Going by comments in the post, the required login is coming in waves, so not all people may notice immediately.
Still, as Reddit is strong-arming its way across, maybe worth signaling to people there that the fediverse may be used without an account, so long as there’s even one instance that implements logged-out view as the protocol allows it?
I don’t have access to my account any longer, possibly VPN ban, though I never tried to recover it so I can only guess why mine is lost, else I’d post myself.
Good thing piefed.social is following in reddits footsteps! Oh wait that’s really bad
I’m out of the loop. What are they doing…?
CCP-style shadow profiling, among other things.
Trying to recreate a worse version of reddit karma and locking their instance behind a login page/requiring an account to view anything
slightly less worst than fb, fb would block people unless they login.(there is a workaround with ublock though.
Been so long since I tried using Facebook. And haven’t tried threads.
Just sad how many are following in the Twitter footsteps of everything needing a login like it’s a support page
I just opened piefed.social in a private window and it works fine
Was not like that yesterday
Good thing it’s not the only instance, and that you can also host your own instance.
datamining perhaps, i would be wary too.
If someone sees an instance requiring an account to do anything on they’ll think anything using that software will require one.
Also almost like the point isn’t about if you can host it yourself or there are other instances when the main dev is literally doing what everyone is angry reddit is doing 🤔
Oh, this is about the login wall?
lol that was just a temporary measure to fend off the scrapers. They’ve been really bad the last couple of weeks, especially.
I’m testing out a custom-built Anubis now, that should mean we can do without a login wall.
In what way?
I can’t say otherwise you would call it harassment and push for all instances to ban me/anyone else that explains it again
You know, the ways you’ve been told. Are you this dense?