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.
I stopped using Reddit 7 months ago & haven’t missed it a bit.
Same, it’s crazy how easy it was to replace. I honestly am surprised it was that easy. Figured it would of been harder. I went back once, for a small community that isn’t here. I made one post to ask a question about something and saw all the bullshit that Reddit is doing now. I deleted my account immediately after creating that post and was done. I was on Reddit since 2011. It’s dead and gone.
Yup. I had several million karma spread across my various accounts. Nuked all of them, created a single throwaway, and only use that for browsing when random tech issues inevitably point me towards an 8 month old Reddit post.
I don’t miss Reddit. If anything, I have more free time these days. AlienBlue/Apollo used to take up a significant portion of my day.
Was just looking for video game tribal knowledge. While reddit still has some its getting more and more space there.
It’s so funny if they only knew that gamers are big part of their market and contrary to popular belief not all of them are NAZIs.
Helpful gamers with indepth knowledge tend not to be.
Doesn’t apply to old.reddit.com ironically.
But they forcefully redirect images to www.redit.com now, and you need to manually wget images if you want the biggest version, logged-in, VPN, or not.
The enshittification will continue until morale improves.
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.
Their IPO was postponed due to the fallout from their PR and community failure. Splez is surely disappointed that this delayed his dream of living on an island with slaves.
I assume it’s the only one he cares about?
Ofc we here tend to feel differently.
I assume he mainly cares about posturing the company to look as healthy as possible for an IPO… Which ad revenue would be a part of, but far from the whole picture.
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.
