In the months since I deleted my Reddit accounts and joined Lemmy, the lack of user base growth has made it clear that we need some users to stay on Reddit as a means of shepherding more users over on an ongoing basis. Otherwise, Reddit simply got what it wanted: less users who make a fuss about how it manages its platform without losing users en-masse.
In doing so, however, does Reddit shadowban posts that mention or promote Lemmy? Googling mentions of Lemmy on Reddit mostly brings up posts from around the time of the blackout, suggesting that mentions of it since then have been suppressed. Before I return to Reddit to promote Lemmy, does anyone know for certain one way or the other?
Yes it would be nice to have more people on Lemmy to have more activity in the smaller communities, but otherwise I don’t think it’s so important.
No shadow ban, but auto-removal of the posts
My last post there (pointing the way to lemmy) still stands, un-shadowbanned and slightly upvoted since last I saw it. But it’s marked NSFW, as I guess the whole sub was set to at the time, which may be why it doesn’t show up in search.
Not reddit as a whole, it is individual moderators with the automod. My small community has a pinned lemmy link that is visible and the posts to the sub are restricted.
The Reddit admins have the lessons of Digg seared into their collective memory
I don’t know how frequently this happens, but my experience is that a link to a lemmy group was deleted by mods. It was very politely worded, and suggested and alternative community on Lemmy, and also noted that there’s no reason that somebody couldn’t read both communities. It was still deleted as “spam or self-promotion.”
That could just be a maturity issue with the mod who deleted it. It could also be that Reddit itself is doing it and simply said it was done by the mods of the group.
I have totally deleted all my Reddit contributions (still squatting on the username) and so I can’t really answer whether mentioning lemmy gets your comment shadow banned. We don’t really need more redditors, just need to wait for the first scandal and people will start googling “Reddit” alternatives (which ironically are all Reddit threads) and Lemmy is at the top of most of those lists. People should come here organically
Right? Personally, I want people who come here to care. Not the masses.
They definitely used to delete links to popular Lemmy instances. I posted a few as a test one time and found the comment to be shadow deleted. It looked like it existed to me, but if I logged out, I couldn’t see it. I wasn’t banned, though. Idk if this is still happening.
I know a comment of mine got deleted qhere I mentioned Lemmy, but that’s about it. I lost access to that account soon after and never made another one.
Random thought, do Lemmy posts show up in searches?
I’m pretty sure that’s how I ended up at reddit. After so many google searches lead me to the site, I decided to check it out some more
Does it shadowban mentions of Kbin/Mbin or Piefed too?
They don’t shadowban, but they’ll auto-remove comments mentioning it. I posted the Join Lemmy link in a comment a while back, and that comment was immediately updated to [removed by reddit].
This could be a automod setting that community admins can add. I’ve mentionned lemmy and didn’t get remived comments, I might try again
I’ve tested this on r/lemmy, and it still got removed.
“Removed by Reddit” implies admin action though.
I know for a fact some mods remove and ban for it, but I’ve been on reddit a long time and I remember seeing mods ban people over linking similar subs.
No lololol. You are using some weird form of techno Mormonism to justify your addiction. Jesus Christ.
That’s the funniest thing i read in a while. Sheparding people over here hahaha
