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?
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 wosh we had an alternative site together, so as to avoid newcomers immediately seeing a) lemmygrad and b) that one NSFW instance that bills itself as “shota/loli/cub friendly”. That turns people away, understandably, especially because it’s not clear from the outset how easy you can avoid interacting with those instances at all, or that the rules and culture between instances can be totally different.
Downfall to the fediverse: You know what your friends see when they look into this stuff? Oh, wow, they use that site that has the pedos on it.
It’s a serious issue. Most people don’t and won’t understand the decentralized thing. When these come to light in the media, and stuff like this ALWAYS comes to light in the media, someone is gonna say at some point “Hey didn’t pigeon suggest that site to me once?”
I like using this as an intro guide:
https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/
Also I generally point people to lemmy.world if you want unrestricted access to everything, and beehaw if you want a tighter, more curated and family friendly experience.
Similar things happened when Twitter screwed the pooch and you’d mention Mastodon to people.
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.
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
Bots that repost comments definitely are a thing on Reddit, there evenwads a counter-bot (/u/replyguyboy) that exposed them.
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).
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.
I wouldn’t put it past them in an attempt to protect their IPO. It’ll be exposed almost immediately, but it’s not like an idea being terrible has stopped spez before.
AITA for wishing their IPO to be a complete failure ? Like, the stock dropping 90% on the first day ?
NTA. They’ve tried to screw us all for money and if there’s any justice in the world they’re about to find out what made their site so attractive to investors the hard way. Fuck ‘em.
/r/WallStreetBets will probably find a way to lay it to waste in the first ten minutes.
Thing is, the only people that lose at that point at the buyers, not reddit itself
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
URL shorteners are generally blocked and for good reason. They obscure the target, which in this case is intentional, but pretty much the only value on a site like this or reddit is to obscure.
URL shorteners are generally blocked and for good reason.
How so? I can get bit.ly being blocked in general as it’s commonly known but emol.ink for example is not. For all an unsuspecting reader knows that (emol.ink) could be an alternative to emojipedia.
Can any URL shortener be detected by Automod automatically with technical means, by checking for permanent redirects e.g.?
Or is some poor fella forced to maintain a static list of know URL shorteners the Automod uses? :D
I’m not saying Reddit knows about emol.ink, I’ve certainly never heard of it. But if Reddit admins realize that it is a URL shortener, they will throw it on the blocked domains list too.
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 wasn’t banned this morning on 3rd party apps (Infinity) 😮
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.
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.
Maybe try pointing them to r/kbinmigration or r/lemmymigration
You might be able to circumvent an automatic filter by writing
‮lm.ymmel‬- that should be rendered as lm.ymmelCare 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
abecomes a.
Ah, the free speech, how beautiful
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
Elon’s going to start suing u/spez for royalties
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.
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So a admin looked through my links in a few seconds and decided it was inappropriate? I mean… he must be a fast fapper
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hmm… I wonder how it works. The oldest post on lemmynsfw.com was just 3 days old. How do they determine which instance to ban?
Tried this, seems to be working! 😈
Ah so lemmynsfw is the trigger!
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.
