Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections.

Who cares. Reddit is dead to me, and spez murdered it.
Reddit was amazing. I will always enjoy and fondly remember what it was like before Spez fucked up one of the most reputable cultures and brands in internet history. Fuck that guy... just... what a fucking shithead to destroy something so wonderful.
- I just wanna look at memes, cats, and news and hang out in the comment section without being exposed to ads, is that too much to ask?I hope their IPO sucks and they get shorted i to oblivion while they bleed off users month over month, because thats whats going to happen if they keep pulling this sort of stuff.
  
  when is the IPO (what is an ipo) happening? i want to see their stock graph fall and jerk off to it
  
  I've been hanging out in imgur, which is generally nice for memes and cats, and kbin for news. It's been surprisingly effective.
  
  Throw few bucks at your app developer, instance hoster, and Lemmy dev team.
- 12 years that place was more of my life then i care to admit. constantly scrolling.
  ....honestly i should thank him for breaking that addiction
  
  This is one of the things I like about Lemmy. I can scroll through and be done in 10-20 minutes. More if I want, but otherwise, the rest of the day is mine for the taking. It's like I've escaped and reclaimed my time.
  
  Much the same, I was lost for a while till I adjusted.
- It’s going to take years, but Lemmy will kill Reddit. People like authenticity. Reddit will lose authenticity as it antagonizes its user base through its monetization efforts.
  A core group of people who value that authenticity above all else migrated after Reddit betrayed its values this past summer. They will be the early adopters of this brand new community. It’s happened before on the internet. People hate bullshit. They want to connect with real people that have good intentions and are good faith contributors, free of the influence of investors trying to monetize those relationships.
  
  My bar isn't set too high to beat Reddit.
  I'd be perfectly happy if we have small but thriving communities spread throughout the fediverse on a diverse set of niche topics.
  We're in a good place for memes, star trek, and general discussion, niche content still has ways to go.
  But to those people that are trying and posting to niche communities, I see you and I appreciate you!
  
  I like the way you think.
- Couldn't have said it better myself, haven't been back once since I joined Lemmy and I never will.
  
  I only go back when there's an answer to a DDG search. There's so much valuable information there, but as time goes by, that will change and the answers will become less accurate. In ten years, it'll be a graveyard.
  
  I've been back a few times for specific communities that haven't moved over, so like once or twice a week
  It's much like when I initially went from Digg to Reddit; it was dramatic then with time it was less unless until one day I realized I hadn't been back to Digg in forever.
  
  Same
- The issue is, that a lot of Google searches lead to reddit
  
  It's quite annoying actually. A huge number of the results return pages that are years old and a huge chunk of the comments are just gone.
  I know why I know everyone went through all their posts and edited or deleted them or both but it shouldn't be returning in search results now.
- Honestly you took the words right out of my mouth. I literally could not have said it better myself. I hate that man, and his company for what they did to one of my absolute favourite pieces of the Internet. Reddit will live in on history, because I sure as hell won't go there anymore.
  Reddit will keep making horrible decision after horrible decision, completing the process of enshitification, until they slowly piss off their remaining userbase one by one until they have nothing left and go the way of Digg. It's gonna take a long time because people hate change, but they usually hate bullshit more than that and everyone has a breaking point.
  
  Don't just blame Spez...that what the board wants you to strawman.
  Blame the board as well
- Honestly, this is part of a broader trend of enshittification sweeping the Internet these days. It's not just spez, it's any SV bro from the current crop of technology companies. I think this is a lesson worth remembering for all of us who took the freedom and magic of the Internet for granted.
  
  Absolutely. Cory Doctorow's Def Con 31 talk really nailed it. I've listened to it like 3 times. He is the person who coined the term "enshitification" and the talk describes what it is, how it happens, and some things we can do to prevent it. The Q&A at the end is also awesome.
- It's all about Lemmy now. Lemmy is the future.
- I was active on reddit for quite a while and by contributing and visiting the site making reddit money.
  I have no desire to feed their greed and what they pulled with their API pricing was nothing but greed and shortsightedness.
  I'm gone from reddit for good.
- Who cares
  it still has a shitload of valuable content and will continue to generate lots of it
- Who cares. Reddit is dead to me, and spez murdered it.
  Reddit was amazing. I will always enjoy and fondly remember what it was like before Spez fucked up one of the most reputable cultures and brands in internet history. Fuck that guy… just… what a fucking shithead to destroy something so wonderful.

