Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections.

Oh no.

Anyway.

That site died with Aaron Swartz. What remains is a sad, disheveled, dead husk of what was.

Tbh it could have "died" if Aaron Schwartz was still around. Wasnt he a "free speach absolutist"? So the site could swarm even more with fascists if he was still here.
- Could have, we'll never know.

UserAgents while odd do give the webserver some knowledge of the client capabilities. Try setting your UserAgent to ie6 and see how much of the internet breaks.

Most sites will do live inspection of browser capabilities rather than using the user agent to grok capabilities, simply because user agent is hardly reliable.
- This is correct, however this isn't the right usage for grok.
The user agent language is because reddit requires bots to have a custom user agent identifying the bot when using the API. I don't think it's about browser capabilities. This is the screen they give to unknown bots, they must have adjusted rules to count any IPs registered to a cloud/hoster or VPN as a bot by default out of paranoia of third party apps and scrapers.

Only new reddit weirdly enough. If you have redirect script to old.reddit it works fine.

There’s a cesspit I don’t miss in the slightest.

i miss the content on there, and decades worth of answered questions, as well as how polished it was compared to lemmy

but I don’t see myself going back there either
- I can understand your viewpoint, I did have 12 years there.
  
  I remember very well when Pao was CEO, and the bigass infographic of the exodus from Digg. The fall of FPH and jailbait. Unidan. I even created a Voat account, and promptly regretted it.
  
  I’m sometimes shocked by how immediately and thoroughly I turned my back on the history of Reddit, but I’m as temporarily at home in lemmy as I was in Reddit.
  
  Lemmy, as all things, will fall. Entropy always wins.

We already know that the site is shit.

I was able to access it without logging in on a VPN

Me too. Both the RedReader app and mobile Firefox (old.reddit.com) worked for me. Using Mullvad VPN.

Reddit now blocks VPN connections unless signed in.

Now my brain hurts less. Annnnd oh well, on with my day.

Kddit and Eddrit still work, though I don't want too many people to know about them, or else Reddit would probably block them.

There's also Remini, over in Geminispace.

This makes @[email protected] sad

I had this yesterday while connected to AdGuard's London server, but somehow it worked fine on their Manchester server.

Despite what the Lemmy zealots say, it's not a shit site. It's a site run by shit people who want to monetize you as much as possible with tracking data. Other than that, the content on Reddit is far superior to Lemmy.