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?
The thing to do now is post it in an image. They can’t autodetect the text in the image . its possible for surebiut 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!
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
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
&becomes a.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Elon’s going to start suing u/spez for royalties
Sad. Ummm, I just figured out how to link gifs…
To link a gif:
join-lemmy.org might be better link to post, so people dont all go to one instance and might understand better how lemmy works
Maybe try pointing them to r/kbinmigration or r/lemmymigration
Similar things happened when Twitter screwed the pooch and you’d mention Mastodon to people.
Ah, the free speech, how beautiful
Granted to us by the guy who believed in jailbait as an expression of free speech
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 wasn’t banned this morning on 3rd party apps (Infinity) 😮
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.
