but calm? I can rephrase it indeed for people unaware of early internet rules, when copyright was less instigated authoritatively.
Before the worldwide web, we had these distributed services called news servers. ISPs would copy messages across the globe, and people would copy books, warez, music, even early images! But soon after, predators started abuse the system, and in hopes to deter them, ISPs dropped USENET support. FineCoatMummy is referring to those pre web days, when BBS was king, dialup was a phreak away.
I am questioning es resolve. What is seizing em from continuing the torch recreating es favorite /r/s?
Backups are essential internaut practice. Does e keep them, or do I have to do all the work?
No I wasn’t.
then what even is this: