Reddit is so far from what it was back when it was cool. I get it: they need to make money. And they will make money. But I don’t want to play there. Where else can I go?
Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're not the target user.
I know. A few years later, I was helping my mom set up a new laptop and during the same OOBE, I made pretty much the same comment, and she seemed to think it was just fine or at least not weird-sounding. Come to think of it, I wonder if it's for the same thing that gets people to refer to Google Assistant/Siri/et c. as 'she'. I've noticed that a lot also.
It's normal behavior, we assign gender to all sorts of objects be they made of metal and float on water or are just a series of electrons informing metal gates.
The message is fine for the true target audience which is vastly different from the audience of the 80s and 90s. Microsoft and Apple (well, Apple HAS been using friendly language since the 80s!) are smart to use friendly language.
Plus, it gets us all used to our corporate god-kings when we're dominated by the AI angels.
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#153We were told that the boycotts last year were the end of reddit, or at least a substantial brain drain. Reddit was going to be a lawless wasteland because no mod would accept tending the garden anymore. Reddit is now a public company with a CEO that just got a huge compensation package while mods still work for free. Far from lawless, far from being a wasteland. Even the hacker community is still using reddit despite…
Uh, reddit already won what exactly? How does going public have anything to do with success for a company like this? It's a way to raise capital and compensate insiders, nothing special
Communities come and go. They are 95% reliant on the members, and some of their recent moves are adversarial. Everything there is becoming corporate, even the porn.
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#154Yes, same here. Let's just QUIT using Reddit. Enough is enough. If we tolerate corrupt behavior, we support corrupt behavior. And quite honestly, it's become such a pile of trash, anyway. Also, it's become so obvious that submissions and comments are being manipulated and pushed by tons of bots and industry interests, it's just a bad joke at this point.
All true, but I haven't found any forum that works for very localized (geographically or otherwise) interests than reddit. I've long ago stopped looking at or participating in any non-localized subreddit.
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#155I thought it was my company VPN that blocked reddit at first but no.
Weird move. I just wanted to see a discussion about some problems with I don't remember what software. I guess reddit is out of the list of websites to reach to.
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#156Reddit is so far from what it was back when it was cool. I get it: they need to make money. And they will make money. But I don’t want to play there. Where else can I go?
What subreddits do you frequent? If the smart people are still there, stay. If they are leaving, find out where to.
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#157Yes, same here. Let's just QUIT using Reddit. Enough is enough. If we tolerate corrupt behavior, we support corrupt behavior. And quite honestly, it's become such a pile of trash, anyway. Also, it's become so obvious that submissions and comments are being manipulated and pushed by tons of bots and industry interests, it's just a bad joke at this point.
What is the alternative? lemmy and mastodon are protocols, what specific site with high engagement and good (not over zealous) moderation is worth checking out?
HN is nice to lurk but you really gotta be a conformist. It all just feels like tribal bubbles. It really is making me appreciate free speech, I prefer the days when horrible people were allowed platform/reach. The state of society right now (not just on the internet) is not compatible with liberty and free thinker idealisms.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been part of their free labor since late 2005. Now they want to farm out my content with no compensation to me. They would have nothing of value without the content that users like myself freely provided. I donated my content without which they would never have gained any traction online. >If you could do the same on HN would you? How is your action not petty and trolling? I also edit comments on HN if the edi…
So exactly what do you propose? Should they pay everyone who makes a post or comment on Reddit? Do you feel the same way about HN? You are posting here for free and providing value. > This has never been my problem. It is a problem that they should have had the foresight to solve before they launched. Do you feel the same way about all of the companies that YC funds? If so, why are you commenting here “adding value”?
AFAIK HN doesn't have similar VPN access limits in place. Nor is HN restricting third party API access [1] or selling user content [2] for model training purposes.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy
[2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-ai-content-licensi...
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#159That's the final blow for me. The last use case was when esoteric discussion there would be one of the few search engine results. I've already long ago edited out all my old posts and deleted the accounts. So sad to see sites grow to become gated advertiser-friendly communities.
As an aside, I get irritated as all heck by the old, previously useful reddit threads that now show up in search results but with the actually useful information deleted by someone in a fit of rage. This is frustrating, since the information is not necessarily easy to find somewhere else. Or at all. If you find that you must do this, could you at least re-host your answers elsewhere and link to them?
You could try the PullPush archive, it may have the original comments prior to to deletion.
Main site:
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#160Tested, and ... no? I tried two different VPNs, currently on NordVPN ... no issue accessing Reddit. And I get that it's cool to bash Reddit on HN, but the sense that "I don't visit sites like that ... I exclusively visit HN" is really weird. For what it's worth I have an 18 Year Club account on Reddit and I'm still active.
It's not a perfect "block every VPN ip setup".
See this for the screen you get when it's blocking:
Perhaps when they detect abuse (screen scraping folks trying to avoid the API costs) from these shared IPs?