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.

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    23 days 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.

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    23 days 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.

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    23 days ago

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

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      23 days 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.

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      23 days ago

      Reddit has objectively accumulated a larger amount of porn useful information than Lemmy.

      Often times, it is only there you can find it. Still, it is best to participate on Lemmy and share your findings, so you could find them here as well.

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    23 days ago

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