- This is very apt.

"whoa there, pardner"
cunts

Lemmy is getting better and better at an exponential rate. I still use Reddit but eventually I expect to fully be on Lemmy.
- I just quit cold turkey and moved to lemmy fulltime. I miss some communities but whatev, its no biggie.
  
  There's too many answers over the past decade to abandon reddit completely. Most google searches for specific questions go back to Reddit.
  
  Same. I realised 95% of Reddit for me was just the bants and chitchat. There’s a few communities I miss, but I can easily get my kicks here.
  
  Same here. I do go back for some niche browsing, but mostly over here now.
- I used to use Reddit a lot more back before the whole API fiasco earlier this year. After that, I stopped, save for posts promoting Lemmy and one very specific subreddit that never migrated to Lemmy and that I just couldn't go without. (The other subreddits I could either do without or were already replicated on Lemmy.)
  
  If I may ask, what subreddit is that, and how big it is?
- I also used to rely more on reddit but just came to lemmy and can really see potential that with time will overpass reddit eventually
  
  I think we can overpass in quality some day but not in rough numbers(at least for now, reddit has to fuck up a lot to go down like twitter).
- I honestly haven’t used Reddit since the API exodus. The only reason I still have an account there is for when I have weird tech issues and the only search results are from old Reddit posts.
  I only check Lemmy a few times a day, (and I tend to browse /all so I’m not limited to only seeing my subscriptions,) so I always have fresh content whenever I open the app. My posts and comments tend to get better engagement on Lemmy anyways. They don’t get buried by power users and karma-farming bots, so I actually get real responses. Nearly every time I open my app, I have three or four comment responses to check.
- I miss like one community and sort by controversial to enjoy a really nice shit show.
- Some of my main communities didn't take hold here, so I keep my toes in those subreddits. In the past week, the experience has gotten measurably worse. It's wild.
  I wish those communities had reached a critical mass here.
  Someday.
- I browse old.reddit when I finish a show or movie for review and to touch in on hiphop releases. But without interaction. Lemmy is where I am now, fuck reddit I'm not a complete fuck Spez but they're a genuinely unlikeable company.

Translation: If we can't track you, you're of no interest to us.
- Basically. They need to know who you are.
  
  Correction: They need to know how they can market you to advertisers.

Weekly reminder that the best way to tell them off is to donate to the Lemmy developers, even 1 dollar is no doubt appreciated. Tell reddit off by using their competitor and paying for it.
- Reminder is much appreciated. I checked out their donation page and learned that they also accept XMR, which is great if you don't want to give the middleman leeches (paypal etc.) any data or money: https://join-lemmy.org/crypto
  
  Thanks to your comment, the Lemmy devs are now at least 20$ richer!
- The server you use would also like some love.
  
  In my case I'm my own server runner but hey I wouldn't mind a donation 😂

change your user agent to "fuck reddit and fuck you spez v. 1.2.45"
- v23.6.12

What's Reddit?
- On a second thought, let's not go to Reddit, tis a silly place.
- deleted
  
  What does Lemmy have to do with email?
- Just an isolated kinda-lemmy instance. Not worth it.
- A bit like Lemmy, but worse in every way.
- Lemmy but for squares; like pants are for squares
- Some shitty website that died like a year ago. No one of value uses it anymore.

Reddit is the new digg
- 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
  
  What does this mean?
  
  Aac S
- Lemmy is quickly embodying the worst of reddit too.
  
  I'd argue that, for Lemmy, it depends on which communities you subscribe to. Even if you subscribed to one community that now has stuff you don't like, there's a decent chance that another community on another instance has what you're looking for.
  
  Lemmy at least has alternative instances and instance blocking.
  
  "Lemmy" is not a platform, it is software you can use to make a platform (unless you're on .ml I guess).
  
  Of course it is, it's a reddit clone marketed to redditors.
  
  jpeg of a pig pooping /s
  
  The censorship is already worse here than it was on Reddit.

I get this even when signed in. Reddit really doesn't like VPNs at all these days.
- Advertisers probably don't like an anonymous user base.
  
  If you're logged in you're not anonymous
- Probably because they have some geo-locked content now (e.g. NFL games) and also because VPNs and proxies can potentially be used to bypass ads.

