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?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Could make use of Unicode lookalike letters (е and у in this case) to write Lemmy as Lеmmу.

[–] vala 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I honestly doubt that works. If Reddit really has a blacklist of keywords it's almost certainly accounting for this kind of thing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Honestly, no. People are pretty bad at filtering for Unicode alternative characters. It can be worked around when the site admins understand what's going on, but...have fun skimming all of the Unicode code pages for every possible lookalike character.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Its their job to do this but I think OP is right, we need to try. As much as it sucks, marketing is important to succeed in the long run. Not trying to get the whole of reddit in here but if they can manage to not talk about us we would have a problem I believe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

If Reddit really has a blacklist of keywords it's almost certainly accounting for this kind of thing.

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