They are slowly killing public access.
They don't want you using reddit unless you are using with an account tied to real ID.
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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They want to pump up the number of new accounts and/or monthly active accounts by any means necessary now that the stock price depends on it.
you know the drill folks: deny the parasite engagement, seed fedi with discussion.
corpo parasite took the shit poster for granted for too long.
I gotta admit I just discovered Reddit few weeks ago that I spend a bit more time there. Before it was only from Google results when needed.
I don’t know how it was before, but it feels pretty decent now. I don’t have a comparison.
Will be hard to leave Reddit now haha 🙄
Think about this:
Literally all the value of Reddit comes from the users, and most of the moderation comes from volunteers.
That is, everything that made Reddit useful was provided for free.
Now those jackanapes think they're entitled to create money based on the free labor of millions of people. And what makes that more infuriating is they had the gall to call those volunteers "landed gentry".
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it was way better before, especially they dint force the New UI, you can still use the OLD.reddit feature, which makes it easier to navigate the site. the infinite scroll feature that most social media has now, is not good at all, its also gets very buggy and laggy(if your using it on mobile browser). Also there have been significant ban/purges in the last few months and many accounts were banned. alot of innocent users have been caught in the crossfire, additionally, in my opinion its pretty hostile to new users too, because subreddits have UPPed thier anti-ban evasion ,spam filter, even to the point it harms new users.
remember this comment when you figure out why reddit is fucked haha
prolly under 3 months if you are going to engage on there.
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I have a feeling they want to be like Facebook, with the aggressive personal info you have to give in order to login, they can lock the content behind the login feature like fb does
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I created a Reddit account a few days ago (for testing purposes) using MullvadVPN and after many captachas I managed to finalize but the account is shadowbanned. I can access the subreddits but my comments don't show up for anyone
By the way, fuck Reddit!!!
they automatically shadowban vpn users, i was on another forum that they already had been banning vpn accounts(instant ban) for a while they all switched to using proxies, anti-detection browsers, ISP changes to evade the bans. anyone who have been using it recently will get shadowbanned instantly or eventually, hence the use of different proxies instead. even that is not fool-proof , and people are actually paying to do this(for thier OF accounts)
a way to check if your acc is shadowbanned is logout and incognito and try to look up your user profile(or any other redditors profile, if says missing or suspended, you know), it also can tell if a user has deactivated thier acc.
additionally reddit is currently going through a large purge of accounts as of recently, someone mentioned in another forum that there have been an unusual amount of account bans recently(like 3 in the last 3 months). i lost a couple of accs as a normal users, one of my acc got temp suspeneded, suddenly all my other accounts were immediately permabanned.(apparently some mods are extremely anal about reporting other people). theres other instances of other peoples acc were banned for no reason at all, appealing just gets a rejection notice(reddit admins arnt even bothering to look at it, they know)
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Spez (Steve Huffman) moderated a subreddit called /r/jailbait and now he's adding paywalls to the site. He's a pedophile with an addiction to greed.
in fairness to spaz, even though he doesn't deserve it, that was at a time where you didn't need to approve being added to a sub's mod team. I believe he tried deleting himself from there, but they kept adding him, which prompted them to implement the approval system. I could be wrong, I don't know.
I saw spez at the mall one time when I was Christmas early shopping. I recognized him, but I'm not gonna treat a CEO like a celebrity, so I just mind my own business. a while later, I was waiting to get a ticket for the AMC there, Steve Huffman goes up to a kid who is holding popcorn and starts to eat some out of the bucket. The mom tells him to stop and pulls the kid back, but spez just smacks the popcorn out of the kids hands and screams at the mom in the face really loudly (not actual words, literally a scream). popcorn everywhere. the kid is now crying and the mom is at a loss of words and looks so stressed to be in that situation and is about to cry too. At this point, I need to do something. I go up to the situation and tell spez to back off immediately. as a response, he tries to kick me in the balls (missed and tripped a bit), then makes cringry hissing noises.
