First time I’ve seen this sitting behind my shitty VPN. If the frontpage /r/normaldayinrussia posts didn’t make you raise an eyebrow knowing their denying access to people for running a VPN should at least make you second guess.
Get out now, save yourself.
Doesn’t apply to old.reddit.com ironically.
Not yet at least.
It gets steadily worse and will continue to get worse. But slowly enough that the critical mass of dumb-dumbs probably won’t ever leave. Fortunately it’s no longer our problem.
I’ve tried half a dozen servers using Mullvad, all get that message. Soon as I turn the VPN off, it works.
One, we did:-D; and two, you can lead a horse to water but… you cannot make selfish & lazy people think.:-(
Only when it affects them personally will they begin to care, and even there they will merely whine and act all shocked - shocked I tell you! SHOCKED!!! - rather than attempt to do anything about it. Huffman was right: the protests were doomed to fail, in the sense that advertisers still pay money to the site.
It may have failed from Huffman’s POV, but it’s a win for those of us who needed that final push to leave that hellsite forever.
Every dollar the advertisers pay reddit is a dollar they can’t pay a site I actually use.
If reddit squanders it on BS, they might just accidentally be doing us all a favor by making one of America’s worst industries a little poorer.
Except that we (societally) have decided that all of our industries must rely on advertising dollars in order to survive, especially “news” media. I do not like advertising either, but it serves a role, and unless we are willing to pony up to change the system that is just how it is.
I’ve been getting this screen for weeks too, on what is generally considered a top quality VPN with a privacy focus.
I guess if they don’t want me there, it’s whatever. I also have leechblock configured so I have to override that every time I visit the domain. It’s a shame that -reddit.com makes Google and most other search engines worse than useless for anything that wont generate revenue for someone. I want the spirit of the early 2000’s internet with gigabit speeds. Is that too much to ask?
I stopped going to reddit as well as wrote an investor to grab my path of exile news and haven’t looked back since - this would rile me up certainly otherwise
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Ok that makes more sense
Oddly enough it only pops up sometimes. I have a hypothesis that they don’t have a good list of VPN IPs try connecting to a different server.
Probably depends of if your IP is classified as a residential or a cloud or data center IP address.
Some VPNs do some shady shit to run on a VPN on a residential connection without the knowledge of residents. Of course, it’s also possible that their network policies leave out some VPN’s IP addresses unintentionally.
Just abandoned ship myself. Saw a post on there this morning that they were headed for IPO. Decided it was time to finally start looking elsewhere.
Welcome. I think you will find lemmy is a sufficient substitute. Not as fast pace as reddit but it turns out to be a good thing. You also don’t have to worry so much about comments falling into the abyss. With comment counts topping out at around 500 you can respond to the main post and still get engagement.
That will probably change as lemmy grows but for now it’s nice. Overall it’s reddit but a different speed.
So far it does feel like a re-imagining of traditional internet forum of the early 00s, but Reddit inspired. I actually had no idea about the whole “Fediverse” thing until today, but so far it seems really promising that there isn’t any one central agency in control of the platform. Maybe that’s a misunderstanding though.
Am I correct in thinking that Fediverse operates somewhat like the internet? Is it just a collection of end-points sharing data through a single protocol and if one shuts down, the rest aren’t affected? Or is there a host that is technically in control of Lemmy as a whole?
I think so. I’m no expert though.
