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Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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Why aren't they just making the new version better, so that people are happy to use it?
They want the shareholders happy, not the people.
The old reddit was optimized for users, then new reddit is optimized for the shareholders to maximize profit, this is why it is shitty.
It has a technical name: enshittification
"Better" means extracting as much data and value from users as possible to appease the Capitalist machine. What users want or need is irrelevant.
Afaik they got tired of winning, and want their users to use Lemmy instead.
People are the product.