Moving to primarily logged-in will ensure our users have the best Reddit experience possible, and can find the content and communities most relevant to them. It is better for our business because we will have more signals for ads targeting, and being logged-in leads to higher engagement generally. It also allows us to protect access to Reddit’s extremely valuable corpus of data, and helps us better adapt to emerging regulations around the world.

Reddit is the textbook example of enshittification. When future historians research this era of the internet, there’ll be a picture of Cory Doctorow’s book, and a screenshot of the front page of Reddit. Hashtag fuck u/spez.