You cannot access reddit without either an account, or turning off your VPN. Effectively meaning that it’s difficult to access reddit privately, as they can either track you with IP or with account.

Even alternative frontends like RDX for reddit by @[email protected] don’t solve this issue.

I can’t believe more people haven’t left because of that.

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    8 days ago

    They want to pump up the number of new accounts and/or monthly active accounts by any means necessary now that the stock price depends on it.

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      8 days ago

      you know the drill folks: deny the parasite engagement, seed fedi with discussion.

      corpo parasite took the shit poster for granted for too long.

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        I gotta admit I just discovered Reddit few weeks ago that I spend a bit more time there. Before it was only from Google results when needed.

        I don’t know how it was before, but it feels pretty decent now. I don’t have a comparison.

        Will be hard to leave Reddit now haha 🙄

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          Think about this:

          Literally all the value of Reddit comes from the users, and most of the moderation comes from volunteers.

          That is, everything that made Reddit useful was provided for free.

          Now those jackanapes think they’re entitled to create money based on the free labor of millions of people. And what makes that more infuriating is they had the gall to call those volunteers “landed gentry”.

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          it was way better before, especially they dint force the New UI, you can still use the OLD.reddit feature, which makes it easier to navigate the site. the infinite scroll feature that most social media has now, is not good at all, its also gets very buggy and laggy(if your using it on mobile browser). Also there have been significant ban/purges in the last few months and many accounts were banned. alot of innocent users have been caught in the crossfire, additionally, in my opinion its pretty hostile to new users too, because subreddits have UPPed thier anti-ban evasion ,spam filter, even to the point it harms new users.

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          8 days ago

          remember this comment when you figure out why reddit is fucked haha

          prolly under 3 months if you are going to engage on there.

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      7 days ago

      gotta look good for their quartely call, and potentially be sold off eventually. hence the indiscriminate and discriminate banning of accounts.