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this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
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We're expecting a giant influx of users when the popular workaround, old.reddit.com (perhaps with RES to make it less outdated), inevitably gets shut down. Please try to make Lemmy a worthwile space in the meantime so that they stay!
Reddit is already rate-limiting old.reddit.com traffic. There are already few threads about it.
Hadn't heard that, could you drop a link?
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1em8ywa/reddit_is_trying_to_kill_oldredditcom/
Thanks! Maybe they are doing this because old.reddit is more convenient to scrape, and stopping unauthorized data collection seems to be a priority for them? Since it isn't actively worked on you wouldn't need to constantly update a scraping program every time there's a change to the site that breaks it.