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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At some point, the mistake was using Reddit to begin with.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was the only search result relevant to my query.

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    • perishthethought@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Does anyone else remember back in the early days of the internet when experts used to say, “The internet routes around problems”.

      I miss those early days.

      To @daggermoon@lemmy.world , I see that a lot with searches now too but I just keep searching or find some other way around the problem. There’s no way I click in to Reddit any more. You do you, but I’m saying there’s always another option.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It was the only search result relevant to my query.

      Paste it into archive.org’s Wayback Machine. Good odds that they’ve stored a copy. I’d do it for you, but you don’t list the URL…

      web.archive.org

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    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s the problem isn’t it? We used to have forums where people discus things and blogs where people share what they’ve learned, now it is all Reddit and discord and absolute trash in between.

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    • 3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      idk lately ive had more help outside it on random forums, just dont add reddit to your search

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  • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is not a Reddit problem. A lot of websites throw a fucking hissy fit if you have a VPN turned on, and I’m also over it.

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    • Aux@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s a good reason for that, VPNs are extensively used by bot networks for all kinds of activity. But VPN use by bots is actually coming down slowly as bot networks start to switch to residential mobile networks - it’s impossible to block them and you can cycle connections automatically like you do with VPN when using specialised residential mobile IP providers. So maybe web sites will stop blocking VPNs in a few years.

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• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  STOP GOING TO REDDIT!!!

  I can’t believe how often I have to say this.

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  • tehn00bi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are a few communities on Reddit that aren’t represented on here. So I still go to Reddit some.

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    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There might be very niche communities but Lemmy has grown so much in the last year. I would encourage you to search for whatever community you are looking for. You might not find the exact equivalent but you might find a good match.

      For example, there may be a /r/3dprinteddildos on reddit but that won’t exist here. But I am sure that the 3D community here can point you in the right direction.

      Keep in mind how subreddit often got created: when the general community doesn’t provide enough content for your niche, the niche community is developed.

      /r/gonewild is a great example of this. It went from amateur porn to a cestpool of only fans content. Other subreddits were created to continue the way.

      It’s the same thing here: find a community that’s close and post.

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  • Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve stopped casually browsing Reddit but sometimes it’s the only way to get somewhat decent search results

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  • silverlose@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m trying to convince people to check out Lemmy but it’s hard. People are so stuck in their ways. I’ll keep trying though

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      People are still on X even after their owner gave a Nazi salute on national television.

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  • quack@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m weaning myself off it. Sadly there’s some communities that I’m active in on Reddit that either don’t exist on a federated platform or are so tiny that they’re functionally dead. Hopefully we can grow those communities though - if we want to preserve the internet and our democracies into the future, the cancer that is big tech needs viable alternatives.

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  • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The sad part is I still have a lot of random subs I enjoy, fringe stuff like r/OnionLovers and r/slowcooking, r/frugal… and subs like r/frugal immediately delete any comment that brings up politics in any way, so there are a few decent subs left with non-batshit insane mods but they are becoming extremely rare.

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  • Ironfist@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s an addiction, it’s hard to break.

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    • VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is. What helped me was deleting my account and removing my patched boost app. Now I only browse it through mobile Firefox with ublock.

      It’s annoying as shit to use, so I don’t use it often. But when I do they get nothing from me. Win-win.

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    • SpitefulSprite@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is… i have lots of shows i watch with communities im an engaged with… and thats not really here yet… but bluesky has helped me get off reddit more… i actually like the platform and lemmy

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  • PenyihirEmas@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lemmy is not grown yet,so yeah i’m forced to use reddit.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How’s the search engine supposed to know you’re blocked from Reddit?

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good point, Reddit is the real problem.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “THE MACHINE KNOWS”

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• cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I read this as “we don’t want you, the user, to interact with our 100% user-content driven website that depends on your presence to keep having value”.

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• OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It did not used to be this way. Every website result used to be "cached", but not anymore...

  Enshittification 😔

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• quack@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dogshit website anyway.

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  that’s on you for preventing the billion dollar company from tracking your every move ;)

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  • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s hilarious that you made me curious enough to look up RDDT’s stock price today, down 9% today alone lol.

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• Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The fedora tells you everything.

