Same. Brave on Linux, no VPN. I didn't at face value care too much, as I find the site cancerous, but it did make me realize how many times I click links into it.

I can't wait until a worthy successor appears.

https://lemmy.world isn't as big and it doesn't have active subgroups for as many things as Reddit, but for a bit of casual doom scrolling it's fully replaced Reddit for me.

Just a guess, but are you in the UK and is /r/osint flagged NSFW, harmful or mature?

If so, they want to age-verify you.

Redlib typically has less aggressive restrictions: https://farside.link/redlib/r/OSINT/comments/1opjjyv/i_may_h...

(Farside.link just picks a random instance)

They ban VPNs unless you're logged in (and randomly shadowban users using them), and probably other datacenter IPs.