My friend sent me this, the current state of Reddit. (I left during the app issue and haven’t looked back)
… and I am starting to see user agent and VPN blocks now just within the last few days… It’s officially over, so glad to be here. Been in the fediverse since the API shutdown. Bouncing between instances. First post on this one! Absolutely no regrets.
Yeah I read they tried to play that off as an accident. You don’t “accidentally” block VPN users. That just doesn’t accidentally happen. They’re obviously attempting to do it, just waiting to deploy it. The anonymous social network sure does seem like they want you to not be anonymous.
Is that what happened? I occasionally check reddit at work since it’s unfortunately still one of the better places for actual answers to things, and in the last few days I’ve needed to use old.reddit.com to get around getting blocked. VPN block explains a lot.
It’s not confirmed what happened internally, but it was talked about a lot here for a while. Apparently VPN users were unable to access it and Reddit admins said that it was all accidental. It has just happened multiple times. Only for VPN users.
Huh, somehow completely blew past my radar. Thanks for the info!
But it’s not like they would think they could block vpn users and no one would notice and complain. The fact that they fixed it means the nefarious explanation doesn’t pass the sniff test.
My guess is that it’s something like that in the process of trying to stop scraping, their filter was cast too wide and it snagged more VPN users than it meant to.
Yeah happening to mullvad vpn users for sure.
God… I can barely remember the time before the top comment threads of every goddamned post were always lazy strings of circle-jerky jokes that you could predict before even clicking into the thread.
I could barely remember too, then I took an arrow to the knee!
Something something narwhal bacon
I too choose this narwhal’s dead bacon
Wow, epic! I rate this comment 5/7 with rice! You’ve won the internet for today, my friend! I’ll pet my heckin chonky pupperino in your honor! You’re breathtaking!
This is better than that time my arms were broken and my mom took care of me (don’t worry, we’re not from Alabama! LOL 😂)
I understood that reference!!!
Don’t you love it when they’re not even made by humans, but it’s just bots copying the top comment from the last time it got posted
I was hoping when I came over here it would be more like the good old days of reddit. And i think it is, but barely. Plenty of the low quality shit made the jump as well.
Just look at this thread. Sort by top. The top post is circle jerking about people left reddit for here. The next top post is a vomiting emoji. A fucking emoji. I haven’t even been here that long and the comments in this thread were predictable in the same exact way.
I feel like that’s more of the state of how we communicate with eacher. Verbal communication is increasingly low effort and low quality just like any social media platforms I’ve been on. The only exception is hyper niche communities who’s main focus is on the actual INFORMATION. Ultimately, low importance/helpful post are going to have low importance/helpful responses.
This has gotta be the stupidest (and honestly ugliest) alternative to Reddit awards.
Thanks for the crudely gold-colored-brass up vote, kind stranger.
This entire screenshot looks horrible.
Fifty bucks? Are the bits made of gold?
Very MTX-heavy mobile game aesthetic.
It would be great if Lemmy’s devs implemented loosely based (for fair use) copies of these and gave them for free :)
I thought Reddit killed off gold earlier this year?
This is “New Gold”, soon to be replaced with “Gold Classic”
Heh, money buying people’s upvotes. Good grief
Mildly hilarious
Hahahahahahah holy shit holy fucking shit
Never heard of that website
That’ll be $49.99, pal.
Don’t call me pal. But you know what friend? I think it would be hilarious if this image started getting used ironically.
I’m not your friend buddy
These sites look like they were AI generated. “Make the arrow look more golden”
LMAO, imagine paying someone for content and then having a Reddit bot (or human) to copy it here for Lemmy.
Is this the new NFT lol?
