First time I’ve seen this sitting behind my shitty VPN. If the frontpage /r/normaldayinrussia posts didn’t make you raise an eyebrow knowing their denying access to people for running a VPN should at least make you second guess.
Get out now, save yourself.
They match your VPN IP to a list of known VPN IP ranges and block it based on that. Theoretically if you connected through, say, a university network via VPN it probably wouldn’t.
While I’m 100% here for the shitting on reddit, I think it’s probably also an attempt to manage the karmafarming bots and onlyfan bots and . . . y’know, all the other bots. Because if you’ve re-worked the fake internet point system to be remunerated for actual cash you can’t afford to pay bots. So - money is why. Also making bad corporate decisions is very on-brand.
Also, fwiw, Tumblr’s kind of neat. A mix of the “reddit” and “tweet” thing with some interesting posts. They’re corporate but havent’ screwed it up so horribly yet that everyone fled in horror.
Apollo came hard for this last paragraph lol