I've run into this issue also, for the past week or so. I'd rather stop using reddit altogether than use it without a VPN.
Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
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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…
The alternative is to simply not use it. Read books, hang out with friends, do some tinkering. Free thinking is perfectly well possible without Reddit, in our very society. Unless you have some really weird thoughts? Rubbing these thoughts in other peoples faces may not be viable, but it has never been, as far as I recall. And I'm glad for it.
Most communication happens on the internet these days. But also, my whole point is the "friends" bubble is increasingly getting smaller and tribal. We don't interact with strangers because our communication platforms optimize and moderate them away. How can democracy work if you can't talk to and convince fellow citizens on various controversial topics?
Even on HN, I was doing fine until I started commenting on political posts. My account started getting restricted when I stated the idea that Tor and similar software being used to undermine foreign governments and the works of many tech companies in this area is wrong, that democracy works for us but the "manifest destiny" approach of forcing democracy on others amounted to neo-colonialism.
If my views are wrong and unpopular, the downvote/karma system takes care of that. What's wrong today is, moderators and algorithms are herding us into tribal camps. People have forgotten how to passionately disagree with others without hating them or excommunicating them. We are being excommunicated from each other for the crime of thinking for ourselves.
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#263Tested, 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.
This happened for me when I wasn’t logged it, this is a likely factor. Were you logged in when testing this?
Not who you're replying to, but it happens to me logged in.
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#264We 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…
Reddit reports something like 200 million active users. It could lose 99% of those, and it would still have more people than most cities.
What, you want tumbleweeds to physically roll across your screen when you look up "reddit.com"?
It's just a website. Use it, or don't. Save what you want, knowing it won't last. Sucks, but the Internet was meant for document delivery, not to become the one and only permanent home of certain social interactions.
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#265Yes, 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.
Unfortunatelly it won't work/happen... even after huge protest and backlash reddit is still strong and go-to-place :-(
The protest was done in the worst possible way.
You don't PRIVATE the subreddits. You keep them visible, lock out new posts, and direct visitors to a successor website to continue the discussion.
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#267Earlier 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.
Twitter is doing fantastic. Just because people want to go back to more censorship doesn’t mean Twitter is dying.
> Twitter is doing fantastic.
Reported yesterday [0] that it’s worth 73% less than when elon took over.
You absolutely may have a different definition of fantastic but what was once one of the largest social sites losing 3/4 of its value in 15 months is significant.
aside from actual financial analysts, my own personal anecdata has pretty much mirrored their analysis. i’ve gone back and gave it an honest try like 4 or 5 times and each time has been worse than the previous. it just reinforced why i (and more and more people) choose to spend our time in other places.
[0] https://fortune.com/2024/03/30/fidelity-x-stake-73-decline-s...
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Good Ukrainian War info, though
Telegram has much better info, Reddit's is usually a few hours or days old
I dont always necessarily need or want the latest info. I find Reddit to be a good aggregator/filter that also acts as one of the walls against disinfo, i.e. some of the content never gets posted, or gets immediately debunked.
/r/credibledefense is my go-to
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So if you don’t like a place in the real world, do you vandalize it or just not go there?
It's silly to act like every online context has a real world analogue. But no, I don't vandalize it. Whatever you consider the real world equivalent of deleting my comments after the place has enshittified itself, that's what I do.
There is a difference between deleting a comment and purposefully posting meaningless junk.
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#270Short Reddit. Join Lobste.rs. I got locked out of the whole site, essentially because I use multiple accounts for anonymity reasons (as many do, given that almost all Reddit clients support it) combined with the fact that I accidentally posted to a subreddit from a different account than one I had been banned on, on that subreddit. (I'd literally forgotten. The reason doesn't matter, because even a single untoward or…
Me too! Can I have an invite?