I don’t think this community is for travel questions. Maybe better to post/crosspost to !travel@lemmy.ml, !Travel@crazypeople.online, and/or !france@jlai.lu.

I call these the “2010’s platforms”:

Walled gardens where the walls are mainly the addiction and dependence they cause.

Though most are from before 2010, by the beginning of the decade, these started shifting to the bad design we have today.

And borrowing from an analysis I saw, iirc of power through economic mismamanegement, these platforms need to keep inflating their presence to keep being relevant. But the more they inflate, the more they need to keep inflating, else their castle of cards come crumbling.

But as cracks start to appear, which I’d interpret as them becoming so big their problems are too hard to ignore even for “normies”, or even the problems growing to that same result, people start jumping ship, and the platforms start panicking. But with these platforms having no concept of true relevance, then we get to the alienation as damage control.

IPs may be shared among users though. If another user tried the same but made a previous, blacklisted IP visible, he may have tarnished one of the VPN IPs too.

About what’s Reddit’s intention, I can only conjecture, but I get the impression they are intentionally self-sabotaging. And trying to think who or how someone would benefit from this, the only thing that comes to mind is that they’re destroying the legacy of the biggest public forum.

This, extrapolating, would potentially force people to go to platforms that require accounts, which sounds even more suspicious when considering the verification laws and policies that are increasingly being pushed since around October last year.

About VPN, Reddit apparently does IP bans and automatically considers a new account made in a same IP of a banned account as an evasion attempt, which given VPNs, spreads like a disease, like they’re setting up a digital pandemic - or should I say “a plandemic”.

Ani.Social being a Lemmy instance.

Also sadly that requires having an account. Also, PieFed iirc has curated feeds, something Lemmy copying wouldn’t be half bad, I think.

About defaulting to subscriptions, there actually is a way through the settings:

Alternatively, intentionally loosen the precautions, at least at first, seeing how the system ticks. Then, when things start getting unstable, make a new clean install of the system and do it all over again, but with the previous issues already in mind so you can avoid them.

Iirc there’s a saying that only those who fall know how to stand up. If you can afford the time investment, it’s a golden opportunity to learn.

Reddit’s community, as in the whole, feels like it plays by some unwritten rules where straying just a bit from those causes maximum persecution. And though I understand each platform has a culture, including here on the fediverse, Reddit’s I don’t feel like culture either.

About adressing your fediverse concerns, I second the idea of curating your experience by blocking, subscribing, and manually looking the community list as needed. Furthermore, I’d also suggest keeping an eye on where the posts that cause you to be annoyed come from, since those not uncommonly come from the same places.

Reddit is so rigid about ban evasions that you could say it never forgets. Best I could suggest you already did, to make an appeal, so now all you can do is wait. But since I haven’t heard of anyone recovering theirs, I’d not hold my breath to have a solution any year soon (intentionally swapped “time” for “year”).

And while not ideal, I’d suggest using RSS-tracking bots here on the fediverse to follow subreddits (every subreddit has an RSS feed), and comment on the bot’s posts instead. Would also tackle the concern from Ani.Social’s administration of such bots having too little engagement to justify their presence now that the fediverse has a healthy active userbase.

DLsite allows users to translate their manga, paying a commission to the translators when people get the translated version. If availability, or lack thereof, is the problem, it could work too.

Greetings! Hope you like your stay!

If you’d like to also explore options, there’s Mastodon for followinf Twitter-like posts (and also PixelFed, NeoDB, WordPress, etc.), Friendica and Mbin for following both Twitter and Reddit-like posts, and PieFed as a direct alternative to Lemmy specifically.

And tip, Lemmy has a native per-post, post-hiding feature, at the 3 dots of a given post. Mastodon has too, and most softwares I’ve tested work well with Ublock Origin filters and/or scripts for hiding posts (e.g. if liked/disliked).

Also if you watch on browsers, there’s @birb@rss-parrot.net (not compatible with Lemmy specifically though)

Grayjay mainly. PipePipe which still works for me (check if yours is updated) to get individual RSS or channel links.

I’d try keeping requests to a minimum, like with putting everything to download and watching those instead (e.g. with yt-dlp or Grayjay’s Watch Later playlist set to auto-download), using RSS on another device/IP (e.g. with a VPS, @birb@rss-parrot.net on Mastodon or a phone/Raspberry Pi on another connection) then forwarding over to your main device, avoiding requesting all subscriptions in a row (e.g. Grayjay’s Subscription tab or having a too aggressive refresh/fetch setting on an RSS reader), rebooting your phone when issues start (if it’s a cache/memory leak issue), and/or using a VPN and changing servers as needed.

I’d need to check how long the validation lasts, since it may be well be like emulated PS1 games from the PSN (“PSOne Classics”) and Steam’s offline mode, both that take a few years to reset, but neither permanent.

But about people complaining, they usually do so only for problems that are obvious to them. And the obvious is usually immediate.

And if it takes a few months/years to expire, I’d say it is not ethical, but pretty vile, as then people will not notice the problem at first, and when they do, they may no longer access their contents.

And considering people that forgot to upgrade their original Mojang accounts, or didn’t have access to the needed tools while the change to Microsoft accounts happened, there is a precedent for Minecraft validation methods to not become available any longer.

Also, from my experience with Windows Vista, where even though I have an actually original key for it, if I try to install Vista nowadays and try to connect it to the internet, it will lock the whole system from my access on the next start-up, I’d imagine because it can’t reach the validation servers. So I’ve seen first hand how Microsoft’s preservation goes over several years. And since Minecraft may also be used online due to multiplayer, checks may still happen, and being nowadays also a Microsoft product, it may suffer from the same vices of origin.

Login to access the contents afaik is still DRM, even if it takes more steps.

Afaik, the Java version is only accessible with an account, 3rd party launchers potentially being considered cracking means. Bedrock version is tied to its platforms’ DRMs, like Win10’s Microsoft Store validation and a hard-to-access folder which changing permissions is a nightmare, and Google Play Services’ validation on Android.

As for console versions, major consoles have DRM to their games by default, with a case like PS Vita games even requiring the user to create a dummy validation file by launching the game once to be able to use backups (also iirc all Vita cartridges have a self-explanatory gro0:/DRM/ folder). And as for cartridge overall, be them Nintendo’s, Sony’s, etc., being hard to access their contents due to using non-standard could be considered DRM, and some cases formally considering as in the DMCA.

So sounds to me like it has DRM in most versions, yeah.

Starbound and Terraria come to mind. Also Planet Centauri and maybe Stardew Valley.

Also Minecraft if a DRM-free version other than the Pi Edition (which is abandoned) ever comes.

Oh, boy

Favorite gameplay genre of mine probably =D

About Lemmy.ml specifically, iirc it is communist so posts and users will generally go that way.

But this brings a point, each instance has a culture or scope, and so some frustations may come from specific instances, requiring you to keep an eye for that too.