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?
You might be able to circumvent an automatic filter by writing
‮lm.ymmel‬- that should be rendered as lm.ymmelAh, the free speech, how beautiful
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 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.
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.
Elon’s going to start suing u/spez for royalties
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.
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!