As much as I dislike the guy, I don't need fake stories for reasons to hate him. Thank goodness this sounds 100% on-brand for that absolute spaz, no proof needed!
Oh man, I forgot about that. Thanks for reminding me of another reason I hate that guy.
In dark times of desperation, seeking help on the internet, I sometimes find myself tempted by the Reddit thread in the top of my search results.
But I know that if I click it, the only thing that will happen is the familiar cross-armed Snoo popping up and telling me, "You've been blocked by network security."
It's like a reality check for me: I don't want to use Reddit, and Reddit doesn't want me using it. So I'm going to need to either get better at searching for solutions, or try to solve problems in my own way.
In the end, introducing more barriers to entry has simply reinforced my decision not to go to Reddit. Their blocking of VPNs has conditioned me to ignore Reddit links in search results entirely, mentally filtering them out the same way I do with ads/sponsored content.
Nice work, Spez.
BONUS: I just came across a Google support page where someone asks, "How do I Block Reddit and Quora results from all searches permanently". The top answer is hilarious and sad.
This, and the response that demands you use the app to see the content, or of it’s marked NSFW for any reason, you cannot view it unless you login.
Really irritating to use reddit anymore.
Can't you ban the entire domain from the network at the router level? I think it would be very fitting to block them on your network in retaliation to them blocking you on theirs.
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I can say got suspended for using VPN, they say there's an issue with the security of my account & promoted me to change the password. I never posted any comments only did upvote & downvote. Still got suspended for no reason!!
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I was using a VPN to access F*eddit, after 1 or 2 days i got a permanent red bar on top saying that my account was banned, needless to say reddit is no more my preferred media provider.
This also happened to me, i wondered why i got banned
You know you can use an extension that will redirect you to old.reddit.com which doesn't need an account? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/
No, that doesn't always work. They still block that sometimes.
Which VPN are you using? In most cases it works for me depending on the country I choose.
Got to keep rotating them servers, it is an endless wack a mole game.
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Admittedly, I only use exit nodes in my state, but they do block Mullvad and Air.
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Been getting that for months.
Work uses a VPN. So if there's a useful answer to a work question on some technical reddit, I don't see it. Way to remain a relevant resource for anything but fandom BS.
The ones they know about.
I know I'm a data point of one but this seems sporadically applied. Sometimes it works on a vpn without logging in. Sometimes it doesnt.
Some mullvad server aren't blocked.
Some Proton aren't either.
What is becoming increasing difficult is Youtube. finding a patched client and the right VPN server is no easy task.
As VPN usage becomes more mainstream I believe "premium" offers will start to appear, offering servers with fewer people, regularly renewed IPs, things like that, for a higher price.
I sometimes have to switch servers to comment on Lemmy
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I was about to say, old reddit in browser works fine, but I use Mullvad, so I never noticed. I'm increasingly spending more time here too.
If you want to use reddit, just find a redlib instance.
For accessing past threads I use LibRedirect and cycle between instances
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I use it with NordVPN all the time
Have you tried just using Lemmy instead?
What do you think I’m doing? My account doesn’t have thousands of lemmy submissions by accident!
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It's changed a few times. It's been blocked without login, then later, to a bunch of random interrupts and resets.
People have strange ideas about netsec, like lemmy.
i use it with proton vpn every day because my country's incompetent slop government blocks access to it otherwise
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It's been that way for years.
they are probably banning datacenter ip addresses to prevent AI companies from skraping. They want to sell the data for money 🤷♂️
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It seems to depend. If I have my location set to within the US, I can usually access the top level post without a problem, but I can't see any comments. If I set location to Europe---usually Switzerland, since they have good privacy laws--then I can't access the site at all. If I set it to old.reddit.com with location set to the US, I can see comments, except for anything that's been labelled as NSFW; those require me to log in.
Here I am thinking I was a controversial asshole.. nope, just a security nerd. I wonder if NordVPN's new nordwhisper protocol will circumvent some of this?
I've also wondered if they've collected hardware hashes of the actual computer beyond IPv4. Never heard of CaptchaV3.. I'll have to read up on that.
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