Shitty toilet paper buddy!

This is so fucked up.

This would have a bigger impact than a worm for sure. Hah!

Whoops, teaches me to read better. Better finish my coffee…

Wondering the consequences of reviving a 5000 year old worm species. I would imagine this would never make it back to the wild.

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

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.

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

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

Going through an app also prevents the awful redirects.

Reddit is picking a fight with the internet…

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.