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Change the VPN location.
The point of having a VPN is to use many locations.
That won't matter. VPNs typically use a known set of IPs, and services like Reddit that are run by surveillance capitalism companies simply block those known ranges (see also YouTube, for example).
i tend to have pretty good luck swapping around with mullvad. eventually there's always one that works