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?

  • Gurfaild@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    You might be able to circumvent an automatic filter by writing ‮lm.ymmel‬ - that should be rendered as ‮lm.ymmel‬

  • 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.

    • Poopfeast420@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • InnominateUser@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        Agreed. I’m definitely waiting in anticipation of the end of the month to see what happens. Regardless, lemmy is my new home. Fediverse is just a great concept, looking forward to it maturing.

        • Poopfeast420@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          Depending on how everything works out, I don’t think I can move over to lemmy completely just yet. There are a ton of smaller communities, that are still missing here and might never move over.

          For a lot of topics, especially specific games, there’s often some Discord server, but I really don’t like using Discord.

          What I definitely try to change is stop the mindless doomscrolling I did too much on Reddit, and just check specific subs occasionally.

    • macniel@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      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.

        • GreyBeard@lemmy.one
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          1 year ago

          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.

          • GenericUsername@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            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

            • GreyBeard@lemmy.one
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              1 year ago

              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.

  • macniel@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • throwaway@monero.town
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    1 year ago

    Same. They shadow deleted a comment I made with a link to lemmy, I can still see it if I’m logged in though.

    • macniel@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      shadow deleting and banning is such an asocial thing to do, equal to shunning, a terrible practice.