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.

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    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

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      Ah, I remember this crap. It’ll show you content based on location. I’m almost certain that it’s unrelated to the block.

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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        They’re banning VPNs. I have no idea why, but reddit is unusable at this point.

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          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.

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          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.

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      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

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        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.

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    That’s actually a deprecation warning. You’re meant to move to a more modern platform.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        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.

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    Just login bro, you don’t even have to interact, just lurk around.

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      Just install the neuralink chip into your brain bro, it doesn’t even hurt, just don’t value privacy.

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        I would if Elon would accept me, privacy doesn’t exist anymore anyways. Just sell yourself, it’s free money.

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        It’s ok, I was mainly making a joke :-) I don’t mind a reddit related post every once in a while, it’s always funny to see what reddit turned into

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      I’m all for staying here on Lemmy: Lemmings are nicer than Redditors and the place is a lot higher S/N ratio.

      But… sadly, due to inertia, Reddit is still where a lot of stuff is squarely at. There are long-established Reddit communities - often nice, well behaved communities - that don’t give a toss about the Reddit drama, and are simply not interested in moving out.

      I’ve been trying to kickstart an equivalent Reddit community here on Lemmy for almost a year. While there’s a handful of members, it’s basically just me infrequently posting in it. The original one on Reddit has almost 10K members, is fairly active, and clearly none of the members know anything about Lemmy - much less want to create an account and join my insignificant equivalent community. I keep it around in case Reddit enshittifies to such an extent that even those who don’t care start taking notice. But at the moment, inertia is much too strong.

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        Hello,

        I just pinged you into one of the communities we created for people in a similar situation to you (singler poster for a community, trying to keep it alive). Feel free to have a look there, I hope you’ll find it interesting to be able to share your experience with others

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        Seems like the Bats community here on Lemmy.world was popular due to some new posts every day.

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        which community? I tried to see if I could swing by to support your budding community whatever it is, so I had a look through your posts and couldnt see a community you moderate?

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    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.