Seriously? You’re talking about this chick again? Get over her, move on.
Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections.
Submitted 11 months ago by 13617@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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nobleshift@lemmy.world 11 months ago
isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is very apt.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“woah there, pardner”
autokludge@programming.dev 11 months ago
mechoman444@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lemmy is getting better and better at an exponential rate. I still use Reddit but eventually I expect to fully be on Lemmy.
dm_me_your_feet@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just quit cold turkey and moved to lemmy fulltime. I miss some communities but whatev, its no biggie.
Serinus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s too many answers over the past decade to abandon reddit completely. Most google searches for specific questions go back to Reddit.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Same. I realised 95% of Reddit for me was just the bants and chitchat. There’s a few communities I miss, but I can easily get my kicks here.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Same here. I do go back for sore niche browsing, but mostly over here now.
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I used to use Reddit a lot more back before the whole API fiasco earlier this year. After that, I stopped, save for posts promoting Lemmy (like this one) and one very specific subreddit that never migrated to Lemmy and that I just couldn’t go without. (The other subreddits I could either do without or were already replicated on Lemmy.)
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
If I may ask, what subreddit is that, and how big it is?
JairJacom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I also used to rely more on reddit but just came to lemmy and can really see potential that with time will overpass reddit eventually
cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 11 months ago
I think we can overpass in quality some day but not in rough numbers(at least for now, reddit has to fuck up a lot to go down like twitter).
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I honestly haven’t used Reddit since the API exodus. The only reason I still have an account there is for when I have weird tech issues and the only search results are from old Reddit posts.
I only check Lemmy a few times a day, (and I tend to browse /all so I’m not limited to only seeing my subscriptions,) so I always have fresh content whenever I open the app. My posts and comments tend to get better engagement on Lemmy anyways. They don’t get buried by power users and karma-farming bots, so I actually get real responses. Nearly every time I open my app, I have three or four comment responses to check.
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 11 months ago
I miss like one community and sort by controversial to enjoy a really nice shit show.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Some of my main communities didn’t take hold here, so I keep my toes in those subreddits. In the past week, the experience has gotten measurably worse. It’s wild.
I wish those communities had reached a critical mass here.
Someday.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I browse old.reddit when I finish a show or movie for review and to touch in on hiphop releases. But without interaction. Lemmy is where I am now, fuck reddit I’m not a complete fuck Spez but they’re a genuinely unlikeable company.
ShortFuse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Translation: If we can’t track you, you’re of no interest to us.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Basically. They need to know who you are.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Correction: They need to know how they can market you to advertisers.
dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 11 months ago
Weekly reminder that the best way to tell them off is to donate to the Lemmy developers, even 1 dollar is no doubt appreciated. Tell reddit off by using their competitor and paying for it.
itsmect@monero.town 11 months ago
Reminder is much appreciated. I checked out their donation page and learned that they also accept XMR, which is great if you don’t want to give the middleman leeches (paypal etc.) any data or money: join-lemmy.org/crypto
Coasting0942@reddthat.com 11 months ago
The server you use would also like some love.
dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 11 months ago
In my case I’m my own server runner but hey I wouldn’t mind a donation 😂
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
What’s Reddit?
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
On a second thought, let’s not go to Reddit, tis a silly place.
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]scottywh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What does Lemmy have to do with email?
SVcross@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just an isolated kinda-lemmy instance. Not worth it.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
A bit like Lemmy, but worse in every way.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lemmy but for squares; like pants are for squares
nullPointer@programming.dev 11 months ago
change your user agent yo “fuck reddit and fuck you spez v. 1.2.45”
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
v23.6.12
crsu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Reddit is the new digg
Chozo@kbin.social 11 months ago
I get this even when signed in. Reddit really doesn't like VPNs at all these days.
lightnegative@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If I was going to r/FortNiteBR, I’d be using private browsing mode on mobile firefox too
centof@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Change the url to old. instead of www. and you can bypass it.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 months ago
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.
Marsey_Enjoyer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
just_another_person@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
crackajack@reddthat.com 11 months ago
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.
