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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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[–] TheDailyChase@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If that gets verified as true it will be exciting to see how many people don't want to put their personal content on the platform.

Does anyone still go to those other websites that watermark their content like ifunny.com or some place dumb like that?

[–] Anomander@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There were years there when any watermark from another site would get OP lynched in the comments, and now Admin over there is sufficiently out of touch they're going to start doing it to their own content.

Bets are on that this is a stupid kneejerk test from Reddit, worried that post-migration community hubs are going to "profit from their content" the same way Reddit did to places like ifunny or 9gag during it's entire growth arc.

[–] irinotecan@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They're also trialing blocking access on mobile if you use a web browser. I swear, they are really trying to run off the old user base.

It can't be long before they trial actively blocking ad blockers, and then ditching old.reddit.

[–] gh0stcassette@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People always talk about sites blocking ad-blockers, and I'm sure sites are trying to, but I've genuinely never been to a website where ublock origin failed to work. Like, even if there's a big banner over the screen you can't dismiss, just open the ublock zapper tool and block the banner

[–] danielton@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

u/spez insists that old.reddit isn't going away, but he's already proven himself to be untrustworthy.

[–] djtwatter@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

THIS! old.reddit is the shit with RES I don't need that other bullshit. RIP Apollo.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Upvoted for

If that gets verified as true

[–] GuyDudeman@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago

Ahh, so they're the new 9gag?

[–] Saturdaycat@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just downloaded (the deleted and left a 1 star review) the official app and downloaded an old image and a new image and a watermark didn't appear. Neither on the website

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They might be trying it on a select subset of users to see how it goes.

[–] Saturdaycat@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Definitely could believe that, just wanted to report my own findings too

[–] gh0stcassette@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, they've been rolling out the worst anti-features to small sets of trial users, that's what's happening with the users blocked from accessing the website on mobile

[–] demvoter@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Congratulations, Huffman, for finding another way to keep content creators off your site.

[–] Devi@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

It shows that they're worried.

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