Reddit is picking a fight with the internet…

Done. Sorry got distracted with my dog trying to eat my Joycon.

I think I figure out my issue. I’m running pfBlockerNG on my firewall and it looks like the lemmy.world server IP ended up in the CINS_army_v4 list and was getting blocked in my network.

Apparently, a heck of a lost of drama involving this.

Link to reddit for those who wants to give traffic to reddit - https://old.reddit.com/r/wholesome/comments/148aw58/radviceanimals_just_had_the_top_mods_permissions/

This is so fucked up.

Shitty toilet paper buddy!

Hah! Some one will need to read this in Morgan Freeman voice for extra entertainment!

Yeah - it looks like it was the pfBlockerNg on the firewall. The lemmy.world IP is on a couple of blacklist it seems.

I'm curious about the what is happening... but I feel bad every time I click into reddit.

Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable - Steve Huffman, Reddit CEO

Translation - we don't have control of the 3PA and they are getting in the way of moooore profit, so we want them gone.

Hopefully you don't have any rogue mods. Apprently r/adviceanimals got the head mod replced by someone that seems to be more inline with the admins-reddit. (u/legweed -> u/CedarWolf)

Tried that already. The page partially load as shown in the screenshot, most of the time the connection gets outright refused.

Most of the 3PA devs has already said, they are not against paying for API usage, as long as it’s a reasonable price. The pricing Reddit wants is definitely to kill 3PA.

That's the only logical conclusion. Wouldn't really make sense otherwise.

I think the plan is to build a new affordable housing on the same spot. The former building was slowly sinking into the ground and needed a lot of work from what I hear.

Instead of working with the 3PA devs to come up with something that is a win-win for both parties, they’ve chosen self-destruct.

It almost sounds like an excuse for Reddit to “revert” the site back and restore the site to pre-blackout state…

Going through an app also prevents the awful redirects.