I was commenting on a Japanese sub to guide them to Lemmy and my comment becomes “[ Removed by Reddit ]” after a few seconds. Was this always the case?

  • 24Vindustrialdildo@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I imagine they are in damage control mode and are hoping to stem the outflow of users’ attention spans to the Lemmyverse while their current actions are the Current Thing.

    I reckon they are budgeting for a 1-2 week martial law period to try and stabilise and will probably force open all the closed subs and make use of repost and chatGPT bots to simulate decent engagement, possibly even paying for comments too.

    It would also be very interesting if they roll back on their censorship of open discussion of certain topics to attract back previously “resettled” users.

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      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t say “martial law”, but if they’re gearing up for their IPO then I wouldn’t be surprised if they take “harsh” measures to kick out uncooperative mods and force subs to reopen.