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.
I use a VPN and they block me most days. I uninstalled the app and said fuqit.
Red Reader works but I have not found a solution for the browser. Sucks majorly because of search results leading you to a Reddit post.
Libdirect extension set to redirect you to a teddit client.
wat
Do you need to be able to post and upvote?
If not then install libredirect, go to the reddit settings, and ping instances until you find the lowest latency front end.
There you go. How you can read and the ui of most is pretty clean.
No login needed since I don’t have an account anymore. That addon works, at least for Reddit it seems. A lot of other sites like IG or TicTok do not. The former at least has another site & addon that works but most of those proxy sites seem to just be broken, even though the pinging still works.
Are/were you able to log in?
Not the person you asked, but yesn’t. It works while not connected to VPN, but when I am connected to VPN (that it rejects) the TOTP 2FA doesn’t work, so with 2FA enabled I cannot log in.
It shows a green checkmark, but clicking “Check code” does absolutely nothing, and I am still not logged in.
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
Ah, I remember this crap. It’ll show you content based on location. I’m almost certain that it’s unrelated to the block.
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.
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
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.
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.
All jokes aside, fuck that greedy sociopath.
Steve Fart Huffer
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.
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.
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.
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.
Don’t they have an onion site?
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.
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.
nah, that would be twitter. reddit is catching up tho.
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.
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.
Fuck Reddit and their demogogue mods.
Oh, there’s a fair amount if those here too.
Can you guys stop talking about your ex ? You’re with lemmy now, forget about the old bitch.
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.
Seems like the Bats community here on Lemmy.world was popular due to some new posts every day.
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
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?
Yeah I’ve noticed a lot of these vague negative comments about lemmy and I particularly don’t like them.
Its good to get specific so people can help if they are able.
Strange because the first thing I see when I open my profile in a private window is that single community I moderate.
It’s nice of you to want to help but it’s the kind of community you typically join only when you’re unlucky enough to be concerned 🙂
I was going to ask the same question, but I’d have nothing of real value to add. Great for those that do to have that kind of support though.
haha yeah thats a pretty specific topic dude :) I’d say keep it up, someone who’d be happy to see it here will some day join lemmy and it’ll mean something to them
I hear you, when I look at my profile I see that I moderate https://lemm.ee/c/badreligion (same problem, thousands back on whatever its called and a few upvotes, but rarely a comment. time and patience; we’ll rule over c/ empires someday you and I
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !badreligion@lemm.ee
bbut… she was the mother of my memes, blue! I know where I am but I can’t just walk away and not hurt. Love doesn’t just die, it fades away…
It’s the Reddit community, juste block it if you don’t want to see it
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
There is still content there. I find myself there often with a lot of web searches.
It hasn’t gone quite as bad as Twitter. Not yet anyway.
Become? Where you been, man?
every year for the past several they keep reaching a new low. it’s the sneaking liquor ads to recovering addicts who check the no liquor ads request that really hurt. yeah, they pump liquor ads to addicts who requested for them to stop… but they REALLY care about minorities and lgbtq issues and stuff. YEAH RIGHT… real and true egalitarians, you can trust them as your champions… they’re not just another corporate satan, they’re different…
