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.
Yeah happening to mullvad vpn users for sure.
Lmao they removed their somewhat unique award system with charm and replaced it with colored arrows
Fifty bucks? Are the bits made of gold?
Are reddit paying contributors, moderators or people creating posts¿? If no then how are they claiming that buying a golden upvote supports contributors
Mildly hilarious
r/todayilearned
Well, today you learned that this is the current state of Reddit.
This has gotta be the stupidest (and honestly ugliest) alternative to Reddit awards.
Thanks for the crudely gold-colored-brass up vote, kind stranger.
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!
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
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
I thought Reddit killed off gold earlier this year?
This is “New Gold”, soon to be replaced with “Gold Classic”
If you use the official app that’s on you.
There’s no other apps anymore. Which of course is the whole point.
