Warning: Reddit is shadowbanning people for talking about Lemmy. Picture related.

One of us! One of us! Welcome!

is there a list of the top communities here?

Got you covered! This site is a godsend to find new cool comms to follow. Make sure to click on that house icon and put lemmy.world there, so the links send you to the right place.

I just got shadow banned for commenting on a political meme literally ‘welcime to Trump’s america’ boom eleven year account shadowbab that day I think I got reported.

Ah, Reddit... why would it be honest with its own users, and treat them as rational human beings? Gaslighting all the way down!

Sadly, yes.

Not gonna lie, I was only there to encourage people to get off Reddit.

What the fuck is a Reddit?

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I see these characters and I immediately think of the @yiffit user lol

And using different combinations of the letters too

RIP ;_;7

They're really trying to repeat the fate of Digg, aren't they? People would advertise the shit out of Reddit in Digg, to encourage users to move. Well - perhaps we should test if history does repeat itself.

I was always one of the people that cycled an account every few months. Wish I didn't so that I could have used one of those tools though.

if that's the captcha to get in... i'm out.

Blaze has said that using this website is pretty hit or miss for new users

I don't regret being banned from the fly [Reddit] licking the Nazi shit [Twitter]. But I think it's important for people advertising Lemmy there to know.

OMG, Nazi Digg. Can I borrow that?

Text as pictures, word-of-mouth, bugging people in Youtube referring to Reddit to use Lemmy instead, coded languages...

It’s just bots enforcing this, images should work.

Im sure there’d be a huge market for Lemmy if you just told people “do you want Reddit without ads or conservatives?”

Honestly all it took for me was "reddit with no ads" and I was on faster than you can say Lenin

Whenever I see someone asking about or speculating that users need somewhere else to go... I direct-message them and give them links to https://feddit.org/search and encourage them to make a login on some instance...

So far it doesn't seem reddit is snooping on direct messages ... yet

I have no idea why I was shadowbanned and you weren't, then. Perhaps account age and/or karma had a role? (My account was five days old, and barely any karma.)

Yes, it is a shadowban. It fits perfectly what you said: the posts and comments are filtered and hidden from the others.

Here is another proof that this is a shadowban:

Left: the content is shown to the user when they're logged in, and they can still submit new content.

Right: the content is not shown to someone who is logged off.

On the other hand, a typical suspension leaves the content visible for everyone else, it tells the user "you've been permanently suspended from Reddit [insert gaslighting message]", and the user cannot submit new content.

Note that a shadowban is considerably worse than a suspension. Not that I care, though - I'm sharing this here because it is relevant for people trying to convince others to migrate to the Fediverse.

Can you link it here? I've never heard of this analysis

The biggest hope I have is those that migrate over leave the reddit jokes on reddit. We don't need a million comments about the guy with broken arms, swamps of dagobah, poop knife et al. flooding lemmy.

i think it takes get permabanned to actually come here, they are addicted to reddit, simply because of all the trump trash worldnews/political post there, and news is like a narcotic, because these 2 genre, and adjacent subs are almost always on the front page. even the salty r/conservative is on the front page alot. the permaban people that are constantly evading bans are usually the ones trying to earn a living through OF, or advertising by posting en masse, usually with the help of privacy browsers, proxies, new devices,,etc. funny how reddit is only going after them any evader aggressively, but doing nothing about the troll farm bots.

Get the sims community started on Lemmy. Try to convince some people to join

did they say you reported too much? on several accs, i had either a temp ban from that sub, or instant lecture from a mod, saying "you cant report this person, just because you dont like his comment" i was thinking then, what is a reportable offense, like its spamming/botting, isnt that reportable, like do you want me to engage and argue, which makes its worst?. my most recent one which got me the recent ban was "you can report this much in this sub, and we think you are "brigading" so we are temporarily banning you sitewide, which triggered the sites AI bot to ban multiple accounts sitewide without giving a reason. how can you say you are fighting botting/spamming from countries like RU when your MODS, and admins are banning the reporter. turns out your site needs the RU bots, simply because they make close to half of comments and engagement in certain communities.

left side: logged in. exists.

right side: private window, not logged in. does not exist.

It's just like adarza said.

Left: logged in. My own activity is shown.
\ Center: logged out, old reddit. It claims that the user doesn't exist.
\ Right: logged out, new reddit. It claims that the user was suspended.

A shadow ban is where they didn't tell you that you were banned. A shadow banned user could go for years commenting and posting and never realised they were banned. It's only if they check their posts while logged out that they realise.

it means nobody can see your comments or posts, its the result of a redditor that was making multiple accounts and evading bans 10+years ago. it tricks you into thinking you "arnt banned, or comments removed" this way reddit doesnt advertise to the bots, user that they are banned.

you can also check if your shadowbanned/ incognito, if you look at any redditors profile. usually with typing in reddit dot com /user/[your account name]

Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: (​)

And odds are that the admins are basically running some glorified version of AutoMod, so fucking with their regex would work nicely. I'll try this next account, thank you! (Also adding it to the OP)

Interesting, I see’s it

(Believe it or not I actually wouldn’t have checked if you hadn’t mentioned)

but i suspect that the post wasn’t shown to much people

That's shadowbanning, fyi

Woah...Reddit is anti-Canada? Honestly Reddit has always given me bad vibes, and from the sounds of things it's just getting worse...

Wait how high am I? The example on top returns a length one higher than the example on bottom, because it has a non-printable character in there right?

I'd just post something like:

I'll be shadowbanned for posting an actual link or mentioning the full name, but if you google "Lem reddit alternative" you'll get a lot of hits directing you the good place. Good luck, and see ya on the other side!

If it weren't working your code wouldn't count an additional character on the first string.

Anyway, this is the character., as it seems that deleting the first parenthesis also deletes the ZWJ.

thats actually new thing to me, i have seen alot of the famous subs have upped thier filters, i avoid them by filtering out those subs from my feed. also people might make a mistake by accidentally commenting on the sub they were ban years ago, apparently the filters doesnt discrminate or clear itself once your bans are lifted or years old.