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.
kandoh@reddthat.com 11 months ago
The only time I use reddit instead of Lemmy now is when I want to read discussion of TV shows I just watched.
MagneticFusion@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
eruchitanda@lemmy.world 11 months ago
old.reddit.com still works (for now…).
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wtf are they doing?
trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Fuck em
simple@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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 teddit.hostux.net/r/popular
radiosimian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 11 months ago
try: !reddit@lemmy.world
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Might wanna wipe that IP next time.
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Works with my VPN, I suspect this is a user agent issue rather than VPN
FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Noticed this last week. Thanks to split tunneling, it’s easy avoidable.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just keep opening new accounts until they ban them, rinse and repeat
vox@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
it’s a bug
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just wanna look at memes, cats, and news and hang out in the comment section without being exposed to ads, is that too much to ask?I hope their IPO sucks and they get shorted i to oblivion while they bleed off users month over month, because thats whats going to happen if they keep pulling this sort of stuff.
_number8_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
when is the IPO (what is an ipo) happening? i want to see their stock graph fall and jerk off to it
athos77@kbin.social 11 months ago
I've been hanging out in imgur, which is generally nice for memes and cats, and kbin for news. It's been surprisingly effective.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Throw few bucks at your app developer, instance hosted, and Lemmy dev team.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 11 months ago
12 years that place was more of my life then i care to admit. constantly scrolling.
…honestly i should think im for breaking that addiction
OneShotLido@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is one of the things I like about Lemmy. I can scroll through and be done in 10-20 minutes. More if I want, but otherwise, the rest of the day is mine for the taking. It’s like I’ve escaped and reclaimed my time.
Sabata11792@kbin.social 11 months ago
Much the same, I was lost for a while till I adjusted.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s going to take years, but Lemmy will kill Reddit. People like authenticity. Reddit will lose authenticity as it antagonizes its user base through its monetization efforts.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
My bar isn’t set too high to beat Reddit.
I’d be perfectly happy if we have small but thriving communities spread throughout the fediverse on a diverse set of niche topics.
We’re in a good place for memes, star trek, and general discussion, niche content still has ways to go.
But to those people that are trying and posting to niche communities, I see you and I appreciate you!
OneShotLido@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like the way you think.
Sho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Couldn’t have said it better myself, haven’t been back once since I joined Lemmy and I never will.
OneShotLido@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I only go back when there’s an answer to a DDG search. There’s so much valuable information there, but as time goes by, that will change and the answers will become less accurate. In ten years, it’ll be a graveyard.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I’ve been back a few times for specific communities that haven’t moved over, so like once or twice a week
It’s much like when I initially went from Digg to Reddit; it was dramatic then with time it was less unless until one day I realized I hadn’t been back to Digg in forever.
InternetUser2012@midwest.social 11 months ago
Same
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The issue is, that a lot of Google searches lead to reddit
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
It’s quite annoying actually. A huge number of the results return pages that are years old and a huge chunk of the comments are just gone.
I know why I know everyone went through all their posts and edited or deleted them or both but it shouldn’t be returning in search results now.
anonymoose@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Honestly, this is part of a broader trend of enshittification sweeping the Internet these days. It’s not just spez, it’s any SV bro from the current crop of technology companies. I think this is a lesson worth remembering for all of us who took the freedom and magic of the Internet for granted.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Absolutely. Cory Doctorow’s Def Con 31 talk really nailed it. I’ve listened to it like 3 times. He is the person who coined the term “enshitification” and the talk describes what it is, how it happens, and some things we can do to prevent it. The Q&A at the end is also awesome.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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zergtoshi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was active on reddit for quite a while and by contributing and visiting the site making reddit money.
I have no desire to feed their greed and what they pulled with their API pricing was nothing but greed and shortsightedness.
I’m gone from reddit for good.
Kaliax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s all about Lemmy now. Lemmy is the future.
nutsack@lemmy.world 3 months ago
it still has a shitload of valuable content and will continue to generate lots of it
Marsey_Enjoyer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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