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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Welcome to the new era of enshittification where you'll eventually have to subscribe to access or make posts, and none of it will be searchable on any search engines.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At least Reddit is searchable, while Discord is not. Not trying to defend Reddit though.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (3 children)

At least Reddit is searchable

How long until they restrict viewing the full contents of posts without logging in?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

They already did for mobile browsers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They recently had a deal with Google, so not soon I guess

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think Facebook won't let me look at their videos without logging in

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For Videos I can get it, since that costs much storage and bandwidth for the host 🎞️. But for raw text/html? No.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

And the shoe will probably drop at some point. Something like "communities must have nitro to access posts from more than 6 months ago".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Commenting/making posts has always required an account of some sort, at least as far back as I can remember. Maybe the IRC days you just needed a name

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

With guestbooks - not always. They were full of spam, of course

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

New?

Anyway, I think all this is a result of thieves in governments becoming conscious of how the Web works and breaking it with the means they have - helping corps and making litigation more and more likely for anything small and well-behaving, because of failing to remove something etc.

It just makes sense. In 2005 with all the problems with search engines of that time, and with having to use web directories and ask people, you had a lot of information at the tips of your fingers. You could read a lot of things about people who would prefer to do their stuff more confidentially, like mafia bosses and bureaucrats and politicians.