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Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

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485 points dredmorbius | 5 comments | 22 Jun 23 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.862s | source
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bhouston ◴[22 Jun 23 17:23 UTC] No.36435600[source]▶
https://lemmy.ml OR https://lemmy.world and https://kbin.social and are quite nice. Been posting there myself and it is great.

Lemmy is having some stability issues across its instances because of this growth curve: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/693866c7-8f65-4046-8781-58aee70...

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EMCymatics ◴[22 Jun 23 17:40 UTC] No.36435863[source]▶
I would sign up for lemmy but it requires an email
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InCityDreams ◴[22 Jun 23 17:48 UTC] No.36435985[source]▶
Did you manage to sign up for reddit without one?
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omgmajk ◴[22 Jun 23 17:58 UTC] No.36436151[source]▶
Yes, this used to be a feature of Reddit, not sure if it still is.
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1. junon ◴[22 Jun 23 18:37 UTC] No.36436750[source]▶
It used to be a feature of the entire internet, really. Email based signups weren't common in the infancy.
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2. omgmajk ◴[22 Jun 23 20:24 UTC] No.36438378[source]▶
Yeah, I remember. I was born in the eighties. In my opinion this should still be a feature of the internet, remembering your username and password should be enough for a lot of things. Protection against bots can be achieved in any number of ways and there already exists ways to use temporary emails so I don't really get why most places still require you to use an email.

Edit: I mean, I do get it, I just don't like it.

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3. johnnyanmac ◴[23 Jun 23 00:55 UTC] No.36441338[source]▶
spam/bots grew out of control. You need to do something to curtail that, and email verification seems to be the most seemless solution.

That said, I've had a burner email for as long as my personal email for this very reason. I even have 2 burner gmails. It's not exactly a huge invasive measure like a phone number (which I'd never give to a site that isn't trying to take payments. Hell, still haven't given Amazon my phone number).

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4. junon ◴[23 Jun 23 12:14 UTC] No.36445785[source]▶
I feel you. Things were nice and easy back then, before the greater population came and made everything terrible and spammed the daylights out of everything.
5. junon ◴[23 Jun 23 12:27 UTC] No.36445921[source]▶
I agree with you, just was an observation about how things changed.