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potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 5 days agotwitter is fucked and requires a login for everything, but reddit seems to work fine without a login.
twitter is fucked and requires a login for everything,
They will show you a login screen at the home page. However. You can view specific tweets without an account. You can also view some content from a user.
You’re crippled important ways in that as far as I know, you can’t sort by reverse date order (to see a user’s recent tweets, which is kind of important), and AFAIK you can’t search, but you’re not completely blocked out.
Here’s Michael Kofman’s tweets:
And here’s a specific tweet of his:
Twitter’s even worse than that. Sometimes they require login to view a tweet. Sometimes you can see every post on an account. Sometimes there are certain posts missing in a timeline but you can’t know without logging in.
Ridiculously annoying.
Anything that’s marked NSFW requires a login on Reddit.
You can bypass that by just replacing “www.reddit.com” with “old.reddit.com”, which shows exactly the same content using the old Reddit UI, and has no more restriction than just clicking an “I am over 18” button.
I can’t fathom how people have been using the redesign in the first place. Old.reddit was the only way.
I never moved to the new UI. I assume that users using the new UI is a combination of:
Many, probably most of the existing userbase came in after the redesign – Reddit kept growing. Probably not even aware of it.
A lot of users – especially today, though not back when the site was created – are browsing the site using a smartphone, and the old UI, while usable, is not designed around a small smartphone screen. (That’s a two-edged sword; to some extent, I think that the new UI is poorly suited to a personal computer.) That being said, Reddit, like many Web-based services, pushes hard to get mobile users on the official app – more access to a user’s computer and data-harvesting potential, I suppose – and I’d guess that a lot of smartphone users use the official app these days, rather than the mobile Web UI. I think that Reddit mostly sees the mobile Web UI as a way to help lower the bar to feed new users in, but that’s not where they want mobile users long-term.
Reddit added inline images to the new UI, but not the old.
There is a small amount of incompatibility…I’d have to go back and look it up, but IIRC backslash-URL-escaping for URLs just pasted into the text rather than using Markdown the []() link syntax has slightly different edge cases, so you can get a link that works in the old UI but not the new and vice versa.
I haven’t played with the new UI enough to know what didn’t make it over, but I don’t know if the subreddit wikis – each subreddit came bundled with a wiki – ever made it over. They weren’t accessible from the new UI when it came out.
pretty sure thats just on mobile, could be wrong tho
The mobile website doesn’t let you view NSFW without using the Reddit app. You can bypass that by flipping your web browser to request desktop mode and viewing old.reddit.com too.
natecox@programming.dev 5 days ago
Unless you’re on a vpn, in which case the whole site is restricted unless you sign in.