I'm sure VPNs can be used. You would have to use a VPN, a new email address, and perhaps a different computer even. But honestly, I just don't care anymore. I'm content leaving reddit to their demons. I have had a few big accounts on there with hundreds of thousands of comment karma, a decade in age or more. I contributed insightful commentary on the site and ended up on r/bestof a dozen or more times. It's clear that they don't want people like me, or anyone with a nuanced opinion, to be on the site. They want to focus on tiktok style brain rot, because the MBAs that have taken over Silicon Valley have no original ideas beyond copying each other.

If you want to have nuanced and deep discussion on a site, you can't let your most prominent forums be taken over by unaccountable mods with an agenda (like r/worldnews) or operate with zero-thought zero-tolerance policies like r/politics. Your biggest political forum cannot operate on a philosophy of "any mention of violence is a permaban," when the presence of violence and discussion of it is a key part of our current political landscape.

They don't want real discussion anymore, if they ever did. They just want zero-tolerance, zero-thought moderation policies that are easy to enforce algorithmically but stifle real and nuanced discussion. And their site-wide admin an appeal process is completely worthless. They want their site to be a cesspool of teenagers post memes and nothing else. And if that is what they want, so be it. I'm done contributing to their bullshit. Reddit is far from the only discussion forum I've used. I was reddit, but before that digg. And before that, slashdot. And there comes a time when sites sometimes just get so up their own assholes chasing quick and easy money that the only correct choice is to just walk away in disgust.

One of the main reasons quality of content on the site has plummeted so much in recent years is they've likely banned or driven away many of their best commenters and posters. They want their site to be clickbait trash, and they simply aren't willing to put in the effort to make it a place to hold good discussions.