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Yup, the instances spoof using a non-logged-in reddit android app and as such don't get (easily?) blacklisted.
Reddit is such a cesspool they should just -j DROP 0.0.0.0/0 and make the world a better place.
Try to find random information on random shit anywhere else on the interwebs without login or any random hidden chat room. It's shit, but it's good that it exists (other than other social media). I guess r/seedboxes doesn't like PulsedMedia?
It mostly displaced small, wholesome, independent forums.
Now they are this gigantic centralized platform which feels righteous in policing discourse. These blocks are ultimately because they feel that they own their user's content and want to further profit from it via their paid API.
Yes. As said, it's shit. For example, if you compare r/hosting with the lowends of the talk, well, you can see quite the quality difference. It's just that those forums are getting hardly indexed and people are often too lazy to create multiple accounts. For example, imagine Jeff would have to create an account and both namethatporn.com and idk, burgerforum.net, but instead he can just post to the respective r/ forums (and flex with his karma).
Edit: also, lmao https://reddit.com/r/Hosting/comments/1bo3xfs/hosting_a_teen_party_for_the_first_time_help/
Yup, OAuth or federation should've solved that but somehow they didn't.
I guess regular people will always be drawn to central platforms because of their uniformity and economies of scale that make everything seem to run more smoothly.
That's an interesting finding...recently I found one of my VPSes got blocked by reddit as well, for no reason...
Yeah, it should have, and it would have been great. I just don't understand the people not understanding it. It isn't just the "TikTok™ Generation" but also normal, "intelligent" people. Especially for mastodon, which was so easy to use. Lemmy on the other hand, okay, that is a little bit special. But still, there's stuff like kbin which is at least ten times better.
If that's true then they're blocking entire subnets, not just the exact IP addresses that "scrape" them...
Yeah, that's true...
Just set your user-agent to TelegramBot... It works for now...
I actually find that UI even worse than the original new UI... And that's the same for other alternative frontends too, such as Invidious...
Invidious at least provides an API, so I could actually implement my own classic frontend. I'll probably have to do something like that for Redlib too... 
this is the correct answer
You must have had a different opinion about something than most people in a subreddit
My hosthatch LA IP got blocked too
Probably not woke enough.
They go much further than that, because they have that userbase, they feel like they have to impact "social change", and openly are taking bribes from 3rd parties to influence to certain direction. That's actually how the "moderators" get paid, by taking bribes. Not by Reddit. There are multitude of short documentaries about this.
There are even documentaries about sock puppets, shills etc. and how they do it, exactly how they do it, and it's all "sanctioned" by reddit, could be blocked but they don't do anything about it. Those guys actually make living off manipulating reddit too.
Wokeism began at Reddit. Yes, they are that bad, and once you learn who the reddit moderators are, you understand why.
Some random short documentary;
I recall seeing many of similar from popular youtubers.
@shruub is correct, we've been on the receiving end of that. Let's just say that "every conspiracy theory" we had, were proven to be true later on. Things such as everything Pulsed Media related went to moderation queue, and only the negative posts were allowed, and positive posts were removed. The odd controlled opposition was let through of course, and those were immediately spammed with negative, especially if we posted that. I once measured that it was something like -10 downvotes within 1-2 minutes, can't recall exact numbers. It was always the same thing. If we made a new post and not just a comment, it would be flooded with like 50 downvotes within 30 minutes or so.
People who said anything positive about Pulsed Media were strongly opposed and ousted, ostracized.
It became common place people would use synonyms for Pulsed Media, first obvious ones, but they cracked down on those too, to the point people started using things like "that certain provider in Finland" level of ways.
We eventually got complete ban on the r/seedboxes sub, after years of being shadow banned. There wasn't any reason for it.
Interestingly enough, at the exactly same time as we got banned there, that sub started to really die out, public stats showed the popularity of the sub crashed at the same time. Go and Figure. Perhaps something about going against the people's true will?
It's completely dead these days. and the guy who started all those shenanigans? He was always a poser, a impostor of an provider, finally had to call it quits and went bankrupt. (I think that year 4 competitors actually went bankrupt in quick succession)
What i gather, it's still the same cesspool with very little activity. A few providers are promoted there, and everyone else is shunned away. It's a couple of providers who always get mentioned, even if what the user is looking for doesn't fit, they get mentioned in a manner of minutes and people referred to them, even if there are objectively way way better offers elsewhere, these couple or one provider at a time is very heavily promoted on that subreddit seemingly as "comments", "positive reviews" etc. and it changes over time who it is at any particular time.
Now knowing reddit mods make their living off bribes ... Knowing this niche most "providers" don't even legally register their "businesses", even the big ones ... You draw your own conclusions.
oh and btw, a reddit moderator has approached me directly, blatantly asking for bribes. Directly, outright, without any euphemisms. That person told outright the reason he wants to be moderator is to collect bribes.
Very interesting insights in your post regarding the r/seedbox status. Care to share which providers you suspect of being behind this?
A lot of the providers do look sketchy. Haven't been following the space too much but the most legitimate looking ones to me are you, feral and maybe ultra.
At least my posts still have my account name on them... If one deletes their account, all the posts just lose their author.. That is messed up..
If that eventually happens to my account/posts, I will not be happy..
Reddit is not only blocking mullvad but also blocking so many IPs from so many vps providers. The best way is redirecting VPN through WARP in routing rules of VPN panel.
That is actually really interesting. Also shows what a bad admin can do, just completly making the whole subreddit dead. I'd bet it wasn't just you who got fucked - probably all providers he had a bad experience with or, more likely, that didn't pay him. Of course the decline in popularity might be partly due to the general decline in torrenting/seedbox knowledge, but I'd say that is fairly negligible. In the end, it just shows the sad reality of reddit. An unpaid mod needs some money because he (obviously) doesn't want to do lots of moderating work unpaid.
So, exitscam-seedboxes.net reaches out because they wouldn't be able to advertise here for example (missing register business, let's say they are just reselling ovh or whatever). He happily takes the bribe and, to do less work filters out sentences like "PulsedMedia is good/way better than exitscam-seedboxes.net" or "exitscam-seedboxes.net simply resell ovh" while happily keeping negative feedback on other hosts which make the threads seem more legit/active and also allude that only exitscam-seedboxes.net is good. He then needs money to buy his roblox girlfriend a gift, so he reaches out to various providers to do the same "contract" (aka easy-money-bribe).
"exitscam-seedboxes.net" counter: 4, would have expected more
It's also "blocked" for my vps, which I use for vpn. But at least they let you login, and then you're not blocked.
It's worse for imgur. Even if you login, they still block you (and they do block my vps/vpn). I use a redirect to a rimgo instance for imgur. For awhile even that didn't work, but there are a few that are ok now.
Yeah, it seems reddit at least has a community that wants those frontends. For imgur, well... I've even had my instance down for a month in the hope that imgur would un-block my ip... not the case. At least imgur works fine on firefox again. I remember the days when i.imgur.com would redirect to imgur.com which would redirect to imgur.io which wouldn't load.
Huh, this made me wanna buy Mullvad even more.
Just put cache: in front of the URL and you can generally see the posts content. You just won't be able to vote/post/comment.
The only site our IP space is blocked from is StackSocial.. They seem to be the only ones more difficult to get unblocked from than Walmart..