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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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That's why i deleted Reddit account twice and I moved to Lemmy, I don't want forcing you to use shitty Reddit app to view Unreviewed content subreddits (lemmy.world)
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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Reddit is already rate-limiting old.reddit.com traffic. There are already few threads about it.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hadn't heard that, could you drop a link?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

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.