At some point, the mistake was using Reddit to begin with.
It was the only search result relevant to my query.
Does anyone else remember back in the early days of the internet when experts used to say, "The internet routes around problems".
I miss those early days.
To @daggermoon@lemmy.world , I see that a lot with searches now too but I just keep searching or find some other way around the problem. There's no way I click in to Reddit any more. You do you, but I'm saying there's always another option.
Honestly the internet will route around the loss of reddit just like it did with the loss of forums and other crowdsourced platforms that have died off over time. Yeah, we will lose a treasure trove of knowledge, but a lot of it was also outdated and the same questions will be asked again so the knowledge can be rebuilt.
That’s the problem isn’t it? We used to have forums where people discus things and blogs where people share what they’ve learned, now it is all Reddit and discord and absolute trash in between.
We still have forums and blogs. Search engines just don't both including them in search results.
You need to know about these niche communities, which are increasingly in micro-spaces like Discord or Mastodon channels or unmonitored communities like Lemmy.
Which is more in line with Bad Old Web 1.0 than Good Old Web 1.5
Discord is like gated communities on the internet. Not open to the public and not something that is publically indexed.
It isn't even comparable to mastadon or lemmy when it comes to being a source of information.
This is not a Reddit problem. A lot of websites throw a fucking hissy fit if you have a VPN turned on, and I'm also over it.
I can't believe how often I have to say this.
There are a few communities on Reddit that aren’t represented on here. So I still go to Reddit some.
There might be very niche communities but Lemmy has grown so much in the last year. I would encourage you to search for whatever community you are looking for. You might not find the exact equivalent but you might find a good match.
For example, there may be a /r/3dprinteddildos on reddit but that won't exist here. But I am sure that the 3D community here can point you in the right direction.
Keep in mind how subreddit often got created: when the general community doesn't provide enough content for your niche, the niche community is developed.
/r/gonewild is a great example of this. It went from amateur porn to a cestpool of only fans content. Other subreddits were created to continue the way.
It's the same thing here: find a community that's close and post.
Lemmy is nowhere near the wealth of information available on Reddit. And if we're talking about hobbies, then literally no one gives a shit about Lemmy. The whole of the Fediverse has only 50k daily active users, most of them are on Mastodon. Lemmy is just a tiny fraction of those 50k. The main 3D printing sub alone has more active users than the whole Lemmy.
That leads to a situation where knowledgeable people from the industry and hobby leaders don't post anything here. I'm not even sure many of them even heard of it.
So, if you want some help or to learn something, you either go to specialised forums or to Reddit. Lemmy is for memes and throwing feces at each other. Which is fun.
I've stopped casually browsing Reddit but sometimes it's the only way to get somewhat decent search results
I’m trying to convince people to check out Lemmy but it’s hard. People are so stuck in their ways. I’ll keep trying though
I read this as "we don't want you, the user, to interact with our 100% user-content driven website that depends on your presence to keep having value".
It did not used to be this way. Every website result used to be "cached", but not anymore...
Enshittification 😔
Dogshit website anyway.
that's on you for preventing the billion dollar company from tracking your every move ;)
That happens on some VPNs
"shouldn't happen all the time on VPNs
Safety and privacy for companies, but not for users. Just because it is, doesn't mean it has to, or even should be.
It happens all the time with me, I see it as a blessing.
safereddit.com baby!
There's a firefox plugin that can translate to free frontend links and you could do that as well through pihole.
Well, fine with me. Closing one tab is no big deal, let the website die
Me too. I wrote a blog post about it with a similar title and would love some feedback. I'm sure it could be expanded even more to include stuff like this.
I consider this more of a feature than a bug.
I wish there was a way to filter all sites that block me like this, at least my search would actually show results I can read
Sometimes part of the content can be seen in the search result page, as the crawler got the content. But when you click inside, you're blocked by the membership wall. Irony?
Happens to me all the time on a VPN.
It isn't every IP. I just change tunnels.
I was surprised when I found out that reuters.com blocks mullvad vpn.
file a ticket.
You have been permanatley banned from Reddit. if you feel this was a mistake, please use the appeal process
I always get that screen when I forget to turn off my VPN while accessing a reddit quote.
Just putting this out there, if you use startpage you can use the anonymous view feature to get around this :) Obviously avoiding reddit is better but if it's the only available resource...
At least they told you you're blocked, instead of just making random parts of it not work with zero communication
That is an easy way to make less traffic from people that don't really care. When I see it, I close the page and look for the next result.
If you really need to know what is written there I guess you can Log in or use redlib or something like that.
I just found a Firefox extension that let's you open these blocked pages in archive. Pretty excited to bypass the bs of VPN blocks
File a ticket!
Just use a different vpn server...
Using a VPN to log into reddit can get your account shadowbanned instantly. Just an FYI to those browsing.
What's worse is it's infectious. If you log into your main account on a VPN, get shadowbanned and change accounts without clearing your history, changing IP and deleting all your cookies, your next account will also get immediately shadowbanned.
If you argue about politics, shadowban. If you make too many reports, shadowban. If you do anything on reddit that isn't the most milquetoast, bot-like comments on media and celebrities, you will likely get banned or shadowbanned.
The place is overrun with very convincing AI bots that even go as far as criticizing reddit to look convincing, but a large portion of users aren't even real anymore, maybe as high as half in some communities by my reckoning.
They don't want human users anymore. They announced a few years ago they were using reddit as a "test bed" for new AI models, they want a site that millions of people visit every day that looks like a social media site where users can communicate, but they want to be able to control what everyone is saying and discussing with a control panel to influence public sentiment with ease, and it's already working to fantastic effect.
Edit: most normal, commercial internet users can reset their dynamic IP address simply by unplugging your router for a minute. Also, if you try to register a reddit account with a "throwaway" email, or even many major domains like yahoo or msn, it can start you out shadowbanned permanently. They are looking for any excuse to silence users so their bots can control the popular narrative.
In my experience the bans have been very explicit, strangely designed to humiliate. Otherwise the same.
My "threatening violence" comment was "Elon Musk's fumes are fatally toxic". Permabanned from 4 subreddits and 3 day site wide, just that exact string.
Amazingly it appears like a pro left wing website. That is some wonderful camouflage.
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