If I was going to r/FortNiteBR, I'd be using private browsing mode on mobile firefox too
- what happen on fortnitebr
  
  there's people who play forknife there, yuck! /s

Change the url to old. instead of www. and you can bypass it.
- I love that this is the solution to all the logged-out user crap they've pulled lately.
  Alas, I suspect it means they will drop old. in the near future.
  
  It also works with nsfw content they put behind an appwall.
  YoU HaVe tO UsE tHe ApP To ViEw ThIs CoNteNt. STFU with that BS.
  
  We’ve been speculating they will drop old. for quite a while now. Im wondering why they haven’t yet.
- Nope, doesn't help I'm afraid.
  
  Hmm, It's worked for me recently. I guess ymmv depending on your IP.
  
  Try to clear your cookies, they put a bad boy cookie in if you're violating the unwritten rules of le bacon

Seems like Spez & Co finally started figuring out just how much their traffic skews to porn seekers, and is useless to advertisers. Last ditch effort to get relevant user info and metrics to sell.

I think there is something there to start a conversation about how messed up the Internet is these days.
Walls are being placed up all over. Security teams are always freaking out and checks that charge the guest are being put up just to track people going in and out.
I think we have finally hit the breaking threshold of everyone getting online and gated communities are the only way people want to exist in the web now. I mean how many times has Lemmy been DDOS'd already on several instances. Scrapers are everywhere trying to steal data for any and all purposes.
As much as we may not like it for people that want a pleasant experience without effort entrance tickets might actually need to start being made to let people into the world's largest circus we ever made.

I've been meaning to say this, there has been surge of influx of users recently. Maybe this has to do with it? My VPN IP has been targeted. This isn't a problem if you switch to a different location as certain VPN IP addresses are flagged by websites. VPN providers tend to change the addresses so this shouldn't be a long term problem.
Since the debacle of Reddit and curtailing of privacy in their site, I log in to Reddit via Tor on Onion. It's awkward to do so, but I won't go back to the original site. They have gone in the way of Facebook with predatory harvesting of data.

old.reddit.com still works (for now..).
- Once the majority of the old guard mods dip or get removed then they'll get rid of it, but not sooner. Of course, with how things are going in that regard...

The only time I use reddit instead of Lemmy now is when I want to read discussion of TV shows I just watched.
- If I may ask, what is stopping you from discussing here on Lemmy ?
  
  Effort!
  I don't usually want to contribute my own opinion. I just want to read other people's and silently judge them if they disagree with me.
  
  The water coolers never came here organically. The communities exist here, but the bots are forwarding the articles from Reddit, the moderators are meta moderators of 50 different communities that sprung up on the first migration happened. Trying to actually hold conversations in most of the communities you're just screaming into the void.
  Then there's the problem of the community existing in six different nodes each with four life humans in them.
  A lot of the niche communities haven't hit the user density required for self-sustaining discourse.
  Then of course when you do start to get a community with a couple dozen active people moderation starts demanding tags and strict rules. I mean it's good to get out ahead of things if you can, but if you only have a couple dozen active users don't run them off.
  
  Community sizes are much different.
  
  For me it's the fact that I am one of approximately two people on Lemmy that has ever seen stuff like Haibane Renmei or Shin Sekai Yori, and there isn't almost a decade worth of discussions about them to read on this platform. I could start communities for them, but I'm not cut out to moderate, and I'm not quite a big enough fan of either to justify taking on the role of a community leader
  
  I still use Reddit for this same reason. It's the lack of communities. Every TV and every movie having a thread available. I'd love if lemmy started doing live discussions.

Wtf are they doing?
- They are trying to force researchers and other data grabbers onto the API. If people can scrape the website Reddit can't charge them
  
  Considering it took this long for them to figure out "empty user agent means it is a bot" and "well-known vpn may be used by bots", and old.reddit still apparently bypassing this, I'm going to guess they are not going to have much success.
  
  Can't you just spoof a user agent anyway?

- come on we all go to reddit when we need to find some information because its almost always guaranteed to be there
  Most of us dumped Reddit when third party apps went away. I personally haven't been back to Reddit since creating a Lemmy account. Screw that place; they don't deserve my patronage anymore. Or anyone's, for that matter. Continuing to use their content is justifying their shitty business practices. It'll never get better if people keep enabling it.
  Also, what specific info are you searching for that Reddit can provide? Their search function has always been garbage. Or are you referring to general content and/or subs that don't have an active userbase here yet?
  
