Why YSK: If you use a VPN, (which you likely have at some point) you have probably encountered this:

really annoying! Today I had enough and googled a way around it.

Here’s the instance that i used today as an example:
https://redlib.ducks.party/

github repo for more information & other instances:
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

It’s not possible to interact with any of the information like replying or upvoting, but for simply getting a niche question answered it’s pretty helpful.

Not fully related, but I would only recommend it for information that isn’t on lemmy, it’s best to try to move content over to here if possible.
I kinda want to make some communities for stuff I have to use reddit for, but I mainly use Voyager (mobile) which doesn’t have all the options to operate a server and I wouldn’t want to get in trouble if I fail to moderate it properly or something. Also I have no experience.

  • ccbrown@programming.dev
    14·
    2 months ago

    The kicker that made me leave Reddit is my 11 year old account got abruptly locked and then suspended for “technical irregularities” (using a VPN). It’s disappointing how anti-privacy it’s become.

    Let’s bring the content over here so people don’t have to use it at all.

    • tyrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      I don’t lurk there but there are years and years of questions and answers that are frequently relevant to what I’m trying to figure out

    • kobra@lemm.ee
      3·
      2 months ago

      I started a RDR2 play through a while back and I was shocked at how much content I was finding in Reddit comments for the random stuff I was looking up.

      For certain niches over the past decade, it really is a treasure trove 😔

    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      2 months ago

      I use r/arabs and r/latin, which barely has an equivalent on lemmy at all.

      And there are subreddits for niche games/software/hobbies, which also do not exist on lemmy.

  • slurp@programming.dev
    9·
    2 months ago

    LibRedirect Firefox addon is good to automatically redirect various websites, the main one I use it fkr being reddit. Redlib etc servers aren’t reliable, but it’ll ping the different ones and find which is working well.

  • edric@lemm.ee
    5·
    2 months ago

    And for IOS, rdx is a great hard client for just browsing/lurking.

  • Opinionhaver@feddit.ukEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    I’ve gotten this only a handful of times and simply refreshing my VPN has solved it every time.

    • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      8·
      2 months ago

      Yeah yeah, we get it. It’s the reason 90% of users are here.

      It is still a fact though that there is a lot of knowledge and answered questions on reddit, that is not available somewhere else. Then stuff like this can help access these without you having to make an account.