• NerfHerder@lemm.ee
    524·
    11 months ago

    That site died with Aaron Swartz. What remains is a sad, disheveled, dead husk of what was.

    • Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      234·
      11 months ago

      Tbh it could have “died” if Aaron Schwartz was still around. Wasnt he a “free speach absolutist”? So the site could swarm even more with fascists if he was still here.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    262·
    11 months ago

    UserAgents while odd do give the webserver some knowledge of the client capabilities. Try setting your UserAgent to ie6 and see how much of the internet breaks.

    • andrew@radiation.party
      8·
      11 months ago

      Most sites will do live inspection of browser capabilities rather than using the user agent to grok capabilities, simply because user agent is hardly reliable.

    • key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      The user agent language is because reddit requires bots to have a custom user agent identifying the bot when using the API. I don’t think it’s about browser capabilities. This is the screen they give to unknown bots, they must have adjusted rules to count any IPs registered to a cloud/hoster or VPN as a bot by default out of paranoia of third party apps and scrapers.

  • Liome@pawb.social
    23·
    11 months ago

    Only new reddit weirdly enough. If you have redirect script to old.reddit it works fine.

    • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
      39·
      11 months ago

      Old Reddit is just abandoned at this point. They probably don’t have a single developer maintaining it.
      It’ll stay exactly the way it is until Reddit switches of the subdomain.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        25·
        11 months ago

        It’ll stay exactly the way it is until Reddit switches of the subdomain realizes that is how all its users are avoiding the garbage in the new interface.

        RIP .compact

        It made it so easy to leave Reddit.

  • don@lemm.ee
    211·
    11 months ago

    There’s a cesspit I don’t miss in the slightest.

    • HolyDiver@aussie.zone
      271·
      11 months ago

      i miss the content on there, and decades worth of answered questions, as well as how polished it was compared to lemmy

      but I don’t see myself going back there either

      • don@lemm.ee
        15·
        11 months ago

        I can understand your viewpoint, I did have 12 years there.

        I remember very well when Pao was CEO, and the bigass infographic of the exodus from Digg. The fall of FPH and jailbait. Unidan. I even created a Voat account, and promptly regretted it.

        I’m sometimes shocked by how immediately and thoroughly I turned my back on the history of Reddit, but I’m as temporarily at home in lemmy as I was in Reddit.

        Lemmy, as all things, will fall. Entropy always wins.

        • HolyDiver@aussie.zone
          9·
          11 months ago

          i was only there for around 5 years but I was overall quite happy with the community there (granted I spent my time in small hobbyists subreddits), and Lemmy seems to be quite a good community too but a lot smaller and so there’s less information to be shared

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    13·
    11 months ago

    Reddit now blocks VPN connections unless signed in.

    Now my brain hurts less. Annnnd oh well, on with my day.