I just wanted to peek at the front page. I guess they don’t want people to use their shit anymore. I’m starting to believe in the dead internet theory.

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    Every time I see that stupid little alien, I change my mind about visiting. I see Spez’s smug grin on that stupid little goo blob avatar and it just makes me want to find my info anywhere else.

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    Tech companies are now the hot new thing for MBAs to put into their resumes. That’s why you see this enshittification. Used to be the money people didn’t want to work in tech because it made them feel dumb. That was what made the industry work. Those times are over.

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      MBA’s do not get enough shit for being a root cause of the deterioration for modern life.

      It really is a bullshit career. Companies should be run by people who came up in the industry and learned all the pitfalls rather than college kids who learned how to not pay contracts until they’re legally forced to.

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      Used to be the money people didn’t want to work in tech because it made them feel dumb.

      No one has ever spent more than five minutes speaking to a tech worker and felt dumb afterwards.

      That was what made the industry work.

      Yeah, tech companies had such a high success rate from 1990-2010.

      Solid points, my dude.

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        I don’t imagine the tens of thousands of shitty tech startups by people who don’t know anything about tech which are popping up and exploding (in the bad way) are doing so well for the “success rate” now.

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    Changing the url to sh.reddit.com lets you get around it. Been using that when I’ve needed to look up a reddit thread at work.

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    The only times I’ve seen that is if I’m trying to browse while on a VPN(mullvad in my case). And more often than not it’s because it came up in a search.

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    While I do agree that this is bad, I’m a little confused—what does this have to do with dead internet theory? Doesn’t that relate to users being bots?

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      That no one really uses reddit, that it’s dominated by bots masquerading as real people.

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    My recent permaban from r/worldnews for stating the obvious (is “Iran attacks Israel” still the right title for a stickied thread on the events in Gaza?) has had the positive effect of making me renew with Lemmy.

    r/worldnews is a cesspool of hasbara fanboys, but their unilateral view on the conflict starts to draw away people from their toxic propaganda.

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      Don’t even waste your time in that echo chamber, it’s almost as bad as r/politics. They did you a favor by banning you.

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      This just happens if you’re using a VPN… notice how it says “login to your Reddit account”?

      Switching to a good VPN server, or turning off the VPN will let you browse Reddit again.

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    Is anyone aware that you have to change this? It bases it off your IP as soon as you make an account you have to change that in your settings to turn that off. Not sure if this helps at all but I just don’t understand

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      Ah, I remember this crap. It’ll show you content based on location. I’m almost certain that it’s unrelated to the block.