My friend sent me this, the current state of Reddit. (I left during the app issue and haven’t looked back)

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOP
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    11 months ago

    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.

    • EatATaco@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      But it’s not like they would think they could block vpn users and no one would notice and complain. The fact that they fixed it means the nefarious explanation doesn’t pass the sniff test.

      My guess is that it’s something like that in the process of trying to stop scraping, their filter was cast too wide and it snagged more VPN users than it meant to.