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Agree.

Most of it sure, but there are still some active subreddits with human involvement I wish would switch to Lemmy.

Maybe, seems some subreddits still work here. Not sure if testing. The article was about potential upcoming changes which I guess are nearly upon us.

old.reddit.com has worked fine here for the past couple of weeks.

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Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com

As of a few minutes ago old.reddit.com now seems to requre logging in to access it.

Shame as it was still the best place to browse for info about some niche interests.

Edit: Seems like they might be testing the change as it is hit or miss at the moment.

Edit: Adding this to My flilters in uBlock Origin seems to fix the issue for the time being:

||reddit.com^$header=referer:

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/reddit-signals-ominous-upcoming-changes-for-old-reddit-com/