I love how search engines display inaccessible links.
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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.
This is the reason I never had a twitter account. Why would I bother making an account if I don’t know why I would want one in the first place?
When that happens I use the summarize with AI feature from Kagi and it does a good job describing the page.
When google started to index paywalled things… I thought that was pretty evil. Showing google content but not normal internet users. Giving sites the ability to have their cake and eat it too.
When reddit decided to force logging in to see some subreddits on mobile, I decided they were evil.
This is why I’m on Lemmy posting content, we have to use open platforms if we want them to succeed. This is the first time I’ve used social media. I’m doing it as a civic duty
When google started to index paywalled things…
Google has (had?) a rule. If a site lets them index their paywalled content, then the site must deliver the full content if the referrer is google.com or else they will de-index the site. So when clicking a link on google, the full article should appear. It was an old trick to just google the article title to find a link and click through to read a paywalled article.
Is that policy gone now?
as far as i can tell that policy never existed. The first instance of this was for academic articles being indexed behind a paywall, and they NEVER worked with the referrer being google.
It kind of existed when Google included a link to every site’s cached content, but they removed that years ago.
It’s been that long?
That’s depressing for a few reasons
I am surprised I didn’t even notice that, I used to use it for when sites changed or were down. I guess there’s always internet archive sites if I were so inclined, but still sad.
I get this too from time to time and usually refreshing my VPN fixes it. This is a bug of somekind.
I get the same screen anytime I use any VPN server.
STOP GOING TO REDDIT!!!
I can’t believe how often I have to say this.
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
People are still on X even after their owner gave a Nazi salute on national television.
It blows my mind everyday
Lemmy is not grown yet,so yeah i’m forced to use reddit.
It’s an addiction, it’s hard to break.
It is… i have lots of shows i watch with communities im an engaged with… and thats not really here yet… but bluesky has helped me get off reddit more… i actually like the platform and lemmy
It is. What helped me was deleting my account and removing my patched boost app. Now I only browse it through mobile Firefox with ublock.
It’s annoying as shit to use, so I don’t use it often. But when I do they get nothing from me. Win-win.
I’m weaning myself off it. Sadly there’s some communities that I’m active in on Reddit that either don’t exist on a federated platform or are so tiny that they’re functionally dead. Hopefully we can grow those communities though - if we want to preserve the internet and our democracies into the future, the cancer that is big tech needs viable alternatives.
I’ve stopped casually browsing Reddit but sometimes it’s the only way to get somewhat decent search results
The sad part is I still have a lot of random subs I enjoy, fringe stuff like r/OnionLovers and r/slowcooking, r/frugal… and subs like r/frugal immediately delete any comment that brings up politics in any way, so there are a few decent subs left with non-batshit insane mods but they are becoming exceedingly rare.
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.
There is nothing coming close to /r/steroids on Lemmy. The reason that subreddit is so great is that the moderators there are very quick at deleting noob questions that are answered in the wiki, and will quickly call out anyone giving dangerous advice.
Even on reddit the competing subreddits like /r/PEDs and /r/testosterone are absolute garbage that probably got dozens of people killed from a heart attack or stroke at this point
https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit-instances/blob/master/instances.md < for me it works if I search the post link on one of these
File a ticket!
Dogshit website anyway.
I love how every website leans on JavaScript as a crutch.
Wait. No I don’t.
Just use a different vpn server…
For what it’s worth I use PIA and have never been shadowbanned or banned using any endpoint in any country on new accounts there. I use throwaway non-gmail email accounts to segment each account so they can’t track between them, all on different VPN endpoints per account. It’s sad that this is what it takes to prevent them from stalking me.
None of Mullvad’s have ever worked for Reddit for me in years.
Fucking vpn blocking cowards.
Ireland works fine here. Dunno about the shadowban, I still get answers on the occasional thread I create whenever I can’t get an answer on Lemmy. Still, fuck u/spez.
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.
Amazingly it appears like a pro left wing website. That is some wonderful camouflage.
This should be making everyone with half a brain freak out right now, even though I know nobody is going to pay attention until it’s too late.
But that website, reddit, is probably the last remaining public spaces that reflects the actual attitudes of the majority of people. (Boring lib shit, but hey better than than facebook or twitter.) So when we’re learning that this site is being hijacked by bots and corporations trying to subtly take over and replace the users so they can “adjust” the nature of popular sentiment, it’s a giant blaring air-horn of alarm that we’re about to see a massive manufactured-consent engine come to life.
