It’s why I moved to Lemmy - that and completely borking the site while using most VPNs. F-that. If you can’t allow my VPN, I know you’re wrong, not me.

Im going to either get ignored, or downvoted to hell but…
Bot control.

Their site is the only source the website can be read/scraped and with the influx of ai scrapers ignoring all bot rules they might want to try and kill that.

I havent seen the pop up yet, nor checked out the html dom, but i suspect they, like any website, are getting a huge influx of ai bots doing terrabytes and terrabytes of data transfers

It was the next logical step - old.reddit still allowed unauthorized clients to work. Now the garden is fully walled, and soon it shall be paved over.

At least they help me to beat my Reddit addiction, thanks Reddit

They literally cut away their own ad revenue from me using their website, but hey - I can live with that. I’m definitely not creating an account over there, so Lemmy it is!

So they get another page view every time you have to refresh to see the content behind the pop-up.

If they wanted to force logins they’d grey out the text like newspaper websites do.

Because business types eventually ruin everything.

Quit using corporate social media.

Social media companies and self-destruction, name a more classic combination

The corporatocracy does not believe in the values of a open and free Internet. They have show us their hand over and over again. Why people keep playing when they know they will lose to the house is beyond me.

Simple, reddit just want lemmy to succeed, so they gave us another shot!

ENSHITIFICATION

I browse reddit without logging in and with an adblocker. From their perspective, I’m a parasite using resources but contributing nothing; I’m proud of that.

Who cares, fuck reddit, fuck Fart Huffmsn