Hey Reddit, how's it going? Reddit:
Lol nothing says we are afraid of the working class like banning subreddits on suppressed news they don’t want us to see. I came here bc I got a warning on my account for liking a comment that said “Luigi”. My alt account got banned for sharing the DOGE email list that is public info. Fuck Reddit. I’m done.
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I was still using it for researching stuff (mostly via the Kagi forum search) - but it’s the only website that does not work with MullvadVPN on. Getting tired of having to deactivate it. By now Mastodon and Lemmy easily satisfy my needs for tech news/discussions.
The only thing Lemmy doesn't have that Reddit does is an enormous collection of discussions about technical solutions. I can not think of another way to look for answers to tech questions that doesn't send me straight to SEO crap trying to sell me a solution. No I don't want to pay for a subscription to your crappy software to make cron jobs that I'll just have to debug anyway. I want to learn what flag I put in wrong so it'll work in the first place.
If it's not working with your VPN, try switching to the old.reddit.com subdomain. They randomly block me sometimes using ProtonVPN, but every time I use the old site, it works fine for some reason. This also prevents Reddit blocking any browser that blocks cookies.
I also have a bookmarklet you can put in your bookmarks bar to automatically convert normal reddit links into old.reddit.com ones, should this work in your case.
javascript:(function() { var currentUrl = window.location.href; var newUrl = currentUrl.replace(/^https:\/\/www\.reddit\.com/, 'https://old.reddit.com/'); window.location.href = newUrl; })();
You can also try either a 3rd-party or locally-hosted instance of libreddit, and replace the https://old.reddit.com/ link in the bookmarklet with the URL (and if self-hosted, port) of the libreddit instance you want to use.
The instance wouldn't be protected by your VPN, (if self-hosting, would need to be split-tunneled or on a different device like a Raspberry Pi not connected through your VPN) but it's easier than constantly disabling and re-enabling your VPN for your whole device.
There is also a great Chrome & Firefox extension to automatically redirect: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/old-reddit-redirect/dneaehbmnbhcippjikoajpoabadpodje
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/
Reddit has made vpn very difficult to use since 2024, some vpn may get through, but its not worth it.