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

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Post by doodlebugging »

mlrtime wrote: post #329
scarface_74 wrote: post #323

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then if you don’t want your content to be there…delete it instead of making a worse experience for everyone else. If you don’t like a restaurant, don’t go. Don’t go there and shit on the tables. A restaurant was also “meant” for you to go in. But not make the experience worse for everyone else because you don’t like it anymore

I'm late to the discussion here, but I use shreddit. It edits and deletes all my past comments. However I found recently there are websites that have every single one of my old comments accessible and I'm sure reddit itself does to. Once you comment it's there forever.

This is also my experience. Editing or deleting comments on reddit doesn't permanently remove them since there are so many operators updating their own reddit streams in real time. It never goes away, it just takes a little more effort to find the original.

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

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Post by doodlebugging »

scarface_74 wrote: post #324
doodlebugging wrote: post #291

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Since many of your replies are referencing my post I would just like to add that I am not 12. I'm closer to 9 (in dog years). I grew up a long time ago, maybe before you were even a sparkle in your parent's eyes and a new name on the family Christmas card.

If the “74” in my name didn’t give you a hint. I’m not exactly young. Did you also go back to the old Usenet groups that you use to post in and pollute the few rensining good ones with useless garbage? If you are that old, you should know better

Happy 50th birthday, or close I guess. I suspected it might be related to age but with so many number accounts nowadays on various platforms it really isn't as strong a personal identifier.

I am that old. I've learned a lot over the years. The most important thing that I have learned is that I'm not alone. I am one of many - unique, like everyone else. In the grand scheme, nothing that I post anywhere is very important. Threads go stale, subject matter becomes obsolete, community knowledge fades as new fads appear, and it's all part of a normal condition. If I completely delete or edit every comment I have ever made under all my former usernames it will only affect a very tiny part of reddit's accumulated content.

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

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Post by soderfoo »

takeda wrote: post #320
soderfoo wrote: post #304

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What's the user culture like? I haven't had time to check it out myself.

It depends a lot which server you join, https://beehaw.org it's very welcoming, https://lemmygrad.ml is full of tankies that hate the West (supposedly it's about communism, because original creator is a communist, but it's more pro Russia pro China, anti US and in support anything the West doesn't support and vice versa). If you go to https://lemmy.world (the biggest server) you'll see mostly memes. Though you can su…

Thanks this is very informative.

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

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Post by Sleepful »

dotnet00 wrote: post #240
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.

For anyone reading this and wondering about other good platforms... Discourse [1] is awesome. Of course, someone has to pay for the hosting. Can't have someone else's cake and eat it too.

[1] https://discourse.org/

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

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Post by keepamovin »

stepupmakeup wrote: post #204
ink_13 wrote: post #126

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Given how easy it is to create a reddit account I don't know how much privacy is being surrendered in practical terms

Creating a reddit account took 25 seconds and they even generated a username for me. No email verification necessary, sorry to a@example.com if you're getting emails about reddit user "Agile_Rectangle729"

Hahahaha! Thank you for the laugh

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

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Post by keepamovin »

nullindividual wrote: post #137
hyperdimension wrote: post #22

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I remember getting a laptop with Windows 8 about ten years ago and upon turning it on, the Out-of Box Experience (OOBE) "greeted" me, something like 'Hi. We're getting things set up for you' "Hi?" "We?" You are a piece of software. There is no "we" here. I can't even begin to express how infantilizing that sounds to my ears. Anyway, I didn't last long on Windows for that laptop. /rant

Would you rather have a hex code? “Please wait and consult your operators manual: 0x0A”

Somehow the invocation of esoteric mastery, invoked by hex codes, could intimidate the ‘user’ into compliant (low cost) behavior via the appearance of authority

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

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Post by fabian9 »

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/ ).

{"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 itsTyrion »

AnarchismIsCool wrote: post #105
sentientslug wrote: post #100

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I suppose that works if you want to interact with the three people on there.

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

I actually dislike the fedi fragmentation too much. Yes, ik that's the appeal for some people but I really don't like just how split it is

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

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Post by ddingus »

beeburrt wrote: post #271
ddingus wrote: post #219

Surely one of us here can start a new Reddit. Call it not Reddit. The original vision of the site being self funded by users for users is a good one. I would argue a necessary one. Just look at all the high value discussion being lost due to Reddit being enshittified

There's https://lobste.rs

Thanks!

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

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Post by account42 »

al_borland wrote: post #296
JeremyNT wrote: post #250

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It's just so much better than anything else even despite it all. Which, honestly, is perplexing. It doesn't seem like it would take much capital to replicate Reddit pre-enshittification, but nobody seems to even be trying. I guess nobody can imagine making money off of a less shitty Reddit. Maybe the things about it that suck for users are the only things that make business people excited.

Before Reddit (and digg, and Facebook groups), forums were pretty popular. I was on many of them and they were simply run by passionate members of a community, not someone looking to scale to a multi-billion dollar company. It was just some guy willing to burn a little time and a little cash to talk to like-minded people about stuff they found interesting. It’s expensive when consolidated into one mega-site like Redd…

And such forums still exist, they're just not on the top of Google search results.
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