  Their search function has always been garbage
  Yes, but Google's is very good. And it frequently returns links to Reddit.
  
  Google indexes Reddit, it does not index the fediverse

Fuck em

Works for me 😎
- Mullvad is more expensive than Nord and the like but I've been blocked far less on sites for some user DDOSing it.
  Had PIA before and it had issues way more often with blocked IP's
  
  I tried 3 different Mullvad IPs and none worked, maybe I just got unlucky

As a first-time user I'm enjoying Lemmy. I feel like I want to contribute mostly because I won't have an immediately antithetical comment to follow my own. Am not looking for an echo chamber, I'm looking for conversation and sharing ideas. Reddit has devolved and this seems like the best way forward, for now.
- Happy to hear that! While we may not have as many communities, its most good folk here. Mostly
- I hope you like Linux memes and weekly updates on what reddit is doing

"Woah there, pardner"? What the fuck is going on with Reddit? Do they think they are like cool cowboys in the old west?
- Uh, didn't you read the thing? Reddit's awesome and all!

Use an alternate front-end. There's a couple of them out there but usually the less popular domains are less laggy. I'm currently using https://teddit.hostux.net/r/popular
- Why not?
- Huh, I thought Teddit was dead due to the apicalypse. Glad to see it's still kicking.
  
  It's usable, but instances now deal with frequent rate-limits and you'll see 429 errors quite often.

try: !reddit@lemmy.world

Works with my VPN, I suspect this is a user agent issue rather than VPN
- Curious, I get it while searching too, using Proton. Haven't tried juggling servers though, might help.
- It was VPN issue for me. Some IPs in Proton VPN doesn't work. When I tried a different IP or turned the IP off, I could access again.
  Well, but most of the time I don't care enough to go in.

The less nefarious explination for what might be happening there is that Reddit has blocked that VPN ip because it's been used for bots and logging in with a known good account bypasses that block.

I just keep opening new accounts until they ban them, rinse and repeat

it's a bug or someone else used the same vpn (the same ip) to spam.

Might wanna wipe that IP next time.
- I am assuming it's a shared VPN address
  
  It is
  
  True, still though.

Noticed this last week. Thanks to split tunneling, it's easy avoidable.
- Doesn't split tunneling expose your actual ip to Reddit, which is presumably what op wants to avoid?
- Split tunneling generally means traffic destined to your local network isn’t tunneled while internet traffic is, which would result in the same outcome since Reddit doesn’t exist on your local network. Unless you have something more specific in mind.
  
  To me split tunneling just sounds like "traffic matching certain rules is routed differently", and the rules depend on the configuration 🤷
  Like mobile protonvpn lets you include/exclude certain apps/ips; desktop wireguard has allowed ips, etc.
  
  If you use Mullvad, You can have the Mullvad browser on the VPN while Firefox isn't.
- That's not avoiding it, that's playing straight into it. That's exactly the best case scenario they drew when they made the decision to block VPN connections. You are giving them your data and allowing them to fingerprint you.
  Old reddit still works fine, but I suspect it won't soon enough.

Just replace "www" with "old". I just use a Firefox addon that does that automatically after seeing that nonsense the other day.

I circumvent it with Tor Browser (Alpha) on my android mobile.

Didn't they have a similar glitch not too long ago?
https://windowsreport.com/reddit-user-agent-error/
- That glitch didn’t explicitly say using a VPN this one says to stop using a VPN
- That doesn’t have the bit about VPNs and if it’s happening multiple times, probably not a “glitch” and they are testing the waters.

Doesn't Reddit have a version for Tor? Seems strange
- does it still work?
  
  Tor works.

- On each page load, Reddit pings home with some of your browser stats, including your user agent. You can't block it (easily) because it randomly uses real API endpoints for the ping, for example it will ping to /api/comment which is used to post comments so if you block that you can't post...
  What I'm getting at is, they must be collecting that data for something, and doing it this way is obviously an attempt to fingerprint.
  Oh and if you're using multiple accounts in the same browser without containers/incognito/profiles then they know about it, they keep data on the browser about all of them and send it to the server so it can correlate them.
  
  Would using Tor prevent fingerprinting or at least minimise the collection of data? I log in to Reddit by Tor nowadays.

Works for me