Earlier today Reddit announced that it’s rolling out social media-style ‘For You’ feeds, but that wasn’t the only big news today. Reddit also now says that it’s going to start requiring a logged-in account for accessing most of its content.

Reddit transitioning to being primarily a service for logged-in users

Sara Fischer writes at Axios :

Reddit on Thursday said it’s moving to become a primarily logged-in experience, marking one of the most significant shifts in its 21-year history.

Reddit has long championed the open web. Now, it’s pushing to build a more direct relationship with users while also protecting its data from increased scraping in the AI era.

Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman said in an interview that the change is being made to “improve its user experience, bolster its ads business and prevent bots from scraping its proprietary data.”

The plan is to start testing the new logged-in experience this quarter, but only outside the US to start.…