People as individuals are amazing creatures, as individuals you can talk to people and make them learn and get them curious.
As a population? As a group? Worthless troglodytes, unevolved pond-scum, slime, oozing shit that seeks the lowest level. This is why we need to have a lot of concern over platforms that purportedly depict average people having average conversations, because as a population, people look to their peers for cues and when everyone is taking cues from a single, artificial entity made to look like millions of real people, we need to start pouring water on some servers somewhere.
“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals.”
Yep got banned for saying a politician had to be taken care of. Sure an undertone of violence. But others say they want to do plastic surgery by running over someone’s head and nothing happens. I don’t get how they enforce rules or does it just depend on which side of the political spectrum.
If it’s against our Presidents Musk or Trump, ban. Anyone else is less scrutinized. Pro Luigi: Ban. Pro Jan 6? Probably no ban, idk.
I posted stuff about politics and my account suddenly couldn’t comment. Weird error messages, no actual communication from Reddit about what or why or how long. Decisions about functionality are being made in meetings by people who are absolutely not interested in the users as anything but things whose only value is whether they can be monetized.
I experimented a few times with throwaway accounts and yeah, they’re locking or shadowbanning people just for engaging with politics or social issues. They don’t want humans influencing these topics, they want people to read what the bots are saying without distraction.
Not saying literally everyone there is a bot, but they’re slowly doing a bot-creep.
They sent me a warning of being flagged and monitored because I upvoted a comment about Luigi. That’s how cooked reddit is now. Seriously, only upvoting “rule violating comments”, not even commenting myself. Just a button click is all it takes, and they won’t tell you which comment or post you upvoted that flagged it so it’s like walking through a mine field.
This is the exact arc of enshittification that Cory Doctorow described. Reddit used to be great up to a few years ago, but it’s clear that the board is in full-on vampire mode, and they’re going to bleed it dry until it’s time to parachute.
bUt ThErE’s CuTe AlIeNs EvErYwHeRe ^ __________ ^
Just for a tack on to this everybody needs to be aware of contentcyborg.ai
Nothing digital is real. Digital reality is a distraction. They burned the libraries.
This is just one of the commercial products too, the companies that have their own in-house tech development departments have their own proprietary systems for just creating an entire realm of content at the touch of a button.
Want to reveal some new development to a story that didn’t exist before today? Use your content bots to manufacture a bunch of blogs and journalist tweets and news websites that look exactly like they were made 10 years ago, with links that go to supporting sources. (which you also manufactured with a few keystrokes.)
The internet isn’t just dead, it’s a shambling corpse raised to feed off the living, animated by its undead lich overlords.
The internet is a opium drip now nothing more
Which makes it incredibly dangerous. Opium has destroyed empires.
Observing reddit from a distance (anon accounts, anon email address, anon VPN) it’s very clear that it’s like watching the Titanic sink or the fall of Rome at this point. It’s become a complete cesspool over the last ~5 years but progressively worse at an increasing rate each year.
safereddit.com baby!
There’s a firefox plugin that can translate to free frontend links and you could do that as well through pihole.
Can’t believe I forgot about this. Lurking is so much better from there.
What’s the Firefox plugin?
My bad: https://libredirect.github.io/
What does the search engine have to do with your reddit account/vpn?
they’re showing the links, but you can’t access them.
It is the fault of the site being dicks, but the search engines make the problem more annoying
Did you call the search engine and tell them you were banned from that one site?
Look, dick, you asked a question, I explained it.
I’m not the guy that made the post, but that’s the reason it was mildly infuriating. You don’t have to like the reason, you don’t have to think it’s a good reason, but there’s no good reason for you to be a dick to someone answering your question.
So, you know, fuck off
Take a breather
How’s the search engine supposed to know you’re blocked from Reddit?
Good point, Reddit is the real problem.
“THE MACHINE KNOWS”
I consider this more of a feature than a bug.
I was surprised when I found out that reuters.com blocks mullvad vpn.
They likely just use a block list.
If a not was using the vpn server you connected to then it ends up on the list for a few days.
Just switch servers once or twice, usually works for me.
I use archive.is if I really need to read one of their articles. My point is, it is strange that they block read-only access like that.
Interesting that a news site would block a VPN.
Bots use VPNs a lot for scrapping and other activities.
Interesting that you consider reddit a news site.
I think they mean Reuters.
I loosely consider Reuters a news site. At least partly a comic book.
Their loss
Happens to me all the time on a VPN.
It isn’t every IP. I just change tunnels.
