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?
Ah, the free speech, how beautiful
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.
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.
They banned the RedditAlternatives sub a few days ago. If it wasn’t the case before, it probably is now. This situation must be rattling some cages at Reddit regardless of what Spez said.
When did they do that? I tried just now and it’s not banned.
It was a few days ago, I’ve just been told it’s back online now.
It wasn’t banned this morning on 3rd party apps (Infinity) 😮
It’s clear that /u/spez is playing by Fellon Muskolini’s playbook. The problem (for them) is the existence of something called “Streisand effect”. Or, as Mahatma Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”
Reddit would be better if they just ignored posts pointing to Fediverse instances, but since they won’t, well… Their loss is our gain.
Use a URL shortener like bitly.
As a mod of a few big subs, that doesn’t really work either. Lots of us ban those on sight because of those stupid t-shirt bots.
The thing to do now is post it in an image. They can’t autodetect the text in the image . its possible for sure but they’re not spending money on that
Or just use an url shortener
Some people are rightly skeptical of shortened URLs due to malware etc. Also the point would be to show the name of the site. Probably users won’t click the link and scroll on but they will see the image.
makes sense!
Elon’s going to start suing u/spez for royalties
It’s possible they setup bots to scan links to lemmy and automatically remove them, if they’re really doing that, it means they’re scared.
going to grab more popcorn
I’m sure the automation just looks for keywords so pass the link through a url shortener and not say lemmy or beehaw in main text.
Can you still see the text of the original post? I mean, the text containing the link to lemmy
No, it just says “[ Removed by Reddit]”. link
So we cannot screenshot it, clever… We need to document this and make sure everyone knows what reddit is doing. Perhaps screenshotting the post before posting it, making sure to include the permalink can be an idea to demonstrate their censorship
We need to document this and make sure everyone knows what reddit is doing.
There’s been a lot of posts both here and on reddit saying that mentions of
kbinand/orlemmyget deleted or the users/subs get outright banned, like /r/redditMigration, which had 2 posts and got banned forspam.Regardless of the outcome of the strike, Reddit already has died. The users that matter won’t go back. The users that stay will be media and a large pool of lurkers with no value to the community.
Reddit as we knew it, already died.
Maybe try pointing them to r/kbinmigration or r/lemmymigration
Did you insert the actual hyperlink or just had Lemmy.ml as text?
I inserted 2 hyperlinks:
The link should be the trigger. My other comments with “Lemmy” in it was not removed.
Tried this, seems to be working! 😈