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

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• independantiste@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That happens on some VPNs

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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    "shouldn’t happen all the time on VPNs

    Safety and privacy for companies, but not for users.

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    • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It happens more often than not with Mullvad.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The issue with a VPN is that it’s likely that other people using the same exit node are doing something malicious. A site like reddit or a bank or whatever sees a lot of attacks coming from one IP (or a range of IPs) and mark it as malicious.

      You’d likely do the same thing with your own site - something like Denyhosts or Crowdsec that blocks people trying to brute force a password will end up blocking anyone else using that same VPN exit IP.

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  • heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It happens all the time with me, I see it as a blessing.

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• Shanmugha@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, fine with me. Closing one tab is no big deal, let the website die

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sounds like a you problem

  closes ticket

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• samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  M’lday

  Image

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  • Rin@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d love to punt that smug fedora wearing fuck

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    • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You know a site is good when its mascot makes you feel intense uncontrollable rage deep in your soul.

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• HappinessPill@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wish there was a way to filter all sites that block me like this, at least my search would actually show results I can read

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  • racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sometimes part of the content can be seen in the search result page, as the crawler got the content. But when you click inside, you’re blocked by the membership wall. Irony?

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I consider this more of a feature than a bug.

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• hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Me too. I wrote a blog post about it and would love some feedback. I’m sure it could be expanded even more to include stuff like this.

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  • Saprophyte@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nice blog you have there. I appreciate the content and will be passing it around a bit.

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    • hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Appreciate that. Got a backlog of 200+ topics I still need to write about, so little by little.

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  • some_random_nick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t expand it any further, as it already covers most of the important stuff. Far more people have to deal with Google’s bs than use R*ddit.

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    • hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fair enough. Sometimes it can make a difference though (speaking someone’s specific platform language). But yeah, I get it.

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• JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  > Reddit

  🤢🤮

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  • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m on my 5th permban now I think. Some of them were because I logged in with an alt on the same IP by mistake so they flagged it and banned those too. I didn’t violate any ToS, they just didn’t agree because (I asked ChatGPT to summarize the behavior of reddit mods/admins):

    Woke Authoritarianism

    This refers to the enforcement of progressive or “woke” ideology through authoritarian means, such as:

    • Censorship of dissenting views
    • Cancel culture (public shaming and professional consequences for opposing opinions)
    • De-platforming (banning people from social media or public forums)
    • Forced ideological conformity (e.g., requiring adherence to specific beliefs in workplaces or academia)

    Thought Policing

    This term comes from George Orwell’s 1984 and refers to the control and regulation of people’s thoughts, often through fear, social pressure, or punishment for wrongthink. In the modern context, it can include:

    • Policing language to ensure ideological purity
    • Monitoring people’s statements (even from the past) to punish deviation
    • Enforcing conformity through intimidation, cancelation, or ostracization

    And a followup response:

    Authoritarian Leftism – When left-wing ideology is enforced through censorship, suppression of dissent, and ideological purity tests.

    Neoprogressivism / Woke Authoritarianism – Some critics use these terms to describe far-left movements that use de-platforming, cancel culture, and corporate-enforced speech restrictions to control discourse.

    Cultural Marxism (controversial term) – Some argue that elements of Marxist thought, particularly in cultural institutions, are used to enforce ideological dominance. However, this term is often misused or overgeneralized.

    Techno-Authoritarianism – When social media platforms and tech companies enforce ideological conformity through bans, shadowbanning, and algorithmic control.

    Soft Totalitarianism (coined by Rod Dreher) – Unlike classic totalitarianism (which uses force and violence), this is a modern, decentralized form of control through social shaming, cancel culture, and corporate censorship.

    ChatGPT seems to have hit the nail on the head, I didn’t even know “Woke Authoritarianism” was an actual term.

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    • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Err what?

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love how every website leans on JavaScript as a crutch.

  Wait. No I don’t.

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Happens to me all the time on a VPN.

  It isn’t every IP. I just change tunnels.

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• shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Spez deserves to be slapped

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  • waxy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Spez deserves to be Luigi’d

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• DicJacobus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  file a ticket.

