Reddit just auto removed my comment with a link to Lemmy.ml
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
Granted to us by the guy who believed in jailbait as an expression of free speech
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.
Imma be real, this sounds like you're massively overestimating the amount of people that actually care about this whole thing. Yes, you'll probably get less content, but not enough to really matter for many people.
The casual reddit user would be back once their favorite subs are back online and will go about their day like before.
Maybe once the third party apps shut down and people really don't want to move to the official app you might get something.
I got no idea what would happen if enough mods quit, and a lot of subs couldn't run properly anymore. For the biggest subs you might get paid mods from reddit themselves, but no idea what will happen to the smaller subs.
The casual reddit user just lurks though. If the active users move, the quality of the site will go down (even more).
The % of people who care might be small, but it is that same tiny percentage who have the largest impact, and who are crucial to the smooth functioning of reddit.
If they all leave or get booted, reddit will noticeably change for the worse and a larger % of users will leave with them. I can only hope that the number of users fleeing to new platforms like Lemmy is sufficient to make them viable and strong alternatives.
If all the cool kids leave and set up shop elsewhere, reddit will be seen as outdated and people will start to leave it behind. Especially if Lemmy goes enough to gain unique new features/communities/traditions/memes/etc. Digg was abandoned so quickly in part because reddit was already there, complete with its own community, in-jokes, and sense of community for people to join in with and feel part of. Lemmy isn't there yet, but fingers crossed there are enough people involved now to have reached a critical mass that drives increased adoption.
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.
This is such a strange and surreal idea. Martial Law in the Internet. but I can see that actually happen.
It's funny, I used to be on BestofRedditorUpdates where almost any "good" story that got reposted was subject to arguments about whether it actually happened or if the OP made it up. Now with ChatGPT it can all be made up. /s
I'm convinced that the vast majority of r/askreddit threads, including the comments, have been copy/pasted for years
I've seen threads that are the same replies in the same order as they were in previous years. I know a lot of this is just people posting what they know will get them comment karma, but I have a hard time believing that sub is for real. It's such low quality, predictable content
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.
Reddit admins are just protecting lemmy.ml from being further overloaded!
In all seriousness, it's best to direct people to https://join-lemmy.org rather than any specific instance - the list of instances there is constantly being updated and can be used to spread out the load between different instances. Even so, your post would most likely still have been removed from Reddit, regardless of what specific Lemmy url you're posting.
Unfortunately according to my own experience that page is not exactly welcoming for new users. It's just not very clear what it is all about and confusing. The community list page on the other hand is easy to understand and the "Subscribers" stat is convincing.
A lot of people feel the same way. The good news is that there is work underway to imporve https://join-lemmy.org as we speak, hopefully new users will start seeing some improvements there soon!
I agree, that web page is awful and even as a generally tech-savvy person it steered me away from Lemmy. Only joined kbin after reddit banned it and I had a clear "join this thing, reddit doesn’t like it" sign.
While the ideal may be spreading users out across instances and federating, I think the fact is that reddit refugees probably just want to be directed to something popular they can join and get content from without hassle.
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.
It's not banned now (for what that's worth)
Interesting, I wonder if they’ve decided that the negative publicity of appearing to censor alternative platforms wouldn’t be worth it. Begs the question as to why they’re still apparently removing links to lemmy.ml if that’s the case though.
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) 😮
I wasn't too interested with what happens to reddit, but if this is the path they choose, I wish them a very fun streisand effect.
A very fitting Quote by JFK:
Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.
You might be able to circumvent an automatic filter by writing ‮lm.ymmel‬ - that should be rendered as ‮lm.ymmel‬
Care to explain for the uninitiated? I assume the code at the front and back are some sort of indicators to reverse the text?
U+202E and U+202C are control characters that change the direction of the text (see also https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1137:_RTL)
In order to be able to type them, you can use HTML entities: https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_symbols.asp
You can write any Unicode character like that, for example a becomes a.
Similar things happened when Twitter screwed the pooch and you'd mention Mastodon to people.
Elon's going to start suing u/spez for royalties
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.
Will emol.ink work? :D
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
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
If they actually do wind up forcibly reopening the dark subs and replacing the mods, good luck having to police "Lemmy" or "Tildes" spam on top of all the usual bot nonsense and trolling that goes on. Metal and Motorhead subs are about to get nuked as collateral damage.
Sad. Ummm, I just figured out how to link gifs...
To link a gif:
Maybe try pointing them to r/kbinmigration or r/lemmymigration
Twitter did the same with Mastodon links originally.
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.
Same. They shadow deleted a comment I made with a link to lemmy, I can still see it if I'm logged in though.
shadow deleting and banning is such an asocial thing to do, equal to shunning, a terrible practice.
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
Just noticed those fuckers actually banned pushshift, spez and his band of lowlifes sure don't want people to be able to see their meddling.
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.
Great stuff! I image they will have a hard time banning all instances.
join-lemmy.org might be better link to post, so people dont all go to one instance and might understand better how lemmy works
This is crazy. Can someone reproduce this behaviour?
This kind of censorship is concerning.