When I search for “PieFed” on DuckDuckGo, I get the expected results. https://join.piefed.social/ is the first one, of course.

On Google, the first result leads to a 403, and the second one is a Reddit discussion. https://join.piefed.social/ is nowhere to be seen.

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

Me as well. I wonder if it only fails in some geolocations, or conversely if OP is using a VPN that some anti-AI scraper feature has blocked the IP range in.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Regular Vodafone Internet. No VPN.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    So weird. The only thing I know about networking is that the answer always turns out to be DNS (/s... I think? hrm, perhaps it really is the case? :-P)

    Maybe someone else "near" you (in the IP sense) used a similar address that triggered blocking of the entire range that includes you.

    Either way you could try playing around with a VPN, making sure to set it to a variety of different geolocations?

    But the fact that it sometimes works - for many of us - while sometimes not working, for others, is definitely odd.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's not really the point of my post. This site isn't officially related to PieFed and shouldn't be the first result of a search engine.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Fair, though Rimu already addressed that (his anti-AI scraping countermeasures likely caused that), so I was offering the additional fact that the site worked for me rather than generating a 403 error as it did for you, and a way to further test why that error came about.

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