We used to have that, it was called a blog. I used to subscribe to all my local politicians and journalist blogs back in the late 2000s and would recieve everything I needed in my inbox, but now everyone posts on Twitter. That's where we have ActivityPub.

And Reddit has also started blocking signed out users in my region.

They are now telling me that I need an account to use old.reddit.com (the only usable version of Reddit UI). Needless to say, I have stopped visiting Reddit completely.

Perhaps more frustratingly, if you bite the bullet and browse the "new" version on your mobile browser, the page will eventually become non-responsive and have ~60% of your screen covered by a bottom banner that prompts you to download their app to continue. It's like they are actively trying to kill their userbase.

Like most big tech companies now, they are actively trying to kill their non-contributing userbase, where contributing means viewing an ad for every second post. They know that perhaps 5% of the non-contributing userbase they kill will become contributing userbase, while the other 95% will just leave, and this trade seems good to them.

On mobile, uBO has been able to get around the "use our app" block. It took a week or two for the filters to get updated but now it is a non-issue. Tested in Firefox and Vivaldi on Android.

Unfortunately, it seems uBO on Safari/iOS needs to get with it! The native “hide distracting items” feature does allow you to select and remove it, though.

FWIW, Old Reddit Redirect manages to somehow still be usable without a user.

They do this by setting cookie "redesign_optout=true" for www.reddit.com (and then using that domain).

You're being A/B tested.

For me it requires login even with ORR.

And demanding ID!

Real life is a channel of communication.

the internet is real life

Exactly my point.

By this logic services like Telegram or Signal would be designated "terrorist organizations". But the current admin is purely vibes-based, so we'll never know for sure

Telegram is openly supportive of cyber crime. I don't think it should be labelled as terrorist organization, but it's not far from that.

If it works, it works. Also the Internet Archive also excludes many sites for ideological reasons which is the opposite of preservation

Not sure how well it’s “working” considering any of the archived pages might be altered by the site’s administrator to further their causes. There’s a reason why Wikipedia stopped trusting them.

I agree, it makes sense for large source-reliant projects like Wikipedia to stop using them. However, for the end-user, it's often the service that works best.

Please provide example of such cases?

Sounds like fair game. Jani is trying to destroy the archive.

If that is the case, he succeeded since the archive totally lost all credibility in an instant.

Maybe in the eyes of some, but the archive is still up and the operator is not dead to two shots to the back of the head.

Only to people who think archiving outside of the bounds of the law doesn't count, such as yourself.

Just Web 2.0 and it’s consequences.

Empty cynicism adds no value.

I doubt Reddit will die anytime soon, at least not within the next 5 years. They have an incredibly lucrative AI deal with Google, and their activity has skyrocketed over the last couple of years. The average person who just wants to fix their car doesn’t care about Old Reddit, the poor moderation, the spam filters, the slow website, or the removal of r/all. Most people are already used to modern web design anyway. What Reddit has is an active userbase and a huge amount of answers, and for now, that is what keeps them successful.

Can’t believe this doesn’t already exist.

China won’t invade Taiwan. Be realistic

If you wanted to be realistic, you wouldn't say for sure that they won't.

Uh oh 5 years ago nobody would believe there will be a war in Europe with almost 1,000,000 dead.

And now China knows that both US and EU are weak and cant even deal with Russia or Iran.

And they also have their own semiconductors manufacturing and cut off from what TSMC produces anyway.

And Russia would never invade Ukraine. And Germany could never make it past the Maginot Line

That was before Trump blew up half the US' munitions inventory in Iran. If Xi is serious about taking back Taiwan, and I don't see why we should doubt his sincerity, the temptation to invade must be irresistible. The only thing that is holding him back is that he purged nearly the entire top brass of the PLA for gross corruption (like "fueling" its ICBMs with water), and he has no idea if his Potemkin army is actually capable of anything.