If you are signed in you can access reddit via a VPN. If you’re signed out you get that smug snew image. Its not just reddit either: Instagram, twitter, Facebook, all fuck with you if you arrive via a VPN IP Address. Insta will say there is an error. Twitter redirects you to login. Facebook will just ban your account. Reddit I think will also ban your account if you’re even remotely “bad”.

You gotta make your own VPN by installing a ras-pi in the drop ceiling of a bathroom somewhere with free Wi-Fi, alligator clips on the lights for power.

I’m on Mullvad and this happens with every country available except for the UK servers. I usually just use Libredirect though because redlib still works with VPN.

yeah, thats what switched me from using it occasionally to never.

the odd occasion i go one some craft subreddit and have to turn my fucking vpn off for embroidery resources i radicalize all over again

lol I got banned for lightly harassing a nerd with an Israeli flag profile pic posting on r/cats

Ain’t been back since anyway, I’m doing my part!

The day they went public they also blocked old.reddit.com for VPN users, previously it was accessible that way

I just tested it with PIA (not an endorsement, I bought five years back when it was good and didn’t know about mulvad) and it worked. They might just be blocking specific ones or something.

Did you try a VPN node from a different country? Might just be where you’re at.

WOAH THERE PARDNER

On Mullvad there are a couple VPN servers in America that don’t trigger Reddit’s network policy, and if those get blocked there are a lot of exit points in other countries to try.

And on that day, nothing was lost.