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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[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think the reality is that no one on Reddit gives a shit about Lemmy. I used to see if my comments were being deleted by a mod by opening the permalink in a private browser window. I don't know if admin removal has a more complicated way of masking it or not.

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

I think the reality is that no one on Reddit gives a shit about Lemmy

I wouldn't be so sure:

[–] Temperche@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/143diuj/reddit_temporarily_ban_subreddit_and_user/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36215914

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Right? Personally, I want people who come here to care. Not the masses.