I just wanted to peek at the front page. I guess they don’t want people to use their shit anymore. I’m starting to believe in the dead internet theory.
Is anyone aware that you have to change this? It bases it off your IP as soon as you make an account you have to change that in your settings to turn that off. Not sure if this helps at all but I just don’t understand
I don’t think that this affects their blocking. If it did, then bots would be able to change this to get around it as well.
Ah, I remember this crap. It’ll show you content based on location. I’m almost certain that it’s unrelated to the block.
Tech companies are now the hot new thing for MBAs to put into their resumes. That’s why you see this enshittification. Used to be the money people didn’t want to work in tech because it made them feel dumb. That was what made the industry work. Those times are over.
MBA’s do not get enough shit for being a root cause of the deterioration for modern life.
It really is a bullshit career. Companies should be run by people who came up in the industry and learned all the pitfalls rather than college kids who learned how to not pay contracts until they’re legally forced to.
Used to be the money people didn’t want to work in tech because it made them feel dumb.
No one has ever spent more than five minutes speaking to a tech worker and felt dumb afterwards.
That was what made the industry work.
Yeah, tech companies had such a high success rate from 1990-2010.
Solid points, my dude.
Found the junior mba
I don’t imagine the tens of thousands of shitty tech startups by people who don’t know anything about tech which are popping up and exploding (in the bad way) are doing so well for the “success rate” now.
Reddit got run down because they were trying to make it turn more profit because they were planning to IPO for maximum value.
That’s actually a deprecation warning. You’re meant to move to a more modern platform.
I’m already here.
We’ll make something better.
How do we know you’re actually here though? 🤔
From my limited understanding… If he was from a different instance he would have a username like this: username@nerdshit.nerdshit
Yeah, reddit started blocking VPN users a few months ago unless you log in.
Also TOR, but you can easily tell it to use a different circuit and most of the times it isn’t blocked, in my experience.
While I do agree that this is bad, I’m a little confused—what does this have to do with dead internet theory? Doesn’t that relate to users being bots?
That no one really uses reddit, that it’s dominated by bots masquerading as real people.
I swear you can actually spot entire chains of comments consisting of only bots replying to other bots on every single submission that makes it to the front page. It’s baffling how fast and hard reddit has fallen.
Do you have an example? I’m genuinely curious, I’ve heard a lot about this theory but can’t really imagine how you would differentiate bots from mindless redditors farming for karma by saying „This.“
The obvious ones are simple repost bots. They start with 1 account reposting some popular submission, then you’ll likely find at least 1 or more other accounts in the comments reposting a popular comment from the original post. They typically are created at the same time and have a similar pattern of maybe a handful of comments and submissions. When I was still using Reddit I saw them all the time on /r/all. Nowadays you also find a lot of bots reposting someone else’s comment in the same chain, maybe with slight grammatical changes. There’s some people and even a bot account that call those accounts out. I’ve seen a metric shitton of this happening since the last big shitstorm (which also really changed the content on /r/all for the worse).
I think LLM based ones are probably harder to spot because they would sound a lot more natural and their profiles would look more organic.
Hey sorry for the late reply, I was just waiting for the perfect example, and I found one: https://kbin.social/m/reddit@lemmy.world/t/995008/Reddit-if-full-of-bots-thread-reposted-exactly-the-same
Lol yeah I can’t get on it at work anymore. Goodbye to all the traffic they get from people looking for tech advice on corporate networks. Fucking morons.
i’ve never had an office job but it’s extremely obnoxious they seem to regularly filter the internet like you’re in school. there were so so many important resources (including youtube) which had legitimate educational and technical value they’d take away as some bullshit austerity ritual
That isn’t the issue here. I agree with you, but in this case the filter is on Reddit’s side. It is common and justifiable for corporate machines to use a vpn. Sometimes public traffic doesn’t go through, but not always.
A shame you had lame tech Bros at your job. Ive had a couple office jobs and they both restricted a ton of stuff but they left reddit open.
My work is also banned due to “suspicious” activity.
They’re banning VPNs. I have no idea why, but reddit is unusable at this point.
It could be a simple way to prevent bots which clearly isn’t working, or perhaps users who reveal their IP address are worth more to advertisers.
users who reveal their IP address are worth more to advertisers.
I suspect they’re able to track a lot of they have your IP address.
Don’t they have an onion site?
So people training their AI models have to pay them instead of scraping them for free. Got to make those share holders happy, right? Even if it goes against its own founding ideals.
Every time I see that stupid little alien, I change my mind about visiting. I see Spez’s smug grin on that stupid little goo blob avatar and it just makes me want to find my info anywhere else.
Anytime I think about making a comment if I happen to be on reddit researching a niche thing, I think “do I want to give Spez $5? FUCK NO!”
He can make his own content. I couldn’t imagine putting in a thankless job moderating and watching that shitter slide up to the bank to withdrawal your free time and effort.
All jokes aside, fuck that greedy sociopath.
Steve Fart Huffer
Anyone else find it ironic that the ‘papers please’ character wears a fedora?
Changing the url to sh.reddit.com lets you get around it. Been using that when I’ve needed to look up a reddit thread at work.
Thank you
Lol, what did you say that got you banned?
This just happens if you’re using a VPN… notice how it says “login to your Reddit account”?
Switching to a good VPN server, or turning off the VPN will let you browse Reddit again.
During prime time in my experience almost all VPN server IPs are blocked. I find this generally really odd since I thought they even offer an onion link for the TOR network.
Just login bro, you don’t even have to interact, just lurk around.
Just install the neuralink chip into your brain bro, it doesn’t even hurt, just don’t value privacy.
I would if Elon would accept me, privacy doesn’t exist anymore anyways. Just sell yourself, it’s free money.
Are you using a vpn?
Fuck Reddit and their demogogue mods.
Oh, there’s a fair amount if those here too.
nah, that would be twitter. reddit is catching up tho.
My recent permaban from r/worldnews for stating the obvious (is “Iran attacks Israel” still the right title for a stickied thread on the events in Gaza?) has had the positive effect of making me renew with Lemmy.
r/worldnews is a cesspool of hasbara fanboys, but their unilateral view on the conflict starts to draw away people from their toxic propaganda.
Don’t even waste your time in that echo chamber, it’s almost as bad as r/politics. They did you a favor by banning you.