  You have been permanatley banned from Reddit. if you feel this was a mistake, please use the appeal process

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  • nodiratime@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, I questioned the second and third temp bans they gave me. After the last (so, the third) they banned me. I suspect it’s because I was asking.

    Their reasons of course were bullshit, for every single ban.

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• tauren@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was surprised when I found out that reuters.com blocks mullvad vpn.

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  • Rin@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Their loss

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just switch servers once or twice, usually works for me.

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    • tauren@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I use archive.is if I really need to read one of their articles. My point is, it is strange that they block read-only access like that.

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  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They likely just use a block list.

    If a not was using the vpn server you connected to then it ends up on the list for a few days.

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  • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Interesting that a news site would block a VPN.

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    • Aux@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bots use VPNs a lot for scrapping and other activities.

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Interesting that you consider reddit a news site.

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• HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I always get that screen when I forget to turn off my VPN while accessing a reddit quote.

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  • hansolo@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You should get a better VPN. Mine only gives me this rarely, often when I’m using a node that I can assume is where a bunch of prime would use to run bots.

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    • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I like Mullvad. Probably the only reason I get the error is there’s one country that’s a fav, but some sites don’t like it because of its privacy restrictions … which ofc is why it’s my fav.

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• DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just putting this out there, if you use startpage you can use the anonymous view feature to get around this :) Obviously avoiding reddit is better but if it’s the only available resource…

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• tyrant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just found a Firefox extension that let’s you open these blocked pages in archive. Pretty excited to bypass the bs of VPN blocks

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  • Lunar_Voyager@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    [deleted]

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    • tyrant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Web archives

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• FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At least they told you you’re blocked, instead of just making random parts of it not work with zero communication

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• wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  File a ticket!

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• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just use a different vpn server…

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  • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Using a VPN to log into reddit can get you account shadowbanned instantly. Just an FYI.

    What’s worse is it’s infectious. If you log into your main account on a VPN, get shadowbanned and change accounts without clearing your history, changing IP and deleting all your cookies, your next account will also get immediately shadowbanned.

    If you argue about politics, shadowban. If you make too many reports, shadowban. If you do anything on reddit that isn’t the most milquetoast, bot-like comments on media and celebrities, you will likely get banned or shadowbanned.

    The place is overrun with very convincing AI bots that even go as far as criticizing reddit to look convincing, but a large portion of users aren’t even real anymore, maybe as high as half in some communities by my reckoning.

    They don’t want human users anymore. They announced a few years ago they were using reddit as a “test bed” for new AI models, they want a site that millions of people visit every day that looks like a social media site where users can communicate, but they want to be able to control what everyone is saying and discussing with a control panel, and it’s working to fantastic effect.

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    • misteloct@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In my experience is the bans have been very explicit, strangely designed to humiliate. Otherwise the same.

      My “threatening violence” comment was “Elon Musk’s fumes are fatally toxic”. Permabanned from 4 subreddits and 3 day site wide, just that exact string.

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    • tacobellhop@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just for a tack on to this everybody needs to be aware of contentcyborg.ai

      Nothing digital is real. Digital reality is a distraction. They burned the libraries.

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    • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I posted stuff about politics and my account suddenly couldn’t comment. Weird error messages, no actual communication from Reddit about what or why or how long. Decisions about functionality are being made in meetings by people who are absolutely not interested in the users as anything but things whose only value is whether they can be monetized.

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  • misteloct@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    None of Mullvad’s have ever worked for Reddit for me in years.

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    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fucking vpn blocking cowards.

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    • Dop@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ireland works fine here. Dunno about the shadowban, I still get answers on the occasional thread I create whenever I can’t get an answer on Lemmy. Still, fuck u/spez.

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  • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For what it’s worth I use PIA and have never been shadowbanned or banned using any endpoint in any country on new accounts there. I use throwaway non-gmail email accounts to segment each account so they can’t track between them, all on different VPN endpoints per account. It’s sad that this is what it takes to prevent them from stalking me.

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• xektop@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That is an easy way to make less traffic from people that don’t really care. When I see it, I close the page and look for the next result.

  If you really need to know what is written there I guess you can Log in or use redlib or something like that.

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• Shape4985@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yep, i get the same thing

  Youtube also blocks me in a similar way.

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• Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thankfully Redlib exists.

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