I love how search engines display inaccessible links.
STOP GOING TO REDDIT!!!
I can’t believe how often I have to say this.
I hate the modern web
Submitted 4 days ago by daggermoon@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There are a few communities on Reddit that aren’t represented on here. So I still go to Reddit some.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days 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.
Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I’ve stopped casually browsing Reddit but sometimes it’s the only way to get somewhat decent search results
silverlose@lemm.ee 4 days 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
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
People are still on X even after their owner gave a Nazi salute on national television.
quack@lemmy.zip 3 days 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.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
Ironfist@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
It’s an addiction, it’s hard to break.
SpitefulSprite@lemmy.world 3 days 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
VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
PenyihirEmas@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Lemmy is not grown yet,so yeah i’m forced to use reddit.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 days 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”.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days ago
How’s the search engine supposed to know you’re blocked from Reddit?
daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Good point, Reddit is the real problem.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
“THE MACHINE KNOWS”
quack@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Dogshit website anyway.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
that’s on you for preventing the billion dollar company from tracking your every move ;)
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s hilarious that you made me curious enough to look up RDDT’s stock price today, down 9% today alone lol.
OpenStars@piefed.social 4 days ago
It did not used to be this way. Every website result used to be "cached", but not anymore...
Enshittification 😔
Rooty@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The fedora tells you everything.
Hupf@feddit.org 3 days ago
I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.
HappinessPill@lemmy.ml 3 days 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
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 3 days 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?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I consider this more of a feature than a bug.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Well, fine with me. Closing one tab is no big deal, let the website die
hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
Saprophyte@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Nice blog you have there. I appreciate the content and will be passing it around a bit.
hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Appreciate that. Got a backlog of 200+ topics I still need to write about, so little by little.
some_random_nick@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Fair enough. Sometimes it can make a difference though (speaking someone’s specific platform language). But yeah, I get it.
independantiste@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
That happens on some VPNs
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 4 days ago
"shouldn’t happen all the time on VPNs
Safety and privacy for companies, but not for users.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It happens more often than not with Mullvad.
dan@upvote.au 4 days 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.
heavydust@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
It happens all the time with me, I see it as a blessing.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Sounds like a you problem
closes ticket
samus12345@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Rin@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I’d love to punt that smug fedora wearing fuck
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You know a site is good when its mascot makes you feel intense uncontrollable rage deep in your soul.
DicJacobus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
file a ticket.
You have been permanatley banned from Reddit. if you feel this was a mistake, please use the appeal process
nodiratime@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
> Reddit
🤢🤮
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
tauren@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I was surprised when I found out that reuters.com blocks mullvad vpn.
Rin@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Their loss
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Just switch servers once or twice, usually works for me.
tauren@lemm.ee 3 days 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.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days 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.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Interesting that a news site would block a VPN.
Aux@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Bots use VPNs a lot for scrapping and other activities.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Interesting that you consider reddit a news site.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I love how every website leans on JavaScript as a crutch.
Wait. No I don’t.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
Happens to me all the time on a VPN.
It isn’t every IP. I just change tunnels.
shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Spez deserves to be slapped
waxy@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Spez deserves to be Luigi’d
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I always get that screen when I forget to turn off my VPN while accessing a reddit quote.
hansolo@lemm.ee 3 days 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.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 3 days 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.
DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml 3 days 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…
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 3 days ago
At least they told you you’re blocked, instead of just making random parts of it not work with zero communication
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
File a ticket!
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Just use a different vpn server…
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
misteloct@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
tacobellhop@midwest.social 3 days 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.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 3 days 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.
misteloct@lemmy.world 3 days ago
None of Mullvad’s have ever worked for Reddit for me in years.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Fucking vpn blocking cowards.
Dop@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
xektop@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This is the reason I never had a twitter account. Why would I bother making an account if I don’t know why I would want one in the first place?
tyrant@lemmy.world 4 days 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
Shape4985@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Yep, i get the same thing
Youtube also blocks me in a similar way.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 days ago
At some point, the mistake was using Reddit to begin with.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It was the only search result relevant to my query.
perishthethought@lemm.ee 4 days 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.
tal@lemmy.today 4 days ago
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
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days 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.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 3 days ago
idk lately ive had more help outside it on random forums, just dont add reddit to your search
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days 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.
Aux@feddit.uk 3 days 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.