I love how search engines display inaccessible links.

  • @DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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    09 months ago

    file a ticket.

    You have been permanatley banned from Reddit. if you feel this was a mistake, please use the appeal process

    • @nodiratime@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, I questioned the second and third temp bans they gave me. After the last (so, the third) they banned me. I suspect it’s because I was asking.

      Their reasons of course were bullshit, for every single ban (which they confirmed were correctly issued… Morons).

    • @apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      "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.

      • @dan@upvote.au
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        09 months ago

        The issue with a VPN is that it’s likely that other people using the same exit node are doing something malicious. A site like reddit or a bank or whatever sees a lot of attacks coming from one IP (or a range of IPs) and mark it as malicious.

        You’d likely do the same thing with your own site - something like Denyhosts or Crowdsec that blocks people trying to brute force a password will end up blocking anyone else using that same VPN exit IP.

        • @socialmedia@lemmy.world
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          09 months ago

          Nobody is doing anything malicious. This didn’t start happening until reddit went public and decided to block their API.

          What’s probably happening is they’re worried too many requests are coming from one ip address and you might be scraping their precious data to train your LLM.

          If there was any justice their stock would be sliding further into the toilet because the first time anyone saw that notice they just quit going to the site entirely.

          • @dan@upvote.au
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            09 months ago

            Nobody is doing anything malicious.

            How do you know that though? VPNs are very commonly used to send spam, perform ransomware attacks, DDoS attacks, etc.

            What’s probably happening is they’re worried too many requests are coming from one ip address and you might be scraping their precious data to train your LLM.

            This is definitely also a possibility.

    • southsamurai
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      09 months ago

      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

        • southsamurai
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          09 months ago

          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

  • Cid Vicious
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    09 months ago

    Kinda like when google news shows links to paywalled articles.

  • circuitfarmer
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    09 months ago

    Happens to me all the time on a VPN.

    It isn’t every IP. I just change tunnels.

    • @quack@lemmy.zip
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      09 months ago

      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.

    • @silverlose@lemm.ee
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      09 months ago

      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

    • @tehn00bi@lemmy.world
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      09 months ago

      There are a few communities on Reddit that aren’t represented on here. So I still go to Reddit some.

      • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]
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        09 months ago

        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.

    • @Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee
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      09 months ago

      I’ve stopped casually browsing Reddit but sometimes it’s the only way to get somewhat decent search results

      • @VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world
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        09 months ago

        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.

    • @TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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.