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Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by maxcoder4 »

pmdr wrote: post #200
NegativeK wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Respectfully, this is a small sampling of what's happening. Reddit and Twitter, the two posterchildren of poor management, have plenty of actual interaction. They also have a significant amount of shitty noise, which is incredibly off putting, but the average person is still more likely to go there than where our niche communities end up. They might be dying slowly, but they're not even on life support yet.

I think reddit is actually thriving. Everyone I know spends time there nowadays.

I think Reddit used to be a niche site for hackers [1], hobbyists and enthusiasts. Now it's a mainstream site where regular people browse news and memes. Maybe Reddit alienated it former audience, but it doesn't mean it's dying - it just changed.

[1] as in "hacker news"

Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by AnarchismIsCool »

throwanem wrote: post #109
AnarchismIsCool wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's actually starting to get really good. It's like early reddit before eternal September

On the fediverse it currently is eternal September.

I was there before the reddit explosion when the majority of the posts on the fediverse were from one guy who just vomited cccp propaganda all day. I think it's in a much more interesting place right now.

Reddit otoh started to become boomer-Facebook-meme-town some time around the onset of COVID and then hockey sticked last year.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by EasyMark »

dboreham wrote: post #33

Curious why a VPN is necessary to access Reddit. NSWF content that's blocked by the ISP?

- I use a VPN as generic connection, always

- i'm often on public wifi as I work remote and travel

- It's not really for reddit, it's for random other sites, and I switch IPs often as part of a multilayered privacy protocol

- I like keeping people trying to track me on their toes

- Primary reason is to keep ISP from tracking my activties when at home ~75% of my time. AT&T (and other ISPs) is well known for selling your info to 3rd parties

Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by GaryNumanVevo »

Ylpertnodi wrote: post #134
FredPret wrote: post #128

Reddit is such a toxic hole anyway. It's all posturing, stupid cutesy language, and victim mindset. I'm so glad the site got awful as the content - we're all better off without.

Good Ukrainian War info, though

Telegram has much better info, Reddit's is usually a few hours or days old

Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by dotnet00 »

omoikane wrote: post #187
ktosobcy wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunatelly it won't work/happen... even after huge protest and backlash reddit is still strong and go-to-place :-(

I have observed a recurring pattern of "this popular place is doing something I don't like! Let's all move to a less popular place, that will show them!" Time and time again, the people who made the move learned that they were the minority in what they didn't like. Also, while the old place might have a greater variety of people (good and bad), the new place is often filled with many people who were angry about the o…

Yep, I've seen the same phenomenon.

Another example being of X to the fediverse. So many people switched over, made not being on X their entire identity, freaked out when the place wasn't as sanitized as X and eventually just went back.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by pmdr »

handsclean wrote: post #225
pmdr wrote: post #133

We 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…

Front page vote counts are now typically 1/10th what they were before the exodus, and bot content is visibly more prevalent. If you expected the website to die overnight, that was just an unrealistic definition of failure for a large website. Digg, the failure that founded Reddit, is still alive today. MySpace still exists. AOL is still selling dial-up internet. Failure at this scale is a slow slide to irrelevance, a…

> Front page vote counts are now typically 1/10th what they were

Is that really a reliable metric for activity there? Genuinely curious. What if more content is being published and popular posts don't get as much voting because of the churn?

> before the exodus

Exodus to where, exactly? A few thousand users switching to some obscure alternative isn't much. Sure, people left Twitter, but Threads and Bluesky are way bigger than any reddit alternative.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by enronmusk »

Tijdreiziger wrote: post #80
enronmusk wrote: post #40

FWIW I too am unable to access reddit using my home (residential) IP. I've never had an account there, so I have no idea why they would block my IP. I also haven't scraped anything, ever. Previously I could access old.reddit.com, but now that's blocked too. I also can't create an account -- I get "403 forbidden", even if I specify an email address and clear my cookies. I even created a support ticket about this a few…

Check if your IP is accidentally marked as a VPN IP at the big IP location providers (e.g. https://ipinfo.io/ ).

Thanks, but I did check that earlier as well. My private, static address is correctly labeled:

  privacy:
    vpn: false
    proxy: false
    tor: false
    relay: false
    hosting: false
    service: ""

Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by matteoraso »

perihelions wrote: post #74

So, going forwards—where should someone who lives in a repressive country go, to read and interact with Westerners? Now, practically every social website (*except HN) blocks you if you use a VPN, and you go to prison if you don't. You're twice-walled in.

Facebook and Reddit both have an onion mirror.

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Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by dotnet00 »

pmdr wrote: post #133

We 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…

I do still insist that they've suffered a brain drain that has not recovered. A lot of niche communities are instead mainly on discord now (which is arguably worse due to no search engine visibility) and when I stumble onto reddit looking for info on something technical, I often see deleted/edited out comments instead of potentially useful responses.
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