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.