An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
It feels to me like social media has been imploding recently.  It seems like I am seeing more and more efforts to overtly force people use an app, associate browsing with an account, and link their account with a real world identity (e.g. via phone number).  This in turn makes the platforms less useful and more hostile to users and presumably at some point that will cause users to leave the system.<p>It also feels like social media platforms are starting to die faster than they can be replaced.  In the past MySpace died but people could move to Facebook, Facebook shifted to emphasizing the feed over groups but people could move to Reddit, but I'm not sure what people could move to if Reddit becomes non-viable.<p>Is this just me?