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?

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 years ago

    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

  • femboy_link.mp4@beehaw.org
    4·
    3 years ago

    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.

  • 24Vindustrialdildo@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    3 years 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.

    • kahnclusions@programming.dev
      3·
      3 years ago

      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.

    • KahunaDaKine@startrek.website
      1·
      3 years ago

      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

  • KahunaDaKine@startrek.website
    1·
    3 years ago

    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.

  • Anarch157a@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    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.