Who cares. Reddit is dead to me, and spez murdered it.
Reddit was amazing. I will always enjoy and fondly remember what it was like before Spez fucked up one of the most reputable cultures and brands in internet history. Fuck that guy... just... what a fucking shithead to destroy something so wonderful.
I've been meaning to say this, there has been surge of influx of users recently. Maybe this has to do with it? My VPN IP has been targeted. This isn't a problem if you switch to a different location as certain VPN IP addresses are flagged by websites. VPN providers tend to change the addresses so this shouldn't be a long term problem.
Since the debacle of Reddit and curtailing of privacy in their site, I log in to Reddit via Tor on Onion. It's awkward to do so, but I won't go back to the original site. They have gone in the way of Facebook with predatory harvesting of data.
I think there is something there to start a conversation about how messed up the Internet is these days.
Walls are being placed up all over. Security teams are always freaking out and checks that charge the guest are being put up just to track people going in and out.
I think we have finally hit the breaking threshold of everyone getting online and gated communities are the only way people want to exist in the web now. I mean how many times has Lemmy been DDOS'd already on several instances. Scrapers are everywhere trying to steal data for any and all purposes.
As much as we may not like it for people that want a pleasant experience without effort entrance tickets might actually need to start being made to let people into the world's largest circus we ever made.
Seems like Spez & Co finally started figuring out just how much their traffic skews to porn seekers, and is useless to advertisers. Last ditch effort to get relevant user info and metrics to sell.
old.reddit.com still works (for now..).
I have noticed this too when using a VPN, some of Mullvads servers are blocked.
I know everyone here hates reddit but come on we all go to reddit when we need to find some information because its almost always guaranteed to be there whereas on Lemmy unless it is something tech related or foss related, its pretty much a shot in the dark.
Fuck em
As a first-time user I'm enjoying Lemmy. I feel like I want to contribute mostly because I won't have an immediately antithetical comment to follow my own. Am not looking for an echo chamber, I'm looking for conversation and sharing ideas. Reddit has devolved and this seems like the best way forward, for now.
Use an alternate front-end. There's a couple of them out there but usually the less popular domains are less laggy. I'm currently using https://teddit.hostux.net/r/popular
try: !reddit@lemmy.world
The less nefarious explination for what might be happening there is that Reddit has blocked that VPN ip because it's been used for bots and logging in with a known good account bypasses that block.
Permanently Deleted
I just keep opening new accounts until they ban them, rinse and repeat
it's a bug or someone else used the same vpn (the same ip) to spam.
Just replace "www" with "old". I just use a Firefox addon that does that automatically after seeing that nonsense the other day.
Didn't they have a similar glitch not too long ago?
I circumvent it with Tor Browser (Alpha) on my android mobile.
Brave gives a randomized fingerprint when you set the fingerprint blocking to strict. Set the adblocking to strict too, and use adguard for desktop to spoof your user agent to the most common chrome on windows user agent you can find.
I just made a new blank sandbox to visit reddit and they didn't block me
Works for me
